By With the first issues of White Tiger and Iron Fist, it seems like everybody is Kung Fu Fightin' all over again, true believers! Let this old coot take you through some 1970s covers featurin' these dudes, from Deadly Hands of Kung Fu...
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu was a pretty good seller in Marvel's black and white line. They were going to follow this up with an Iron Fist black and white magazine, but somehow it got cancelled. I suspect the cover and story in Deadly Hands #10 were making use of the aborted Iron Fist Magazine #1.
The response to Danny Rand's black and white story must have been pretty good, because he returned in Deadly Hands #19 for a serialized story by Chris Claremont and Rudy Nebres that ran through issue 24.
Naturally, Shang Chi (Master of Kung Fu) couldn't take being replaced by the blonde newcomer. He was forced to fight Iron Fist in Deadly Hands #29.
Howard Chaykin contributed this dynamic Iron Fist pinup, that was also featured in Deadly Hands #29. A skeletal samurai, hot diggity dang! Nuff said.
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