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Volume

1

Price

0.20 USD

Pages

36

Indicia Frequency

bi-monthly

Publisher's Age Guidelines

Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Indicia / Colophon Publisher

Marvel Comics Group

Brand

Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]

Editing

Roy Thomas

Master of Kung Fu / cover / 1 page

Script

?

Pencils

Ron Wilson ?; Ernie Chan ?; John Romita (alterations); Jim Starlin ?

Inks

John Romita (alterations); Ernie Chan

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

They call him Black Jack!

Genre

martial arts

Characters

Shang Chi; Black Jack Tarr

Indexer Notes

Possible Wilson pencils and Romita alterations per Nick Caputo, 2006.
According to the Back Issue magazine #105, page 6, this cover was penciled by Jim Starlin and inked by Ernie Chan.

Lair of the Lost!

Master of Kung Fu / comic story / 19 pages

Script

Steve Englehart; Jim Starlin (co-plot)

Pencils

Jim Starlin

Inks

Al Milgrom

Colors

George Roussos

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

Genre

martial arts

Characters

Shang Chi; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Black Jack Tarr (first appearance); Fu Manchu; Tak; nameless taxi driver; Tarr's men

Synopsis

Sir Denis Nayland Smith hires Black Jack Tarr to kill Shang-Chi in his house of deadly traps. After just barely defeating Black Jack Tarr, Shang Chi confronts sir Denis and reveals that he had been tricked into killing Dr. Petrie and that he now has disassociated himself from his evil father Fu Manchu.

Indexer Notes

Script credits from Steve Englehart via Darrel McCann on the GCD Error List (17 November 2004).

Steve Englehart, Jim Starlin, and Al Milgrom appear as muggers on pages 1-3.

Missives to the Master! / letters page / 1 page

Script

Steve Englehart

Pencils

Jim Starlin (illustration)

Inks

Al Milgrom (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When I first saw the ad for The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu....

• 3rd (third) appearance of Shang-Chi
• 1st (first) appearance of Black Jack Tarr, an ally of Shang-Chi
• [December 2019 - it is rumored that Shang-Chi is looking to cast a professional wrestler]
• Title changes to Master of Kung-Fu, formerly Special Marvel Edition