December 1st, 2009 
rberry 
Next to superheroes fighting crimes with Hostess products, my all time favorite comic book ad featured the mysterious Count Dante who was the “Deadliest Man Alive” and looked like Angel from The Rockford Files. A truly bad-ass picture with hot pink accents, The Black Dragon Fighting Society seemed like an incredible group of warriors to me at the time. His Wikipedia article reveals amazing things including wars with rival dojos and an alleged connection to a $4 million bank robbery. It also blew my mind to learn that Martin Kove, who played the Cobra Kai Dojo Leader Kreese in The Karate Kid attended Dante’s Dojo in the ’70s. How cool is that? I can also credit Count Dante for helping me meet Wil Wheaton. I was wearing a homemade X-Entertainment.com shirt to the 1992 San Diego Comic Convention and he stopped to talk to me about it. Count Dante may not have been the deadliest man alive, but he sure is the friendmakeringest man that’s dead.
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I tried Karate myself…
I wish it had worked out.
I guess I was either not right, or I didn’t find the right Sensei…
Oh, Well…
and………………..He’s a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
no wait………….that’s Shaft
Ya Damn right!
This is a cool article. I wish I could find more information on this guy other than his wiki page. He died pretty young. I was thinking about Kreese from Karate Kid, since you mentioned him, and what a cool villain/bad guy he made. Hey Robert I wish you would make a top 100 list of the best/coolest villains from movies. Roy Batty would be pretty high up there for me. And Clubber Lang sure could talk some trash.