Dragon's Claws

Dragon's Claws was a Sci-Fi title created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior and published by Marvel UK in 1988-89 about a group of former extreme sports players turned law enforcement agents called Dragon's Claws, led by a bloke called Dragon and consisting of the vigilante named Mercy Connaught, the samurai called Steel (Shonin Ikeda), the cyborg Digit (Gan Ayerson) and the mysterious Scavenger. Intended as the prototype for a range of American format titles, the book was originally solicited as Dragon's Teeth, but this was changed at a late stage due to an independent title having already claimed that name. Set in the year 8162 AD, the series followed the fortunes of the Claws (who had originally made their living in The Game, a sport reminiscent of 2000 AD's Mean Arena) as they took on a variety of foes including the Evil Dead, the Wildcats and the mechanoid bounty hunter Death's Head (soon to be a Marvel UK star in his own right). The series lasted only ten issues.


 * The Claws also appeared in Death's Head issue #2, drawn by Bryan Hitch, the only time they were not drawn by Geoff Senior.