Death's Head (1988)

Death's Head (1988) was a 1988 American comic book-style series published by Marvel Comics UK. It featured the exploits of a robotic mercenary character named Death's Head. The first of the Marvel titles to bear the name Death's Head, it is sometimes imprecisely called Death's Head I for casual clarity, even though it is technically the only Death's Head title to bear the indicia name of simply Death's Head.

It is of interest to the DWU because it featured two stories in which the title character met the Seventh Doctor. It is of interest to the Marvel Universe because it — largely by implication — turns at least the Seventh Doctor into a character within the MU.

Title history
Created by Simon Furman, Death's Head had debuted in the MarveL UK Transformers series, and then made his way into the Doctor Who Magazine strip, as well as the prefiguring Dragon's Claws, which led immediately to this solo title. It ran for ten issues, then ended on a cliffhanger due to Marvel US' decision to radically curtail Marvel UK's activities. Despite the reduction in UK-based creative staff, the storyline of this series was resolved in a Marvel UK graphic novel called Death's Head: The Body in Question.

Other Death's Head titles
It's important to distinguish this series from two other, following series.
 * Death's Head II was the last gasp of the character at Marvel UK. However, it featured a new version of Death's Head.  The original Death's Head was a part of the new, gestalt character.
 * Death's Head would be resurrected again in 2005 within the mainstream Marvel US universe, as Death's Head 3.0, in a mini-series of the same name. Though this is the version of the character probably most familiar to modern US comic fans, there is no clear narrative link between 3.0 and versions I and II.  However, like all versions of Death's Head, 3.0 was created by Simon Furman.

Additionally, there's a completely different Death's Head which originated at Marvel US. But this Death's Head was a pretty minor obscure from a 1969 Daredevil comic books. The term "Death's Head" as it relates to comics is usually interpreted today as meaning one of the Simon Furman creations.