Dragon's Claws is a British dystopian science fiction comic book, published by Marvel UK about the eponymous law enforcers.
After taking over the post, Ian Rimmer shored up Marvel UK with successful comics based on licensed franchises such as Transformers, ThunderCats, Zoids and The Real Ghostbusters, mixing reprints of American material with British creations.
Following the book's cancellation the characters went into obscurity until a brief reappearance in 2004, when Furman and Paul Ridgon created a single-page epilogue for the 2004 edition of the charity project Just One Page.
The entire Dragon's Claws series was subsequently reprinted by Panini Comics (Marvel's British licensee since Marvel UK's collapse in the 1990s) in a trade paperback in 2008, including a colour version of the Just One Page strip, with a new cover by Senior[7][better source needed] Greater Britain is a desolate place, where the population was kept docile by watching The Game.
By 8162 the Game was banned due to concerns about the levels of violence involved, but many of the teams - typically made up of hardened psychotic criminals - are now threats to society.
He is contacted by Deller, an agent of N.U.R.S.E [National Union of Retired Sports Experts], who offers him, and his old team, the Claws, a role as government enforcers.
[8] Among these were The Jesters,[9] The Vanishing Ladies,[10] Split Infinity[10] and the Jones Boys,[11] but the recurring threat was the Evil Dead, led by Dragon's old nemesis Slaughterhouse.
[9][11][12][13] Other adversaries were the mechanoid freelance peace-keeping agent Death's Head, who was hired by the surviving members of the Evil Dead, and was heavily damaged when he clashed with Dragon.