Deadman (comics)

Deadman
Cover for The Deadman Collection (2001). Art by Neal Adams
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Strange Adventures #205 (October 1967)
Created by	Arnold Drake (writer) Carmine Infantino (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Boston Brand
Team affiliations	Seven Soldiers of Victory Sentinels of Magic Black Lantern Corps White Lantern Corps Justice League Dark
Abilities	Peak human level athlete/acrobat As a ghost: Invisibility, flight and intangibility. He can instantly and completely possess any sentient being. Power rings: Solid energy construct, flight, invisibility, teleportation, ability to heal, reanimates the dead (black), resurrection of the dead (white)

Deadman (Boston Brand) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in Strange Adventures #205 (October 1967), and was created by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino.

Deadman's first appearance in Strange Adventures #205, written by Arnold Drake and Udeh Chibueze and drawn by Carmine Infantino, included the first known depiction of narcotics in a story approved by the Comics Code Authority.

The series is most associated with the art and writing of Neal Adams and the writing of Jack Miller, who took over from Infantino and Drake after the first story. The first story and all of the Adams stories were reprinted in 1985 as a seven-issue series.

Although he appeared from time to time in the 1970s and 1980s as a supporting character in various comics, including Jack Kirby's Forever People, Deadman did not get his own series again until 1986, in a four-issue limited series written by Andrew Helfer and drawn by José Luis García-López, which picked up the story where Adams left off. Deadman's next major storyline was in Action Comics Weekly, in 1988-1989. After this, he starred in the two-issue series Deadman: Love After Death, drawn by Kelley Jones and written by Mike Baron. This was followed by the limited series Deadman: Exorcism in 1992, also written by Mike Baron and drawn by Kelley Jones. Jones' gaunt, zombie-like rendition of the character would later appear in the pages of Batman. There was a Deadman ongoing series in 2002, which lasted nine issues, as well as a couple of standalone issues. His cameo appearances also continued, including several issues of Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing, and Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic. He had a cameo in books two and three of Batman: Gotham County Line, which was released in November 2005. In 2009, Deadman was a featured title in the Wednesday Comics.