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| company_type = Comic publisher
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| defunct =
| founder = Brian Savage <ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-savage-2555b311</ref>
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| location = Fort Worth, Texas
| industry = Comics<br> Fan club organizing
| homepage = [http://www.fpcomics.com Official website]
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'''Fun Publications''' was a publishing company that runs the [[Transformers]] Collectors Club and [[G.I. Joe]] Collectors Club under license from [[Hasbro]]. Besides releasing comics, Fun Publications releases exclusive toys and runs conventions for their clubs.

Fun Publications also publishes a serial comic distributed as part of the official Transformer's Collector's Club magazine. There are six pages to the comic in each magazine, which together "make one complete story arc" by the end of the year with 36 pages in six months. <ref>http://www.transformersclub.com/tfbenefits.cfm</ref> The full strips from the first two years were distributed by IDW as ''Transformers Cybertron: Balancing Act''. The 2010 story is called "The Coming Storm" and follow after the events of the 2009 Timelines story. <ref>http://www.bsckids.com/2010/03/transformers-club-magazine-comic-preview/</ref>

In addition to releasing comic books and magazines, Fun Publications ''Timelines'' series has also produced prose stories, licensed toys and video media.

== Reception ==
The Timelines Landquake toy proved extremely popular. <ref>{{Cite book|title=Transformers: The Fantasy, The Fun, The Future|last=Brereton|first=Erin| year=2006|publisher=Triumph Books|ISBN=1-57243-983-1|page=60}}</ref> Critics of the comic have said that the stories play directly to the fans of the Transformers conventions and stories centre around the toys being introduced each year. <ref>[http://www.comixology.com/reviews/view/1174/Transformers-Timelines-Fall-Special-Generation-2-Redux] Transformers: Timelines Fall Special Generation 2 Redux, Review by BW Media, Thursday, December 2, 2010,</ref>

== History ==
=== 2005 ===
After the Transformers convention license was acquired by Fun Publications, they issued a new series called ''Transformers: Timelines'', a series of stand-alone tales. The first comic was released in 2005 with a story called "Descent into Evil", starring a group of updated classic Autobots and new characters fighting the evil forces of [[Deathsaurus]] and his [[Insecticons]]. As would follow with each year's story, some of the characters appearing would be released as exclusive figures at Botcon. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bwtf.com/comicbooks/funpub/descent/|title=Fun Publications "Descent into Evil"|publisher=BWTF|date=2009-02-28|accessdate=2010-12-12}}</ref>

=== 2006 ===
Their 2006 BotCon tale, "Dawn of Future's Past", acts as a [[prequel]] to the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers|Beast Wars]]''; and was distributed by Diamond in November 2006.

=== 2007 ===
A sequel to the Marvel Comics Generation 1 story called "Games of Deception" was the centrepiece for the 2007 comic. The story centred around the Decepticon Bug Bite's attempt to take over the Decepticon forces of Megatron. This story features the ''Transformers: Classics'' toy line as well as this year's Botcon exclusive toys. <ref>http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=headlines&page=1456</ref> The text story ''Wreckers: Finale Part II'' was also released. <ref>{{cite book|author=Greg Sepelak & S. Trent Troop|title=Wreckers: Finale Part II|publisher=Fun Publications|others=Illustrator Guido Guidi, Colorist Drew Eiden|year=2007}}</ref>

=== 2008 ===
The 2008 comic "Shattered Glass" takes place in the "Shattered Glass" universe, in which ''Classics'' [[Cliffjumper]] is hurled into an alternate reality where the Decepticons are heroic while the Autobots are evil tyrants. <ref>{{cite comic|colorist=Espen Grundetjern|date=Botcon 2008|editor=Pete Sinclair & Brian Savage|inker=Don Figueroa|issue=3|letterer=Jesse Wittenrich|penciller=Don Figueroa|publisher=Fun Publications|story=Shattered Glass|title=Transformers Timelines|volume=2|writer=Pete Sinclair & Benson Yee}}</ref> The text story "Gone Too Far" was also published.

=== 2009 ===
The story released for Botcon 2009, called "Wings of Honor" was set millions of years ago on Cybertron, a prequel to the Sunbow animated series. This story featured the Autobot veteran [[Kup]] in early days, as well as the club membership exclusive figure Dion. The text story "Eye in the Sky" is released, set on Shattered Glass Earth.

=== 2010 ===
The 2010 Timelines comic called "Generation 2 Redux" was among the top 25 sold small publisher comics in November 2010. <ref>http://www.comicsbeat.com/resources/sales-charts/diamond-top-25-small-publisher-comics-november-2010/</ref> This story featured a new generation of Autobot and Decepticons made on Earth led by the Autobot Spark and the Decepticon Clench. <ref>{{Cite comic|writer=Greg Sepelak & Trent Troop|penciller=Robby Musso|inker=Robby Musso & Frank Milkovich|story=Generation 2: Redux|title=Transformers Timelines|volume=2|issue=5|date=Summer, 2010|publisher=Fun Publications|location=Fort Worth, Texas}}</ref>

=== 2011 ===
2011 saw the introduction of a ''[[Transformers: Animated]]'' continuation storyline, "The Stunti-Con Job", featuring an attempt by the ''Animated'' Stunticons to rescue Megatron from [[Trypticon]] Prison.

=== 2012 ===
2012 centred around "Invasion," a story in which the "Shattered Glass" [[Ultra Magnus (Shattered Glass)|Ultra Magnus]] launched an invasion of the "Classics" universe.

=== 2013 ===
In 2013 "[[Machine Wars]]: Termination" centered around a post-Generation 2 story in which ''[[Beast Machines]]'' characters [[Obsidian (Transformers)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika]] lead a strike against [[Jhiaxus]]' [[Predacons]].

=== 2014 ===
"Hoist the Flag" featured the new [[Knights of Cybertron]] battling the evil [[Star Seekers]].

=== 2015 ===
"Cybertron's Most Wanted" centred around a group of criminals in the multiversal hub of [[Axiom Nexus]].

=== 2016 ===
For their final year, Fun Publications teamed with [[IDW Publishing]] to produce storyline surrounding ''[[Transformers: Dawn of the Predacus]]'', a prelude to ''[[Beast Wars]].''

=== 2018 ===
The company presented the last G.I.Joe Collectors Club Convention in Chattanooga Tennessee at the end of June.

==References==
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[[Category:Comic book publishing companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Fun Publications]]
[[Category:Transformers (franchise)]]

Fun Publications - Revision history