Trivia
Count Dante is one of the many eccentric characters referred to in Robert Rankin's Brentford stories. A number of characters in these stories claim to have learned 'dimac' (presumably a corruption of Dim Mak, the "Touch of Death" advertised by Keehan) from a manual written by Dante. Dante himself is referred to as wearing a mask and living in hiding to avoid murder by the hidden martial masters whose secrets he has made public.
Furthering Keehan's legacy, there is Bob Calhoun, a San Francisco a rock musician and professional wrestler calling himself Count Dante. Calhoun plays Dante as an infomercial huckster that appears to be both a tribute to and a parody of Keehan's original persona. He wrestled for San Francisco’s punk rock lucha libre promotion Incredibly Strange Wrestling from 1997-2003. The promotion was best known for encouraging its audience to hurl corn tortillas at the wrestlers. Dante's most frequent opponents were The Poontangler and El Homo Loco. The Calhoun's band is called Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society and they have pressed two self-released CDs: “The Deadliest Man Alive” (1999) and “Fat Power” (2006).
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