Master of Kung Fu
#44
[Regular]
(September 1976)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-06-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860244909
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #131.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Death Day of the Golden Dagger!
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is it! Son vs. father!
- Genre
- martial arts
- Characters
- Shang-Chi; Fu Manchu
- Reprints
-
in Master of Kung Fu (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #11 -
in Shang-Chi Maestro del Kung Fu (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #34 -
in Μάστερ Κούνγκ Φου [Master of Kung Fu] (Kabanas Hellas, 1976 series) #30 -
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #76 (2ème trimestre 1981) [Image inversée [Mirrored]] -
in Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 (2016) - in Master of Kung Fu Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 - Fight Without Pity (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits confirmed 2010 by Al Milgrom.
![Cover Thumbnail for Master of Kung Fu (Marvel, 1974 series) #44 [Regular]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/24/w200/24389.jpg?6996722580131678990)
![Cover Thumbnail for Master of Kung Fu (1974 series) #44 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/892/w100/892349.jpg?-526705795092282441)
Prelude: Golden Daggers (A Death Run)
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- martial arts
- Characters
- Shang-Chi; Leiko Wu; Clive Reston; Ducharme; Shock-wave; Nayland Smith; Dr. Petrie; Fah Lo Suee; Bolo; Kimba
- Synopsis
- Ducharme is revealed to be Nayland Smith's mole inside Fu Manchu's organization. But Smith has not found Fu's mole within his. Clive and Chi, then Leiko, are attacked on the road by masked assassins (presumably the Golden Dagger). The men escape but Leiko does not. In the hospital the wounded Shock-wave implicates Petrie as the mole, then shoots Smith!
- Reprints
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #76 (2ème trimestre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 (2016)
- in Master of Kung Fu Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 - Fight Without Pity (2019)
-
- Keywords
- espionage; martial arts; spies
Indexer Notes
Prelude to a 'Return of Fu Manchu' arc (apparently unnamed)) in 6 chapters, followed by an epilogue.
[no title indexed]
Missives to the Master! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Doug Moench
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letter from Ralph Macchio.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Death Day of the Golden Dagger!
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi -
1.
Prelude: Golden Daggers (A Death Run)
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi -
2.
[no title indexed]
Missives to the Master!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Dennis Forcier
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Steven Tice
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