Desperate Dan many contexts. A limited selection is mentioned here. Desperate Dan Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic magazine "The Dandy" and has become their mascot. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. The pillow of his (reinforced) bed is filled with building rubble and his beard is so tough he shaves with a blowtorch. The character was created by Dudley D. Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but evolved into
Roberto D'Aubuisson To political prisoners he was known as "Blowtorch Bob", due to his frequent use of a blowtorch in interrogation sessions. In 1986 ex-US ambassador Robert White reported to the United States Congress that "there was sufficient evidence" to convict D'Aubuisson of planning and ordering Archbishop Romero's assassination, describing D'Aubuisson as a pathological killer, as early as his 1984 Salvadoran presidential run. In April 2010 Alvaro Saravia, a former army captain who has admitted taking part in Romero's murder, testified in an interview with the Salvadoran newspaper "El Faro" that D'Aubuisson had given the order to proceed with the killing of