YMMV / Robert Rankin

• Aluminium Christmas Trees: Count Dante was actually a real person. His real name was John Keehan, and he ran a dojo in Chicago in the '70s. He was famous for being one of the few masters willing to train black and Hispanic students, producing scarily competent fighters, running self-aggrandizing ads in comic books (probably where Rankin got the idea) and being... how to put this politely... completely bugfuck nuts.