"sir this is a Wendy's"

I can't tell if he's genuine or sarcastic when it comes to the title and post.

This feels like the tommy westfall multiverse hypothesis, which is like this, but even more crazy.

Actually it gets even more confusing as all this is actually happening in the Mind of an Autistic Child from a Tv show from the 1980's as the Tommy Westphall universe interconnects not only with all above but also Blade Runner Alien and Red Dwarf kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4eQh2Onmqymmsksi=DtRTZ_MGSFzG-UcD

Type 1 multiverse solves your issue. Same reality. Same universe. Different Time & In Different Space.😉👍 ‘Nuff said.

Actually there’s just a whole universe dedicated to crossovers with Marvel, it’s called the crossoververse

one of the things that always caught my attention was that i could never find any US printing of "High Noon Tex" prior to Dragon's Claws #3 (1988)

My Favorite is Soundwave, I have taken solace in the fact I will never be able to have a complete collection.

Yeah, the whole time I was watching your previous video I was thinking about how Marvel stole the Death's Head character.

I heard "Ben 10"

I love when people talk about comic crossovers as if dimensional rifts are opening in our own reality

I'm curious if this is the reason they got rid of the original Death's Head and created Death's Head II. I've always thought it was strange to 'recreate' a character like that.

I have seven Shockwaves, and I know I can never be Shockwave complete. He is just wa too big.

Watch this video at 2x speed to get the authentic Blurr experience

Okay I was wondering if they were worried about this copyright and that's why death's head2 was a thing

You see, Marvel's Transformers crossovers make perfect sense if you just assume that approximately three minutes after the crossover ends, Nick Fury vaporizes every Transformer to ever exist and uses some super spy nonsense to make everyone forget it happened.

I was a comic fan in the '90s and I haven't thought about death's head in years. This was so incredibly interesting. That's some dang fine research you did.

dont understand why he wasen't yellow tho

There is a truism I have learned, which is that STARTING a collection is always cheaper than FINISHING a collection. Yeah, you get those first pieces for a steal. They might even be the best pieces, the ones you MOST wanted. But it's those last ones that are super hard to track down that cost an arm, leg, and firstborn... And seeing this video was timely, because I just posted my own collection video this morning despairing of ever finding a Blurr I liked for it, because there's no magic combination of a G1-looking robot with a normal-looking Earth alt-mode for Blurr like they've done for Kup, Scourge, Wheelie, etc. 😆

Fun story: I have the original art for High Noon Tex… but I’m in the middle of moving, and JUST before a friend showed me this video, I dropped it off at a friend’s comic shop for safekeeping! Normally I could just walk over to my wall to look at it but I’ll have to pop over there and look for clues later in the week. 😁

You claim you're not interested in taking Death's Head from the Marvel Universe... then proceed to give Hasbro lawyers all the evidence they need to sue Marvel... what is wrong with you?? Do you have any depressed friends you could hand a gun to as well???

No, yes?

Seems to be a lot of people citing copyright without understanding it. Copyrights, trademarks and IP can be transferred. The contract Hasbro had with Marvel was about transferring the ownership of copyright, trademarks and IP based on where and the character made their first published appearance. Copyright is to prevent IP theft, not to circumnavigate fully legal agreements between two or more parties. The contract overrules any original copyright.

Just rewatched this and I can't believe you didn't mention Bonjaxx's birthday party where the doctor takes death's head with him and they canonically meet Bart Simpson, Darth Vader, Conan the barbarian, Worf, the Thunderbirds, sapphire and steel, multiple marvel characters, multiple doctor who monsters and a future version of the doctor, who reveals the true name of the doctor to be Fred. That one is a hell of a comic.

Happy 40th Transformers! Yess🥳

I think by 1987, Hasbro wasn't paying attention to a property that was dieing out on the toyshelves. They were focused on the next thing. Like buying Tonka.

We know you aren’t suicidal.

I've béen on this very same attempt to reconcile this clearly false story (it was clearly false to me, at 12 years old) with my love of DH as a Marvel character for about 36 years. Seeing this video for me is like when the two Milhouses met

It seems copyright is secured at the point of creation, not publication. So if High Noon Tex was made as a way of securing the copyright to Death's Head for Marvel before appearing in Transformers, it would do so even if it was published later. As long as it was made before DH appeared in Transformers. The question is - was it? We'll probably never know for sure. Unless there's a dated copy in a Marvel vault somewhere, there's not enough evidence to say either way. Either a version of High Noon Tex was drawn before Transformers #113 and then redrawn before publication, or it was drawn later and the 'official' story is wrong. Transformers #113 was published in May 1987. According to Wikipedia, Bryan Hitch was given his first professional commission by Marvel UK in May or June 1987 for Action Force soon after his 17th birthday in April that year. But it's unclear precisely when he submitted his sample story to them. It's just about possible that, soon before TF#113 was published in May 1987, someone at Marvel UK - probably Richard Starkings, the editor - got Furman to write a one-page story and this was given to the new kid 16- or 17-year-old Hitch to draw as one of his very first tasks for the company. It's possible, but is it likely? As the original artist, and given the timing in 1987, would such a task more usually be given to Geoff Senior at that point? Or is it more likely that Bryan Hitch first drew High Noon Tex in 1988 as a promotional piece when he was given the job of drawing the new Death's Head series (presumably because Geoff Senior was busy with Dragon's Claws)? Again, we'll probably never know. Even if High Noon Tex was drawn after Death's Head appeared in Transformers, the story told may not have been a ploy to keep Hasbro from disputing the copyright. It may just be some people misremembering the sequence of events, making assumptions and retelling the story until it became the 'official' version.

