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[[File:Deadman_400x600_3578.jpg|frame|[[Take That|This is how you people spend life?!]]]]
So yeah. Lemme tell you a bit about myself. The name's Boston Brand, aka [[Meaningful Name|Deadman.]] Before I was killed I used to be a circus trapeze artist who performed under that name and used the nice costume you see before you. I admit I wasn't the most pleasant guy under the big top (I was co-owner and would ''you'' put up with drunken lion tamers and embezzling employees?) and my girlfriend didn't care for my macabre style for my act, but life was good, until it ended. During one of my performances, I was assassinated by someone in the crowd with a hook for a hand. The bullet shattered my back, but it was the fall that killed me. Despite all this, my spirit was given the ability to possess any living being by Rama Kushna, a powerful Hindu goddess, so I could find whoever killed me and earn some justice in this world.
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I first appeared in ''Strange Adventures'' #205 (October, 1967). Initially I was written by Arnold Drake and drawn by Carmine Infantino, although they got replaced by Jack Miller and [[Neal Adams]] after my first appearance, and I got to be depicted by an artist who would redefine the medium's visual style as radically as I tried to with the trapeze act.
So I came back from my meeting with Rama, and found a bunch of smugglers who were using the circus as a front for smuggling drugs (the first [[Comics Code]] approved story to have narcotics mentioned, years before [[Stan Lee]] butted heads with the CCA with his ''[[Spider
Been through a few other things over the years. Rama Kushna had me battle a sorceress over the lives of some deceased costumed heroes. At the same time I paid my dear brother a personal visit, only for him to die while I was hanging around doing the same act I used to do before I was killed. Then I helped run this city where supervillains could live and behave themselves, only it got invaded and destroyed and they were set loose again.
However then something people call the [[Blackest Night]] appeared and suddenly everyone was coming back to life, sorta. This included my own body. Turns out everyone had been possessed by black rings and were made to serve some master of death. At the end of it a bunch of [[Green Lantern|rainbow coloured ringslingers]] managed to defeat this guy, but not before some white rings went and resurrected a [[Aquaman
Oh well, at least I also got to star on TV in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''.
* [[Anti
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Thanks to that Entity during [[Brightest Day]] but afterwards I was dead again
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: For ''two'' cosmics; first Rama Kushna made me a ghost to do her biding and than that white ring dragged me all over the universe.
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