5/19/2023 0 Comments Deadman, Book Two by Neal Adams![]() ![]() ![]() It also was not the last one as the character continued to appear in limited series as well as a guest star in other titles. In the mid-1980s, he finally got a new series, but it was a short one. Nevertheless, Strange Adventures was canceled soon after.ĭeadman became a recurring supporting character in the DC Universe. After that, when Neal Adams took over the series, Deadman got a new mission: to establish a balance between Good and Evil. Brand didn’t really die as a Hindu god named “Rama Kushna” gave his spirit the power to possess any living being in order to find his killer.Įven if Arnold Drake left the title after two issues over creative differences, Deadman continued his search-and found the truth. The story began when Boston Brand, a circus trapeze artist who performed under the name Deadman, is shot dead during a performance by the mysterious murderer known as the Hook. Drake was interested to use the Zen movement, Hare Krishna, and things like that in a story to explore the “notion of a being that was neither living nor dead.” It’s a bit more complicated than that as the late 1960s saw an interest in the mystic growing in America. ![]() Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Carmine Infantino for DC Comics in the pages of Strange Adventures #205 (October 1967), Deadman was a tough sell at first as the Comics Code Authority frightened the editor into staying away from potential horror material. ![]()
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