Death's Head #2
“Contractual Obligations” · Dragon's Claws guest appearance · original first printing · Marvel UK
20 December 1988 on sale · January 1989 cover date
Death's Head #2 is the January 1989 second issue of Marvel UK's first Death's Head solo series, on sale 20 December 1988. The story, “Contractual Obligations,” brings Death's Head into direct conflict with Dragon's Claws, extending Marvel UK's late-1980s experiment in building original British-created science-fiction properties in US comic-book format.
Read the catalogue note →- Issue
- 2
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics Ltd. / Marvel UK
- State
- Raw · standard modern US-format comic · saddle-stapled · full colour
- Condition
- Very Good+ / Fine appearance from supplied exterior photographs — ungraded.
- Completeness
- Front and rear covers are present. Interior pagination and completeness have not been directly collated from the supplied photographs; Grand Comics Database catalogues the issue as 28 pages.
- Rarity
- Not assessed
Catalogue note
Death's Head #2 is the January 1989 second issue of Marvel UK's first Death's Head solo series, on sale 20 December 1988. The story, “Contractual Obligations,” brings Death's Head into direct conflict with Dragon's Claws, extending Marvel UK's late-1980s experiment in building original British-created science-fiction properties in US comic-book format. The issue is especially useful within TMR because it directly links the Death's Head sequence to the already catalogued Dragon's Claws #1 and preserves an early Bryan Hitch / Simon Furman collaboration.
Writer: Simon Furman — “Contractual Obligations”
Artist: Bryan Hitch (pencils) · Dave Hine / David Hine (inks) · Nick Abadzis (colours) · Annie H. / Annie Parkhouse (letters)
Cover: Bryan Hitch (pencils) · Mark Farmer (inks)
Edition: Original 1988/89 first printing; UK 55p / US $1.75 / CAN $2.25; no separately catalogued same-format second printing located
Why this object matters
The Dragon’s Claws crossover directly connects TMR’s original Marvel UK science-fiction holdings and preserves the early Furman/Hitch collaboration. That unusually coherent collection relationship supports the existing outstanding 8.6.
Evidence limits: Front and rear covers are present. Interior pagination and completeness have not been directly collated from the supplied photographs; Grand Comics Database catalogues the issue as 28 pages.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.6 / 10.
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Recorded contributions · 2
- Dave HineArtworkCatalogue credit
Artwork credit: Bryan Hitch (pencils) · Dave Hine / David Hine (inks) · Nick Abadzis (colours) · Annie H. / Annie Parkhouse (letters) Original catalogue credit
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Artwork credit: Bryan Hitch (pencils) · Dave Hine / David Hine (inks) · Nick Abadzis (colours) · Annie H. / Annie Parkhouse (letters) Original catalogue credit
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