Karl Hartman

Karl Hartman may be the tallest being involved in Transformers who isn't fictional.

Karl and his brother Jon wrote numerous Transformers pieces for publications like Lee's throughout the 90's. They started BotCon back in 1994, so you're welcome. They also used to have possibly the largest and most diverse collection of loose and packaged Transformers products in the US, but at BotCon 2006 sold off vast swaths of it to pay for things like homes and marriages and whatnot. You know. Stupid grown-up stuff.

Karl is currently a member of Fun Publications' Official Transformers Collectors' Club "advisory board".