found: Roy, T. L. Deadliest man alive!, 2010:title page (Count Dante) page 4 of cover (promoter, showman, karate master and self-proclaimed "Deadliest Man Alive!', John Keehan (a.k.a. "Count Dante") was many things)
found: International Fighting Arts Association Official Black Dragon Fighting Society, website, viewed August 29, 2014:members -- Counte Dante (John Keehan) -- bio (John Keehan AKA Count Dante was born in Beverly, Illinois, on February 2, 1939, and died May 25th, 1975 ; in 1967, Keehan legally changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Danté. DONE AS A JOKE ... mocking the invented pasts and historical lineages of many of his so called peers who then made everyone refer to them as Grandmasters)
found: Chicago Reader online, viewed Sept. 8, 2014:The Life and Death of the Deadliest Man Alive (comic-book readers might know him best as Count Dante, the persona Keehan used to sell membership in his Black Dragon Fighting Society, That year [1967] Keehan legally changed his name to Juan Raphael Dante, telling people that he wanted to reclaim the royal title he lost after his parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1936, during the Spanish civil war. It's never been clear why a south-side Irish guy like Keehan decided he must be a Spanish count, or how he chose his new name (though Mount Carmel High School is located on Dante Avenue)).
