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|image=High Noon Tex.jpg
|title="Death's Head!"<br>a.k.a. "High Noon Tex"
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|published in=[[The Transformers issue 167|''The Transformers'' issue 167]]
|date=21st May 1988
|coverdate=28th May 1988
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|colourist=[[Steve White]]
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'''For every job that must be done, there's an element of fun...'''
▲'''What's good and bad and ugly all over?'''
==Synopsis==
The door to [[Death's Head]]'s office is kicked off its hinges by [[Tex]], who is out for revenge on the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent for killing his brother. To Death's Head, it was nothing but routine business – and since nobody's paying him to kill Tex, he can at least try and make fun out of his self preservation.
Instead of Death's Head, Tex finds himself confronted by a full-size replica filled with explosives. A speaker grille built into the bombs announces it is "High noon, Tex!" – and Death's Head hits the remote detonator switch from the safety of the street. The office explodes, and as Tex's hat sails through the air, Death's Head reflects that Tex would've laughed if he'd had a sense of humour.
==Featured characters==
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==Quotes==
"In my case, if I can't kill for '''profit,''' I at least have a '''laugh!'''"
:—'''Death's Head'''.
==Notes==
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*After creating Death's Head for the ''Transformers'' story {{TF|Wanted:_Galvatron_—_Dead_or_Alive!|"Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!"}}, Simon Furman and [[Geoff Senior]] saw the potential in the character and wanted to retain ownership of him for adventures without the Transformers. The story goes that this was achieved by publishing "High Noon Tex" in any Marvel comic series that had the space for it in advance of his ''Transformers'' debut, thereby avoiding him falling under the blanket ownership of Hasbro. '''''But...''''' this story falls apart under scrutiny, as the earliest known printing of "High Noon Tex" was in May 1988, a whole ''year'' after "Wanted: Galvatron", and when the strip was reprinted in the Furman-curated Titan Books collection ''Fallen Angel'' (see [[#Reprints|below]]), Bryan Hitch's artist signature was quietly edited to remove the "88" date. We're not saying Simon Furman basically blagged his way into having Marvel retain the rights to Death's Head, but if he did, then it's a move that'd make the freelance peacekeeping agent proud.
*Even more scandalous is that this comic has never actually officially been titled "High Noon Tex", being advertised only as "Death's Head" by issue 167's Transformation and other reprints since.
*The bullet points separating the names of the creative team are done up in the {{Marvel|Dragon's_Claws_Vol_1|Dragon's Claws}} style, as this
===Artwork and technical errors===
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[[Category:Death's Head comic stories]]
[[Category:The Transformers issue 167]]
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