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.

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
Two other series followed the original, but they dealt with different versions of the character. It's important to list these later runs here, but only for clarification. The later titles have nothing do with the DWU whatsoever. Death's Head II, which was the last gasp of the character at Marvel UK. Death's Head would be resurrected again in 2005 within the mainstream Marvel US universe, as Death's Head 3.0, but there's no clear link between this version of the character and the Marvel UK one, save for the fact that it's created by Simon Furman.