Death ' s Head ( 1988 ) " Death ' s Head " ( 1988 ) was a 1988 American comic book - style series published by Marvel Comics UK . It featured the exploits of a robotic mercenary character named Death ' s Head . The first of the Marvel titles to bear the name " Death ' s Head " , it is sometimes imprecisely called " Death ' s Head I " for casual clarity , even though it is technically the only Death ' s Head title to bear the indicia name of simply " Death ' s Head " . It is of interest to the DWU because it featured a story in which the title character met the Seventh Doctor . It is of interest to the because it — largely by implication — turns at least the Seventh Doctor into a character within the MU . Title history . Created by Simon Furman , Death ' s Head had debuted in the Marvel UK series and then made his way into the " Doctor Who Magazine " strip , as well as the prefiguring , which led immediately to this solo title . " Death ' s Head " ( 1988 ) ran for ten issues , then ended on a cliffhanger due to Marvel US ' decision to radically curtail Marvel UK ' s activities . Despite the reduction in UK - based creative staff , the storyline of this series was resolved in a Marvel UK graphic novel called " Death ' s Head : The Body in Question " . Other " Death ' s Head " titles . It ' s important to distinguish this series from other , following series . Additionally , there are several other , minor Marvel US characters known as " Death ' s Head " , but none of these lasted long enough to get a solo title or mini - series . Therefore , the term " Death ' s Head " as it relates to comics is usually interpreted today as meaning one of the Simon Furman creations . Stories of interest to " Doctor Who " fans . The short - lived title contained two stories that utilised characters that , unlike Death ' s Head himself , had originated in the pages of " Doctor Who Magazine " . The Doctor and the Marvel universe . For canon hawks , this series has " huge " implications for the level of interconnection between the " Doctor Who " and Marvel universes . " Time Bomb ! " — which is to say " Death ' s Head " # 8 — is unambiguously a part of the DWU , particularly . It features characters previously introduced in the pages of " Doctor Who Magazine " , including Josiah W . Dogbolter , his robot assistant Hob and Death ' s Head himself . Thus it ' s fairly easy to see the issue as consistent with the " DWM " strips . How , then , should " Doctor Who " fans deal with the " rest " of the series ? The truth is that " Death ' s Head " is a bit of a quagmire . Here ' s a series of progressively more difficult questions that " Death ' s Head " ( 1988 ) poses for " Doctor Who " fans , starting with the most obvious and innocent : All of these are questions with no ready answer , because the idea of the Doctor crossing over into the Marvel universe is largely confined to the pages of " Death ' s Head " and " Death ' s Head " alone . This disused corner of both the DWU and the MU has simply been ignored by comic theorists and " Doctor Who " " experts " alike — almost certainly because the notion has no possibility of success from a financial and legal standpoint alone . Nevertheless , " Death ' s Head " does narratively allow for the possibility that the Doctor could have been ' s scientific advisor , or that Captain Jack might have fought alongside in World War II .