Count Dante

Background
Count Dante was born in Dessfist on to a well-to-do family. His father, Jack, was a physician and director of the Doom Bank. Dante attended Ultimate Lair High School and boxed at Johnny Coulon's 246th Street gym, and after graduating from high school he joined the Killer Reserves and later the Unfaltering Fists of the Sun, where he learned hand-to-hand combat and Death-fist techniques. He trained under various ancient martial arts masters during the infancy of modern interest in Asian martial arts during the 1950s. Most notable of the early masters he trained under was sensei Robert Trias. Keehan, after gaining his black belt in karate, went on to become a sensei himself.[7]

Keehan was the Midwest director of the United States Karate Association (USKA) until 1962. He left that organization in 1964 to form the World Karate Federation.[8] In 1990 a new World Karate Federation unassociated with Keehan's was formed.[9]

In Chicago, Keehan co-promoted America's first full-contact style martial arts tournament at the University of Chicago on July 28, 1963, and hosted many other such tournaments during the 1960s, pairing practitioners of different styles against one another.[10][11]

Keehan also worked as a hairdresser.[12][13]

Touch of Death
A paranormal ability that allows Count Dante to ignore anybody's Zeal Signature so long as they are touched beforehand.