"The Flames of Boltax!" the Transformers#48 (January 1989) with credits to Bob Budiansky (script), Jose Delbo (pencils), Danny Bulanadi (inks), Nel Yomtov (colors), Bill Oakley (letters), and Don Daley (editor)
We open with Buster being stalked by weird aliens who eventually gun him down. He's fine though, as the whole thing was just Ratbat testing his latest toy, Realvision! Starscream announces they found the Autobot tapes that Blaster spat out last time.
They slap the tapes into the Realvision and find themselves viewing the past, back when Optimus was a mere lieutenant commander instead of the leader. Optimus tangles with Megatron and the Triggercons (new toy shilling at its finest). Optimus ends up badly wounded but he succeeds as he causes the Underbase (what he and Megatron were fighting for) to blast off into space.
Ratbat crunches the numbers and he discovers that, according to the trajectory plus time, then the Underbase should be entering Earth's system sometime by next week! Buster, having watched all this via a rather large air vent in his cell, vows to warn the Autobots but he's quickly discovered by the rest of the Decepticons.
Well, the continuity is all over the place and yeah, awfully convenient that they happened to listen to those tapes and they just happen to let them know about the Underbase.
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