"Death Wish" is a British comic strip published by IPC Magazines, Fleetway Publications and Rebellion Developments. It debuted in the first issue of the weekly anthology comic Speed on 23 February 1980, and was created by writer Barrie Tomlinson. Art was provided by Vanyo. The story revolved around racing driver Blake Edmonds, who was horribly disfigured in a plane crash and, donning a distinctive mask, embarked on a career of undertaking dangerous stunts in the hope of finding one that killed him – hence the strip's title. Later stories saw Blake transition to becoming a troubleshooting daredevil hero, and incorporated fantastical elements – including an appearance by Dracula. From September 1987, the strip was retitled "The Incredible Adventures of Blake Edmonds".

While Speed struggled to find a large audience and was cancelled after 31 issues, "Death Wish" was popular with readers and continued after Speed was merged with the long-running IPC title Tiger. When Tiger itself folded in 1985 the story continued once again in the pages of Eagle, where the character's adventures continued until 1988. Since 2016 the character and strip have been owned by Rebellion Developments.

After stints editing Tiger and Roy of the Rovers, by 1980 Barrie Tomlinson had advanced to the post of Boys' Adventure Group Editor at IPC Magazines. After colleague Bob Paynter pitched the idea for a new boys' weekly comic based around the concept of speed, Tomlinson was assigned to create the new title. Having mainly worked on sports stories, he relished the challenge, enjoying writing "Death Wish" in particular - later recalling "it was a little bit different and I could bring all sorts of different aspects into the story". Art duties were assigned to Vanyo, a collective name used by Spanish brothers Vicente Vaño Ibarra and Eduardo Vaño Ibarra, hired via the Bardon Agency, and had previously drawn "Action Force" stories for Battle. Typically Eduardo would provide pencils, which Vicente would ink; this contrasted with most British artists on weekly titles, who would ink their own pencils, and allowed the pair to be prolific without losing quality. Vanyo would provide the art for the rest of the character's appearances - apart from when the pages for one episode were lost in transit, and veteran Rex Archer provided emergency replacements. A feature on the latter incident was included in the 1989 Eagle Annual.

The strip was not related to "Death Wish", a World War II strip which had appeared in IPC's Valiant title in 1976.

"Death Wish" first appeared in the debut issue of Speed, cover-dated 23 February 1980. After some initial promise, Speed was cancelled at the end of October 1980, with selected contents merged to the long-running Tiger, at that time IPC's best-selling title. As one of the most popular strips in Speed, "Death Wish" was selected to continue; the strip would run for the final five years of Tiger's life, when the venerable comic was merged with the relaunched Eagle. During the story's run in Tiger, Edmonds crossed over with Skid Solo in the weekly as well as wrestler Johnny Cougar and cyborg motorcyclist Sintek in Tiger specials, while the weekly stories began incorporating supernatural elements.

Once again "Death Wish" remained popular with readers and would survive the amalgamation, with adventures appearing in Eagle until 1988 - with the increased fantasy elements seeing Edmonds battle Dracula at one stage. From 1987 the story was renamed "The Incredible Adventures of Blake Edmonds" in belated response to the strip's more upbeat nature, though it retained the subtitle 'A Death Wish Story'. As Eagle credited creators, Tomlinson was listed under the pseudonym 'D. Horton' as writer, retaining his name for editorial credits only. The story did appear in the 1992 Eagle Yearbook, but was only represented by reprints from two Tiger Annual appearances.

By then, IPC had consolidated their comics titles into a resurrected version of Fleetway Publications, which were sold to Pergamon Holdings and then Egmont Publishing. In 2016 these rights - consisting of characters first published after 1 January 1970, and 15 selected older characters who had been still appearing in Buster at the time of the deal - were sold to Rebellion Publishing.

Blake Edmonds was one of the characters chosen by Rebellion to appear in crossover meta-series The Vigilant as one of the members of the eponymous team. The 2018 one-shot starring the team featured a short new "Death Wish" back-up story, which saw Edmonds briefly meet an alternate version of himself from the universe of the infamous Action story "Kids Rule OK!".