 Embleton died of a heart attack at his home in Bournemouth on 13 February 1988.As well as "The Times", obituaries appeared in a number of other national newspapers, including "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Independent", the latter noting that whilst Embleton was 'internationally famous' for his "Penthouse" comic strip, 'he was also a fine illustrator whose penchant for historical accuracy and detail went beyond mere craft'.In "The Guardian" he was lauded as 'a comic strip artist of extraordinary energy and versatility, so wide-ranging in what he did that he might seem on the face of it to have straddled the void - or pit - which [George] Orwell saw gaping between the "gentle" English tales and the sado-masochistic "Yank mags" in the famous essay on Boys' Weeklies.'