Dragon's Claws #1
“The Game!” · Marvel UK series premiere · original first printing · first appearance of Dragon's Claws
June 1988 publication date · July 1988 cover date · on sale 31 May 1988
Dragon's Claws #1 is the 1988 launch issue of Marvel UK's dystopian science-fiction series by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior. Set in the far future, it introduces Dragon and the Dragon's Claws team—Mercy, Scavenger, Digit and Steel—as former elite players drawn back into a violent social order.
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- 1
- Publisher
- marvel-comics
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good−
- Completeness
- Apparently intact from the supplied front cover, rear cover and interior/indicia view, but not page-by-page collated. Authoritative cataloguing gives 28 pages. No separate free gift or premium has been established for this issue.
Catalogue note
Dragon's Claws #1 is the 1988 launch issue of Marvel UK's dystopian science-fiction series by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior. Set in the far future, it introduces Dragon and the Dragon's Claws team—Mercy, Scavenger, Digit and Steel—as former elite players drawn back into a violent social order. The issue is materially significant as an original British-produced Marvel comic in US comic-book format, carrying UK, US and Canadian prices on the same cover. It preserves the debut context of a short-lived but historically useful Marvel UK experiment that preceded and paralleled further original US-format titles such as Death's Head.
Writer: Simon Furman — “The Game!”
Cover: Geoff Senior
Why this object matters
Furman and Senior’s original Dragon’s Claws launch is an outstanding record of Marvel UK developing its own science-fiction properties in US format. The multi-market cover and links to Death’s Head strengthen the held publishing-history group without confusing it with an American reprint.
Evidence limits: Apparently intact from the supplied front cover, rear cover and interior/indicia view, but not page-by-page collated. Authoritative cataloguing gives 28 pages. No separate free gift or premium has been established for this issue.
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Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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- Geoff SeniorCover artworkCatalogue credit
Cover artwork credit: Geoff Senior Original catalogue credit
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