Dead man's hand case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card. The expression "dead man's hand" appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s. The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a "full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens". Jacks and sevens are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 "Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences". Edmond Hoyle refers to it as Jacks and eights in 1907. What is considered the
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