While the Transformers had adventures in their Marvel comic, and even the British version of Gobots, Robo Machine, had a superb strip in the pages of Eagle, the closest American Gobots fans got to a comic was the quarterly Gobots Magazine from Telepictures Publishing, available only through mail-order subscription.

This was, as the name suggests, more of a magazine than a comic. For a quarterly, there isn't really much content - a five page strip is joined by articles on semi-related topics (generally any vaguely sci-fi films that were out and articles on synthesizers), a letters' page, the 'Ask Leader-1' letters-page style feature, a poster and some cheap quizzes, plus lots of big adverts for Tonka toys. The strips themselves are distinctly average, and the whole thing's a bit cheap, with the exception of the nicely-done covers, painted by Paul Mangiat (which were all details from the A3 poster in the centre pages).

The Gobots Magazine only managed five issues, from Winter 1986 to Winter 1987. The last issue had a cover letter informing subscribers of the cancellation.