Dead man's hand dead man's hand card combination of today gets its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud hand held by James Butler Hickok (better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok) when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon at Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Reportedly, Hickok's final hand included the aces and eights of both black suits. According to a book by Western historian Carl W. Breihan, the cards were retrieved from the floor by a man named Neil Christy, who then passed them on to his
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