What is "resurrection man"

n. (context euphemistic historical English) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

Resurrection Man (real name Mitch Shelley) is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Resurrection man or resurrection men may refer to:

• A term for a " body snatcher"—a person who secretly exhumes dead bodies to sell them
• "The Resurrection Man", a fictional body snatcher and serial killer, the principal villain of the gothic novel serial The Mysteries of London
• Resurrection Men, a 2002 novel by Ian Rankin, thirteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels.
• " Resurrection Men", a 2007 episode of the Scottish crime drama Rebus
• Resurrection Man, a DC Comics superhero character
• Resurrection Man, a 1998 film directed by Marc Evans
• Resurrection Man, a 1994 novel by Eoin McNamee
• Resurrection Man, a 1995 novel by Sean Stewart

Resurrection Man is a 1998 British film, directed by Marc Evans with a screenplay written by Eoin McNamee based on his novel of the same name. The story is loosely based on the real-life " Shankill Butchers", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings of Catholic civilians until their leader, Lenny Murphy, was assassinated by a Provisional IRA hit squad.