Showdown!



Donny Finkleberg tries to escape from Ravage, and gets some help from Skids and a new friend.

=Marvel US issue #20= (Story also appears in: Marvel UK issues #72-73)

Script: Bob Budiansky Pencils: Herb Trimpe Inks: Ian Akin and Brian Garvey Lettering: Janice Chiang Colors: Nelson Yomtov Editor: Michael Carlin


 * Major characters (in order of appearance): Ravage, Donny Finkleberg, Skids, Charlene, Jake Dalrymple
 * Originally published: September, 1986

Synopsis
Donny Finkleberg is on the run from the Decepticons. By ditching his Robot Master costume and changing to civilian camping clothes, he evades Ravage long enough to make it to civilization. Meanwhile, Skids is found and repaired by Charlene, who quickly adopts him as her own vehicle. Jake Dalrymple also finds Skids, and seeks revenge against him for denting Dalrymple's fender earlier (as if having Skids blasted by a hostile missle wasn't enough!). When Finkleberg learns about a talking van, he goes looking to what he knows must be an Autobot for help. He finds Skids and Charlene just in time to escape from Ravage yet again. While Skids, Charlene, and Finkleberg flee from Ravage, Dalrymple chases after Skids yet again. They eventually find themselves in an abandoned mining town, and Dalrymple knocks Skids out by breaking his windshield with a crowbar. While Skids recovers, Ravage attacks. Dalrymple, finally realizing that others may be harmed by his actions, wrecks his own expensive car to knock Ravage off balance. Even this sacrifce proves not to be enough, but Skids recovers in time to send Ravage plummeting down an abandoned mine shaft, from which he won't be able to escape for quite some time. Skids decides to leave Charlene and take Finkleberg to the rest of the Autobots.

Errors

 * Although he is depicted as such here, Skids is not a van, but a much smaller Honda City Turbo (a vehicle virtually unknown in the United States).

Items of note
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