Marvel Premiere #21

(March 1975)

Daughters of the Death-Goddess (Table of Contents: 1)

Iron Fist / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script

Tony Isabella (credited)

Pencils

Arvell Jones (credited)

Inks

Vince Colletta (credited as V. Colletta)

Colors

Stan Goldberg (credited as Stan G.)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You are Iron Fist--

Genre

martial arts; superhero

Characters

Iron Fist; Misty Knight (introduction, see note); Colleen Wing; Lee Wing; Ninja (villain); Ward Meachum (villain); Joy Meachum (villain); Batroc (villain); Batroc's Brigade (villain); Death-Cult of Kara-Kai (villain); Shaya (introduction, villain); Ushas (introduction, villain)

Synopsis

Batroc becomes enraged when the Meachums refuse to pay him for failing to kill Iron Fist. Iron Fist arrives at the Wings to find dead cult members lying in rubble but no sign of his friends. Misty Knight arrives and attacks Danny whom she suspects has done something with Colleen. Iron Fist follows the Ninja to the underground Temple of Kali where he finds Lee and Colleen in chains. He battles the daughters of Kali, but the Sacred Volume of Kali is burned up in the conflict. This enrages the Ninja who splits off from Lee Wing whom he has been possessing and prepares to kill Iron Fist.

Reprints

• in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #82 (April 12, 1975) [pages 8-18]
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #73 (5 janvier 1976)
• in Essential Iron Fist (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Iron Fist (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([June] 2011)
• in Iron Fist Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Fury of Iron Fist (2015)
• in Iron Fist : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2017 series) #1974-1975 (juillet 2017)
• in Marvel's Greatest Creators: Iron Fist - Misty Knight (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (July 2019)

Indexer Notes

Misty Knight: (name first mentioned) Marvel Premiere #20 (January, 1975),
(first actual appearance) Marvel Premiere #21. Created by Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones.
In retcon: Marvel Team-Up #64 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne would reveal she had previously appeared as an unnamed character in Marvel Team-Up #1 (1972) by Roy Thomas and Ross Andru. (Note by Fred Snyder, error 8862)

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