Yeah, I totally agree with this. I don't like TFs to be the only superpowers in the universe. But I think Death's Head did cross the line into OP sometimes. He made that shit look too easy, and challenging a demigod (like Unicron) to psychic combat was a bit... like... enough. Otherwise though, I really like him. zmog
i thought MMC was working on one. i know they teased a lockdown but i was hearing rumors it would share the mold with a deaths head since it came with a weapons locker with the mace and other DH weapons.
Absolutely love Death's Head. I nearly squealed (yes, squealed) when I found his Marvel Infinity figure, and yes, it is on my Transformers shelf. I really hope that IDW can find a way to let us see him again.
please little baby jesus let this be true ,i also dont think the mouse would really waiste there time with a 3rd party company making a ko of deathshead
Actually, he started in Marvel before Transformers. Simon Furman explained at BotCon 97 (and prolly other interviews since then) that he wanted to prevent Hasbro from claiming the copyright. So he wrote Death's Head into an Iron Man comic short (or some other Marvel property) the week before his Transformers debut. I think after he got Transformers-ly popular, they purposely wrote him into other Marvel properties to keep their hold on him. Funny, how 27 years later we're all wishing Hasbro really had the property!
You don't know much about the mouse's history, do you? Disney is notorious for aggressively and litigiously pursuing their ownership rights. I suspect that they would be much MORE strident in addressing a 3rd party problem than Hasbro ever was. Interesting. I wondered about that, because I remember that Marvel was very sneaky about debuting Circuit Breaker in Secret Wars II before her Transformers 1st appearance, specifically so they could retain rights over the character. Doesn't surprise me that they did the same with Death's Head, but I didn't know about earlier appearances. I imagine that Furman didn't figure that 27 years down the line, Transformers would still be the defining work of his career. zmog
No - apparently not. I asked him once and he said he'd rather Deaths Head be in Marvels hands than Hasbro's. A shame really as it would have meant that Simon would be writing him more.
my understanding is death's head was created as a transformer character, but it was decided he had too much potential to let hasbro have him, so a 1-page story was done up and published in a few other marvel uk books to secure the copyright. i was getting the uk transformers series when he was "killed off." i was also getting doctor who magazine and was astonished when he turned up in the seventh doctor's comic strip.
Did he say why? I loved the first one myself, and would love to have a figure. Second one kind of had a boring Predator-derivative vibe, IMO. --Moony
Probably because the Marvel Universe is a bigger place for the character to grow. If Deaths Head remained with Hasbro his story would always be overshadowed by the events of the Autobot/Decepticon war. And the one page 'special' was called 'High Noon Tex' which kinda showed where Furman wanted Deaths Head to be after Transformers.
Wow, I'd forgotten about Circuit Breaker! She was such an evil human, she'd team well with Frasier from the Bay movies! Details! Details!
I read somewhere that Deaths Head was going to be a throw away character that would perish in the Transformers comic. But Simon Furman took one look at Geoff Seniors initial design and said that Deaths Head was too good a character to simply dispose of. Had Seniors initial design not been so damn good, we could have all but forgotten Deaths Head ever existed!
Actually I could swear I just saw a Marvel Action figure of him somewhere just this week? One of the normal 6" line. It may have been in a classic toy store I wander through, but it didn't look that old?
It was only released last year. Part of the Marvel Legends line. I have one. Its a very good figure and is still widely available. It isn't a Masterpiece though!!!!!!
Deaths Head has a Marvel Universe toy, so it's the 3 3/4'' scale, but because it's based off Hasbros Collossus figure he's actually quite big, Revoltech sized. It's an OK figure, but his chest isn't secured down to his torso, and only comes with 2 weapons which are interchangable with his hand. The problem is he really is too small to scale with Deluxe figures which is a darn shame. 'High Noon Tex' is just a one page, and a bit of a rush job. Starts off with the titled mechanoid 'Tex' kicking in DH's office door, swearing revenge for his brothers killing or somesuch. He confronts DH who is standing looking out the window, but but it turns out it's a dummy of DH packed with explosives that DH detonates remotely. He says something witty as Tex's charred hat lands in his hands. Art was by Bryan Hitch and it's an oddity but nothing Earth shaking. The page is reprinted in volume 1 of 'The Complete Deaths Head' TPB if you want to track it down.
