Dead man's hand in popular culture feature the aces and eights hand as a foreshadowing of death. In "Stagecoach" (1939), the hand is held by Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler), soon to be shot by the Ringo Kid (John Wayne). In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), Liberty Valance draws the hand just prior to his death. In Anthony Mann's film "Winchester '73", "Dutch" Henry lays down a full house, aces over eights, stating that he just missed a "dead man's hand." In the 1941 Western "The Badlands of Dakota", Wild Bill Hickok, played by Richard Dix, is shown to be holding the aces and eights
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