(September 1974)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-06-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
No letters page. On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #107, June 1974.
[no title indexed]
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gil Kane; John Romita (alterations)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia; John Romita (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch out, Shang-Chi!
- Genre
- martial arts
- Characters
- Shang Chi; Korain (a samurai)
- Reprints
-
in Kung-Fu (Editorial OEPISA, 1974 series) #8 -
in Meester der Kung Fu (Classics/Williams, 1975 series) #3 -
in Shang-Chi Maestro del Kung Fu (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #6 -
in Μάστερ Κούνγκ Φου [Master of Kung Fu] (Kabanas Hellas, 1976 series) #8 -
in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #41 (June 29, 1974) -
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #66 (3ème trimestre 1979) [Recoloriée [Recolored]] -
in Mästaren på karate (Oscar Caesar, 1993 series) #4/1993 ([7 oktober] 1993) -
in Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016) - in Master of Kung Fu Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 - Weapon of the Soul (2018)
-
- Keywords
- samurai
Indexer Notes
Giacoia cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. Romita provided alterations and redrew the Samurai. The unaltered cover appears in Marvel UK's The Avengers # 41, June 1974.
Cover letter credit from the Danny Crespi files, as posted to Facebook on the Comics History Exchange page by Todd Klein (15 August 2016).
Weapon of the Soul
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (pages 1-14); Doug Moench (pages 15-32)
- Pencils
- Paul Gulacy
- Inks
- Al Milgrom
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Dave Hunt
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I had come to the place called Florida,
- Genre
- martial arts
- Characters
- Shang-Chi; divers; Korain (first appearance, dies); Demmy Marston (first appearance); Bufford Jones; Diana (dies); nameless captain; Chino
- Synopsis
- Small-time hood Demmy Marston wants to collect the reward on Shang Chi's head and hires Korain the samurai, a former affiliate of Fu Manchu's. Korain dies during the battle with Shang-Chi; his body can no longer stand the strain of taking Fu Manchu's exlixir vitae. Marstons girlfriend Diana is killed by Korain's sword.
- Reprints
- in Master of Kung Fu (Marvel, 1974 series) #53 (June 1977)
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #66 (3ème trimestre 1979) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Thor (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #1 (octobre 1983) [Moins [Minus] 1 page]
- in Mästaren på karate (Oscar Caesar, 1993 series) #4/1993 ([7 oktober] 1993) [första svenska översättningen, andra publiceringen / first Swedish translation, second publication]
- in Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
- in Master of Kung Fu Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 - Weapon of the Soul (2018)
-
- Keywords
- Florida; samurai
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Watch out, Shang-Chi!"]
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi -
1.
Weapon of the Soul
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Lionel English
- David Haglund
- Katy Hayhurst
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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