Death's Head is a
fictional comic book character, a robotic bounty hunter (or rather, as he calls himself, a "freelance peace-keeping agent") appearing in the books published by
Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer
Simon Furman and artist
Geoff Senior for the company's
Marvel UK imprint. Furman decided to use Death's Head in his
Transformers stories, but believed that characters appearing in Transformers "were prone to be absorbed into that title's catchall copyright" (allowing
Hasbro to contest their ownership) and led to a one-page strip titled "High Noon Tex" (which was subsequently published in various Marvel UK titles) being hastily created to establish Marvel's ownership of the character. Furman has stated that he chose the name Death's Head for the character while unaware of the "
Nazi-connotations of the name".