Hey. I like Death's Head II. He's functionally a totally different character than our favorite Freelance Peacekeeping Agent, yes? Death's Head II is grimdark and moody and edgy and extreeeeeeeme! Thankfully they both can and do exist without problem. I I see DHII as a "variant," as they say in the MCU. Stop dumping on my lil' monster-skull-face boi!

There's an elegant solution to this -- and to ALL crossovers. I recommend you read "Shattered Image," a four-issue limited series from 1996. It's from the heyday of Image Comics and it's written by none other than Kurt Busiek. The series was created to explain Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios elements of the Image world disappearing. In it, super-genius Savant explains how Image's world is actually multiple Earths that overlap with each other. In writing this story, Kurt explains how he sees ALL crossovers. We all know about the straightforward kind of crossover: one where you have to go through some kind of portal to visit another world. "Marvel vs DC" is a prime example of this. But there's also another kind: one where multiple worlds go into a kind of conjunction -- the "Shattered Image" story is an explicit experession of this. In this latter type of crossover, two (or more) worlds cross paths with each other and overlap, merging for a while. When this happens, their characters can meet (or even merge) and, most importantly, their histories merge. Another example of this is "The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans," which presents a world where the Titans and the X-Men have always have been in the same universe. Robin sees a newspaper headline about the X-Men and wonders why they and the Titans have never met before. The key principle is that while the worlds are in conjunction, not only are their histories merged but also the characters' MEMORIES are merged. And when the worlds go out of conjunction, their histories and their characters' memories un-merge as well, going back to what passes for normal in comic books. This idea explain all of Crossoverology very neatly. It explains why, in "Marvel vs DC," the characters could only meet thanks to the powers of Access... while in 1995's "Spider-Man & Batman," Spidey just took a bus to Gotham.

Someone, not me, should forward this over to the Legal Eagle guy. He has a huge following and would be able to clearly break down all the legal ramifications of all of this. Not to mention that the exposure to your channel would be INSANE. He seems to love copywrite law and stuff like this.

I would like to see deaths head appear in other franchises. He should be given some kind of multidimensional power to travel throughout existance. Lets give a horror film walk on, maybe put him on terrifier. He may work out there. Then put him in some failing star wars series (the whole franchise is already so fkd up and now a pitiful excuse for a money grab anyway so why not) Then put him in as a joke on a rom com.. maybe even have him in costume and character on Joe Rogan. Im sure cartoon network can use him somewhere too. Lol Perhaps a Kanye video even? Lets campaign to put Deaths Head in practically eveything. Let him smash the hell out of the fourth wall and send him on a crash course throughout our corroded pop culture.

I need to read some Death's Head. It's been too long.

Freelance peacekeeping agent ,Yes

If I remember right, Spawn and Invincible consider all crossovers canon

bloody hell dude, im over in scotland, im 48,, i collected and still have all to transformer comics, as soon as i saw death's head a lightbulb switched on, I'm going to have to pull out the comics and have a look. just had a thought,, are you sure i wasnt in another UK franchise before hand.....2000ad

Zoomers when something cant be found on the internet 😮😱🤯cant be real

As someone deeply obsessed with documenting crossovers, I love videos like these. Both because I often learn of crossovers I've never heard of, and I like seeing how different people react to the weird interconnected web. Anyway, here's a couple of my favorite little connections. In Mario Maker one costume powerup let's Mario become Shaun the Sheep (a spinoff of Wallace and Gromit). Mortal Kombat 11's Spawn crossover references both Spawn's and Raiden's adventures with DC A device from 2001 A Space Odyssey appears in Watto's junkyark in Star Wars Episode 1. I particularly like this one because it seems to get overlooked for the ET easter egg instead

You did a lot of work for absolutely no reason. Nothing had to be printed for Marvel to copyright Death's Head. That's really all there is to it. Fun video, though. I had no idea the character even existed.

Dude, shut up! Hasbro is going to see your video and take the rights to Death's Head and then we'll never see him again

Now that I think about it, Death's Head is shrunken down in High Noon Tex, unless he was on a planet of giants.

Great video. I've been living with this curse knowledge with this a long time. I've loved Death's Head character since Transformers and I've never forgiven the creative team for what happened to Death's Head in Deaths' Head 2 mini series, they broke my heart. Lol.

I don’t care!

I’m Canadian/British and would get some UK comics and have no idea WTF Death’s Head was

I had totally forgotten about Deaths Head until this video popped up in my suggestions. The Transformers comic was the only comic I read as a kid, my mum couldn't afford more (my brother got 2000AD), so I read and reread every copy so many times. Deaths Head was such a weird and different character, and I remember loving how it made that world feel bigger and stranger, and it felt like he'd stepped out of the pages of my brothers comic. He looked awesome and spoke in a weird idiosyncratic way, I remember how exciting and dangerous he seemed, he was incredibly cool. And in all those intervening years I had forgotten about him, thank you so much for bringing back a really excellent part of my childhood! Now I have to go and find all this extra stuff, yes?

You had me until "DH II sucks."

UK copyright law does not require publication. And the date on the issues isn't the publication date, it's an instruction for newsagents to remove the issue from shelves. Just another ignorant yank being a twat. Move along, nothing to see here.

11:57 - if you know, you know.

Death's Head, a (bounty hunter) free-lance peace keeping agent for certain financial remunerations. This character starred in a short lived British comic called Dragon's Claws! This is after the Dr. Who cross over! But, Death's Head originally starred in Transformers comics.