Daily Bugle

You really think a newspaper would tell lies?

The Daily Bugle is a great metropolitan New York City newspaper headed by Joe Robertson, the new Editor-in-Chief.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Soundwave was aware of a primitive form of communication called the Daily Bugle, and in particular an edition, dated February 7, 1984, that reported on the sudden eruption of Mount St. Hilary in Oregon–an eruption which, unbeknown to the general public, had reawakened the Ark and restarted the conflict between the dormant Autobots and Decepticons.^[1]

Joe Robertson sent Daily Bugle photographer Peter Parker to Oregon to cover the appearance of the strange robots who had raided the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant. Because of his experience in taking photographs of the mysterious Spider-Man, Robertson felt that Parker would be able to get some exclusive photos for the Bugle. Prisoner of War!

The Bugle ran a front page story about G.B. Blackrock and his intent to unveil a weapon designed to destroy Transformers. General Capshaw had a copy in hand when he went to berate Blackrock that the giant invading robots were a matter of national security. DIS-Integrated Circuits!

On Saturday September 12, 1985, the Bugle's headline news story was "GIANT ROBOTS ON RAMPAGE! Invasion from Space". Professor Morris used the article as part of a presentation to his employers to demonstrate that the press had convinced everyone that the Transformers weren't merely robotic creations controlled by G.B. Blackrock. They didn't buy it. The Icarus Theory

Notes

• The Daily Bugle edition discussed by Soundwave and a reader on his letters page is a full page supplement printed in Marvel UK's Secret Wars #9. The oblique reference made to Transformers is only a small part of the page, which is instead focused on Secret Wars-relevant plot points like the disappearance of Tony Stark and the apparent demise of Doctor Doom. Not being a Transformers publication, the issue and feature fall outside the purview of TFWiki.net... but we can cover that Soundwave mentioned it, and the letter writer helpfully transcribed the whole thing for Transformers readers.
• In the real world, September 12, 1985 was totally not a Saturday.

References

External links

• Daily Bugle at Wikipedia
• Daily Bugle at Marvel Database