Desperate Dan 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 a more sympathetic type, using his strength to
A. W. Underwood musician Brian Eno, entitled "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch", from his debut solo album "Here Come the Warm Jets". A. W. Underwood A. William Underwood (born c. 1855) was a young African American man from Paw Paw, Michigan purported in his time to have pyrokinetic abilities. In January 1882, Dr. L. C. Woodman of Paw Paw wrote in the "Michigan Medical News" of Underwood, whose purported abilities had made him a local celebrity: I have a singular phenomenon in the shape of a young man living here, that I have studied with much interest, and I am satisfied that his