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  • Deadman is the story of an acrobat who is murdered and then granted the power to possess living beings by a Hindu goddess in order to hunt down the killer.

    Filmstalker: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • Deadman is the story of an acrobat who is murdered and then granted the power to possess living beings by a Hindu goddess in order to hunt down the killer.

    Filmstalker: Del Toro to direct Deadman 2006

  • Zombies meet the Old West in "Deadman's Road" by Joe Lansdale.

    REVIEW: The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams 2008

  • Deadman is awesome and Etrigan isn’t nearly as cool when he doesn’t rhyme, but the black rings can pick up no reading from him.

    Comically Challenged: Blackest Night Mini-Series « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • For those of you just joining the show, he or rather his spirit is better known as Deadman, and he can possess and control other people's bodies.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Douglas Wolk 2006

  • For those of you just joining the show, he or rather his spirit is better known as Deadman, and he can possess and control other people's bodies.

    Week 32: Holiday Charm Douglas Wolk 2006

  • Dodman Point, sometimes called the Deadman, which rises to about 370 feet.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • -- The king of Spain's daughter, Stephen answered, adding something or other rather muddled about farewell and adieu to you Spanish onions and the first land called the Deadman and from Ramhead to Scilly was so and so many.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • 'The first land we made it was called the Deadman,' and they sang to the end very vigourously.

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The first land we made, it was called the Deadman,

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

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