Did the US have any magazines that could compete with Canada's "The Transactor"?

I saw

a lot and

a little. I didn’t have a 64 though (though I did get a 128 in 1993) and read

instead.

Micro the 6502 Journal was really good.

Early issues of BYTE are quite informative

Early COMPUTE! were also a bit more technical

Creative Computing kinda varied a lot but had some great bits in it.

I remember the Amiga Transactor. It was way more technical than most magazines of the time.