Trivia / Marvel UK

• Edited for Syndication reached new heights (or depths) when Marvel UK had the comic rights to Planet of the Apes: Marvel’s American series Killraven, which was rooted in War of the Worlds, was hastily edited and reprinted as Ape Slayer, replacing the evil martians enslaving humanity with equally evil apes.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: With the exception of Captain Britain, Dark Guard, Night Raven and Dragon's Claws, most of the Marvel UK stories are now unavailable. They weren't collected in trade paperbacks and have never been released as digital comics.
• No Export for You: Inverted for Wild Angels, a miniseries starring Wild Thing and Dark Angel. The series was cancelled shortly before release, so has never appeared in English, but Panini had already done the Italian translation so it became an Italian-language Europe-exclusive.
• Production Posse: When Dez Skinn left Marvel UK for new anthology comic Warrior, he persuaded Alan Moore, David Lloyd and (slightly later) Alan Davis - the creative teams for Night Raven and Captain Britain - to work on two similar stories for Warrior. The two new strips were V for Vendetta and Miracleman.
• What Could Have Been: Several new projects were about to launch when Marvel's financial problems collapsed the imprint and cancelled the existing books.
  • Warhide would have been a Russian communist who was captured and flayed by the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, then saved and enhanced with a diamond-hard liquid carbon skin. The character appeared on the cover of the Body Count promotional book, but his own series was never published.
  • Loose Cannons was a Warheads spin-off miniseries written by Dan Abnett and guest starring Death's Head II. The art and script were almost entirely finished when it was cancelled pre-publication (and were subsequently put online by the creative team).
  • There were going to be further stories of the Warheads, wormhole-travelling mercenaries funded by Mys-Tech. All There in the Manual details were given in Overkill magazine. Warheads: Black Dawn mentions two planned miniseries to appear in 1993. The all-female Virago troop was to be featured in the cancelled four issue Loose Cannons limited series by Dan Abnett and Mark Harrison.
  • Dark Guard was about Marvel UK characters teaming up to fight Mys-Tek, and was going to be followed by Dark Guard Gold.
  • Death's Head Gold, by Dan Abnett and Liam Sharp, was published as Death Head's Gold #0, the flip cover of Death's Head II Vol 2 #14, followed by Death's Head Gold #1. Issues #2-3 were intended to follow, wherein Tuck is seduced by Cicatrice, Death's Head II becomes a sort of god and meets his future self.
  • Wild Angels was a Europe-exclusive Dark Angel and Wild Thing crossover published by Panini/Marvel Italia.
  • Death's Head II had an unpublished story where Death's Head II and Tuck team up with the Punisher. The Punisher would also have appeared in Super-Soldiers #9.
  • Wild Thing ended with issue #7; Super-Soldiers ended with issue #8. The Red Mist crossover, about the Red Mist 2020 virus introduced into the Super Soldier program, would have gone through the cancelled Super-Soldiers #9-10, Wild Thing #9-10, Bloodrush, Death Duty, and 'Roid Rage.