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In the book Treasure Island, one of Long John Silver's pirates is named Israel Hands. In the 1954 film Long John Silver, a return expedition to Treasure Island finds Israel Hands, who was believed to be dead. He is alive but blind. "Israel Hands" is a song on the Sullivan album Cover Your Eyes. Hands appears alongside Blackbeard as an antagonist in the third issue of DC Comics' Return of Bruce Wayne miniseries. Hands appears in Björn Larsson's novel Long John Silver, living his retirement as a bartender in London, where he meets Long John Silver when interviewing Daniel Defoe.
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