by Timothy Raven on Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:08 pm
practicecactus - The british Transformers comic was published by the UK office of Marvel, the cover simply has Marvel, not Marvel UK. I recall they started using Marvel UK as a brand name in the '90's, when there was a big publicity push for Marvel titles done by people from Marvel UK that were being sold as part of the general Marvel releases, titles such as Death's Head II, Motormouth, etc...
The first Death's Head story (issue 113, published 1987 May 16) has him hunting for Galvatron, after the events seen at the end of Transformers : The Movie (1986).
BMB - The Ranson story actually revolved around people, the Transformers seemed more cautious about showing themselves and were only seen in a few panels, but it had the Ranson art we love. Unfortunately I only have a couple of issues (113 to 120) the rest were tossed out (grrrrr...).