Death's Head is the name of an android bounty hunter - although he prefers "Freelance peacekeeping agent," yes? -created by Simon Furman for the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics, originally planned to star in his own series, but who was shelved. A little later, Furman decided to use Death's Head in his UK Transformers stories, and so the character was unleashed, first in a one-page strip that ran in many comics to confirm Marvel's ownership of the character (if he had appeared in the TF comics first, Hasbro would have owned him), and the in the Transformers comic itself.

Death's Head's first appearance saw him attempt to claim the bounty that Rodimus Prime had placed on Galvatron's head, travelling back in time to the 1980's in pursuit of his quarry. Realising the error he had made in placing the bounty, Rodimus followed him back, and stopped him from destroying Galvatron, forcibly returning him to the future. Subsequently, Death's Head was contracted by the Decepticons to take out Rodimus Prime, a piece of business that Death's Head considered a pleasure. However, Rodimus outsmarted him, and instead paid him to terminate Cyclonus and Scourge. Over the course of the next year, Death's Head pursued them, eventually confronting them on the Planet of Junk , where they all fell under the mental control of Unicron.

Death's Head tried to resist the control, but was manipulated into killing Shockwave, only to eventually help Rodimus Prime seal Unicron within the Matrix. Finally, prevented from escaping the scene by the explosions wracking the area, Death's Head forced himself, Cyclonus and Scourge through Unicron's time portal, vowing to kill them "another time." However, in the course of the time travel, they became separated, and while Cyclonus and Scourge wound up on Cybertron in the past, eventually joining with Scorponok and becoming Targetmasters , Death's Head instead encountered the Time Lord known as the Doctor, who shrank him to human size and shot him off through time, leading him into an encounter with the future government's troubleshooting team, the Dragon's Claws .

Eventually, after many adventures, Death's Head was "assimilated" by the cyborg Minion. Death's Head's personality overwhelmed Minion and they became the gestalt lifeform Death's Head II. Death's Head's assistants have included Spratt, a young gang member who rebuilt Death's Head after he was destroyed by Dragon's Claws, and Tuck, an artificial human from the Medieval planet Lionheart. Death's Head has encountered many other fictional characters including the Fantastic Four. Death's Head II encountered many more Marvel and Marvel UK characters, including the X-Men, Spider-Man and Cable.

Death's Head's exploits came to end with the demise of Marvel UK.