Trivia / Death's Head (Marvel Comics)

• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Collected editions and digital comics mean that as of 2022, almost all of the Death's Head stories are, finally, easily available, including The Body in Question Marvel UK graphic novel, the 2019 series, most of the 1988 series, most guest appearances and his 'death' in the first Death's Head II series.
  • As of June 2023, all stories featuring licensed characters are omitted from reprints and digital editions - which covers his initial guest appearances in Transformers and Doctor Who Magazine. The Doctor guest starred in one issue of the 1988 series, which is also unavailable as a digital comic and hasn’t been reprinted since the original licensing agreement ended.
  • The original reprint of the 1988 series, The Incomplete Death's Head included some new framing sequences which are no longer available. These mostly focus on Death's Head II rather than the original character.
• What Could Have Been: As per Marvel UK editor John Freeman, licensing arrangements for the Marvel UK Transformers comic mean that if Marvel hadn't secured copyright beforehand, Death's Head might have been Hasbro property. He might still have been able to make guest appearances in other comics, and might even have been allowed a solo title - but, like Rom: Spaceknight, he would then have been erased from the Marvel Universe, Exiled from Continuity and, potentially, rebooted as part of the IDW shared universe for the Hasbro characters.
• Word of God from Simon Furman is that his Verbal Tic is modelled on a Real Life British politician, though he's refused to reveal who it is.

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