Talk:Ace of spades

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I'm removing this redirect to the song. At the very least it should go to the disambiguation page, and possibly to the page about the playing card. For consistency with Ace of Spades, it's going to the latter. toll_booth 14:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

There should be a picture of a typical distincive-looking ace of spades card in here, since that's what the card's known for. 70.18.105.41 (talk) 22:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I am trying to find a reliable(!) source determining why the Ace of Spades is considered a Death card, but always run into the explanation offered here too: That Americans used it as such in Vietnam. Sometimes there's the nebulous addition that in fortune telling the spade or the ace of spades means death or misfortune and to that I cannot find a proper source either. The only "official" death card seems to be found in the Tarot (as Nr. 13 of the "great Arcana") and since the playing cards of a "normal" deck are said to be the same as the tarot cards of the "small Arcana" (namely the swords), the Ace would have to be the one of swords and cannot be the death card (if I get this right...) The few cartomancy sources actually stating that the ace of spades means death are completely unsourced and appear to simply assert the fact. Anybody? -87.153.58.239 (talk) 13:15, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

idk if this helps anyone but I was reading Vietnam-Perkasie by William Ehrhardt and he reports the card being put on bodies, as well as receiving full decks with just aces. 63.155.106.66 (talk) 19:56, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

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Wartime origin?
Re: War section. In Action Comics #16, from September 1939, Superman deals out a deck of cards to assembled criminals running gambling operations around the city. At that time, he says, I’m going to pass out these cards among you. One of them is the ace of spades. –– If whoever receives that card isn’t out of the city in twelve hours, I’ll track him down … and end his life with my own hands! Could this be the origin of the use of that card in subsequent U.S. wars? — Spike  Toronto  11:44, 5 December 2018 (UTC)  P.S. In the end, all the cards Superman passes out are aces of spades, which would seem to somewhat foreshadow actions taken some 30 years later in Vietnam by U.S. soldiers and the playing card companies. — Spike  Toronto  11:55, 5 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Seems unlikely since card already known to be used by English and Indian troops as far back as the First World War. In any case, it’s speculation - and therefore unusable in Wikipedia - unless you can find a published source to back up your idea. Interesting to know though, thanks for sharing :- Dakinijones (talk) 05:28, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Spade
The Ace of Spades (also known as the Spadille and Death Card[1]) is traditionally the highest and most valued card 47.218.246.225 (talk) 20:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

War Uses Undue Weight notice
It would be helpful if the person who added the possible undue weight notice to the section left some info here on the talk page about the nature of their concern. Ersonally I’m not seeing any undue weight but would prefer not to remove the note unless I knew for sure that the problem had been resolved or that other editors were happy with the section as it stands. Dakinijones (talk) 05:32, 22 March 2023 (UTC)