Bombshell (sex symbol) of the blurbs on posters was "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom." Hollywood soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the blonde bombshell. Some of the movie stars, largely of the 1940s–1960s, referred to as bombshells include Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth
Bombshell (Transformers) book called "Battle Drive" by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel. Bombshell appeared in the 1986 Ballantine Books story "The Invisibility Factor" by Josepha Sherman. Bombshell appeared in the Marvel Books 1986 story and coloring book "The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp" by Pat Brigandi. Bombshell also appeared in Dreamwave Productions' Generation One comics. He chronologically appeared first in the "War Within" comics hunting Optimus Prime alongside Soundwave and Ravage. Their failure forced Megatron to step in personally. He later stayed with the Decepticons after Megatron's disappearance. His Cybertronian alternate mode appeared to be that of a tank. In the third