Dead man's hand in popular culture cards with a death row inmate, hoping to reveal the location of another victim. Hotch claims to have a pair of aces and a pair of eights, a dead man's hand, which the inmate believes is what he should have. The inmate shows a straight: 7 of spades, 8 of hearts, 9 of spades, 10 of hearts, jack of hearts. Hotch reveals he was hiding another ace, thus beating the inmate. In June 2012, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling introduced a faction known as the "Aces & Eights". The faction would use the Dead Man's Hand (black aces, black eights and
The Dead Man The Dead Man The Dead Man was a science fiction strip in the British comic "2000 AD" by writer John Wagner and artist John Ridgway, published in black and white in 1989–90. Although it was not billed as a "Judge Dredd" story, it featured Dredd as the amnesiac protagonist known only as the Dead Man. It was part of a series of stories that set the scene for the main "Judge Dredd" story of 1990, "Necropolis". The story is told from the point of view of Yassa Povey, a young boy living in the Cursed Earth, a radioactive desert in