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Issue: Special Collector's Edition Featuring Savage Fists of Kung Fu #1

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Publication Date: January 1975

Issue #1

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 84

ISBN:

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Price: $1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Marv Wolfman [as Marvin Wolfman] (credited)

Notes: Cover: "Special Collector's Edition / Savage Fists of Kung Fu"; Indicia: "Special Collector's Edition featuring Savage Fists of Kung Fu"; Spine: "Savage Fists of Kung Fu Special Collector's Edition."

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Four Color

Dimensions: tabloid

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: squarebound

Publishing Format: One-Shot

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Savage Fists of Kung Fu [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From8

8 Content Items

reprinted 8 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

Savage Fists of Kung Fu

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Gil Kane; John Romita (see notes)

Inker(s): Dan Adkins; John Romita (see notes)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Master of Kung Fu

Character(s): Shang Chi; Iron Fist; Sons of the Tiger [Bob Diamond; Lin Sun; Abe Brown]

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Editions de Tresor #108 published January 1978
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Shang-Chi's face touched-up by John Romita.

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ron Wilson; Keith Pollard (illustrations)

Inker(s): Frank Giacoia; Mike Esposito (illustrations)

Letterer(s): Irv Watanabe

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Inside front and inside back covers. A gallery of covers reprinted from The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series)

[untitled]

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Pérez ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Master Plan of Fu Manchu

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Tony Isabella

Penciller(s): John Buscema

Inker(s): John Buscema

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson

Letterer(s): Annette Kawecki ?

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Shang-Chi, Iron Fist, and Sons of Tiger

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Kung Fu Special #[nn] published January 1974
was The Master Plan of Fu Manchu [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Prologue.

Chapter 1: Iron Fist

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Doug Moench

Penciller(s): Frank McLaughlin

Inker(s): Neal Adams; Dick Giordano; ?; ? [as The Crusty Bunkers]

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson

Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski; ?

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts, superhero

Feature(s): Iron Fist

Character(s): Iron Fist; Fu Manchu

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Kung Fu Special #[nn] published January 1974
was Chapter 1: Iron Fist [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Chapter 2: The Sons of the Tiger

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chris Claremont

Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe

Inker(s): Herb Trimpe

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson

Letterer(s): Charlotte Jetter

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts, superhero

Feature(s): The Sons of the Tiger

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Kung Fu Special #[nn] published January 1974
was Chapter 2: The Sons of the Tiger [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Chapter 3: The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Doug Moench

Penciller(s): Mike Vosburg

Inker(s): Dan Adkins

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson

Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Master of Kung Fu

Character(s): Shang Chi; Fu Manchu

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Kung Fu Special #[nn] published January 1974
was Chapter 3: The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Epilogue

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Tony Isabella

Penciller(s): John Buscema

Inker(s): John Buscema

Colorist(s): Phil Rachelson

Letterer(s): Annette Kawecki ?

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Master of Kung Fu

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Kung Fu Special #[nn] published January 1974
was Epilog: [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Steve Englehart (credited); Alan Weiss (co-plot)

Penciller(s): Alan Weiss (credited)

Inker(s): Al Milgrom (credited)

Colorist(s): Al Wenzel (credited)

Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Master of Kung Fu

First Line: I hear nothing, miss. Perhaps the thieves have fled...

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #2 published June 1974
was Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

Notes: Weiss's co-plot credit from the Steve Englehart web site as reported by Darrel McCann (November 17, 2004).

The Sons of the Tiger

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Dick Giordano

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): Michele Wolfman

Letterer(s): John Costanza; Irv Watanabe (page 4)

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): The Sons of the Tiger

Character(s): Sons of the Tiger [Bob Diamond; Lin Sun; Abe Brown]; Master Kee; Silent Ones; Sui Ti Kama; ninjas

Synopsis: Ninjas attack and mortally wound Lin Sun's adoptive father and kung fu master, Kee. With his dying breath, Master Kee gives Lin some magic tiger jewelry made from jade, and asks him to recruit two former students, Abe Brown and Robert Diamond, in order to stop the assassins. The trail leads to a ninja school/opium den owned by Sui Ti Kama. The three friends, "the Sons of the Tiger", stop Sui Ti Kama, but he is just the pawn of a larger organization known as "the Silent Ones".

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 (4) published April 1974
was Origin of the Tiger's Sons [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

Notes: Origin story of the Sons of the Tiger.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Steve Englehart (plot and script)(credited); Jim Starlin (co-plot)

Penciller(s): Jim Starlin (credited)

Inker(s): Al Milgrom (credited)

Colorist(s): George Roussos (credited)

Letterer(s): Irv Watanabe; Dave Hunt

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Master of Kung Fu

Character(s): Fu Manchu; Cho Lin; Shang Chi

First Line: Enter, now, a world unlike any you have entered before --

Synopsis: Master Cho Lin tests the 14-year old Shang Chi.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Special Marvel Edition #15 published December 1973
was Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]15 pp.

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

Notes: Starlin's co-plot credit from the Steve Englehart web site as reported by Darrel McCann (November 17, 2004).

Fu Manchu

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Gil Kane (signed)

Inker(s): Dan Adkins (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Shang-Chi

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: back cover