Volume 8 collects Transformers Universe #1–4, all character biographies from TF issues #47–49, 56–72, and 74–79, plus G.I. JOE and the Transformers #1–4. Also includes issues notes by Mark W. Bellomo.

The first Transformers series. Starting out as a mini-series, it became very popular and lasted for 80 issues. Transformers 2 years later he returned to Marvel Comics in the less successful Transformers: Generation 2 comic series. The series now goes back to IDW Transformers: Regeneration of a series of issue 81