Dead man's hand in popular culture a game of poker by dealing aces and eights to Sam's love interest. It is referred to as a "dead man's hand" by Al. In an episode of "The Untouchables" syndicated TV series (1993-1994), members of an Irish gang are playing poker when they are gunned down by members of an Italian mob. A short time later, other members of the Irish gang come to investigate the scene of the demise of their unfortunate colleagues. At one point, the leader of the investigating team examines the poker hand held by one of the deceased and comments matter-of-factly, "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