Real Name: Holt

Year Born: 1967

Currently Resides: DFW, Texas

Currently Collects: Star Wars - select figures and other items, diecast Mercury Cougars, "Firefly" and "Serenity" items, vintage and new home video games and systems

First Collection as an "Adult": Comics & sports cards - started in early college

Past Collections: Beanies, Lord of the Rings, Vintage Hot Wheels redlines, Star Wars books and magazines, comic books, sportscards

Main Collectible Today: "Firefly" and "Serenity" memorabilia

Collecting This for: 4 yrs

    Favorite Item in Collection: Original "Firefly" studio production art, and my screen-used Hookah from Inara's shuttle on "Firefly."

    Approximate Number of Items in Collection: 30+

Current Vehicle: 2001 Ford F-150 Supercrew 4x4 & '69 Mercury Cougar XR7 convertible (hobby car)

Dream Vehicle: Love all classic muscle cars from 67-71

Other Hobbies: Figure drawing, playing the drums, soccer, watching sports, Xbox

Favorite Movie: Star Wars (all 6)

Favorite TV Show: Lost, Boston Legal, Stacked, Overhaulin, American Chopper

Favorite Music: Kiss, Van Halen, Saliva, Yellowcard, Motley Crue, Tommy Lee, Rush, Dave Matthews Band

Favorite Food: Burgers - any and all

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Trapeze artist extraordinaire and part-owner of Hills Brothers Circus, Boston Brand performed nightly as "Deadman", a garishly garbed and ghastly disguised figure who played on his audience's most morbid instincts. One evening, at the height of his performance, Brand was murdered, shot in mid-air, by a rifleman with a steel hook for a right hand.

Yet, despite the death of his body, Brand's spirit lived on, a gift from the Eastern deity Rama Kushna for the many kindnesses Brand had performed during his life. Brand's spirit would continue to live, Rama told him, until Brand found the man who had killed him and brought this killer to justice. Brand tracked his killer to the "League of Assasins" and he learned that his killer had murdered him as part of an initiation ritual into the League. His slayer, known as "Hook", was then murdered by the leader of the League of Assasins, a man known as the Sensei.

Denied personal vengeance by the Sensei's act, Brand's spirit confronted Rama Kushna and struck a new bargain: he would be allowed to remain on Earth as a balancing agent between good and evil, until such time as he felt a balance had been struck and his soul was satisfied. That time has not yet come and the spirit of Boston Brand continues to walk the Earth, a Deadman dedicated to the cause of Justice.

Deadman's Powers:

In life, former boxer Boston Brand was an Olympic class athlete and superb hand-to-hand combatant. Now, as Deadman, a disembodied spirit, Brand has been granted by Rama Kushna the power to temporarily inhabit living bodies, taking complete control of that body's actions while the body's consciousness is put to sleep, unaware of it's actions while under Deadman's possession. Though he is invisible and intangible as Deadman, Brand's spirit can still be seen and heard by those of equally supernatural nature, such as the Spectre and the Phantom Stranger.

Deadman is a close associate with the Batman, the Justice League, Aquaman, the Swamp Thing, and many other heroes in our universe. He was first seen in "Strange Adventures" #205 in October 1967, and was created by Carmine Infantino. The great Neal Adams took over with issue #206 and laid out the look that everyone has been trying to copy ever since. Deadman has been drawn as a muscled hero, as a ghostly vapor, and as a skeletal freak. But he never looked better than when Adams drew him.

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