- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Dick Giordano [as D. Giordano]
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver [as G. Wein]
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino [as L. P. Gregory]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A shining new star
- Genre
- martial arts; superhero
- Characters
- Iron Fist [Danny Rand] (introduction, origin); Wendell Rand (introduction, death in flashback); Heather Rand (introduction, death in flashback); Yu-Ti (introduction); Dragon Kings (introduction); Shu-Hu (introduction); Harold Meachum (introduction, flashback, villain)
- Synopsis
- Iron Fist passes the final tests in his K'un-Lun training and is granted the privilege of immortality if he so chooses. During his final battle with the robot Shu-Hu, Danny remembers how his father was killed by Meachum and his mother gave her life to save his as the Rand family searched for the fabled city of K'un-Lun.
- Reprints
Story dedicated to Bill Everett, creator of Amazing-Man. Iron Fist's origin is influenced by Everett's Aman the Amazing-Man from Amazing Man (Centaur, 1939 series) #5. John Aman is integrated to the Marvel universe in Immortal Iron Fist (Marvel, 2007 series) #12.