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Death's Head - Death's Head II

Eventually, after many undocumented adventures, Death's Head was beheaded and his personality "assimilated" into the mind of the cyborg Minion. Minion was a cyborg created by Dr. Evelyn Necker, an employee of AIM in the year 2020. Death's Head's personality overwhelmed Minion's programming, and they became the gestalt lifeform that called itself Death's Head II. Death's Head II was partnered with Tuck, an artificial human from the pseudo-medieval planet of Lionheart, where humans had outlawed advanced technology and waged war against androids and cyborgs. Death's Head II encountered many more Marvel characters, including the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Cable, and crossed over with almost every Marvel UK character who was published at the time.

Death's Head 2 was created by artist Liam Sharp and primarily scripted by Dan Abnett.

The original Death's Head was only ever seen again in flashbacks or within Death's Head II's gestalt mind. A coda to the original Death's Head could be found in the Simon Furman-penned issue of What If, issue #54 which was entitled "What If Death's Head I Had Lived?"

The original 10 issue series was reprinted in its entirely in a 12 issue mini series, The Incomplete Death's Head, featuring new covers and an additional short story featuring Death's Head II replaying his memories. The series also had Death's Head II teaming up with his original incarnation to battle a mechanical life form named Hob in a strange space station which existed outside time.

Other Death's Head II titles included the 4 issue introductory mini series, a 16 issue 'ongoing' run, and Death's Head II Gold, a second mini series that only got as far as issue 1 (although issue 0 was featured as a flip cover on ongoing issue 15).

Death's Head's exploits ultimately came to end with the (second) demise of Marvel UK's in house creative team, and aside from a cameo in Avengers Forever, he has not been featured in a Marvel comic since.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Death's Head II", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki