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Issue: Special Collector's Edition Featuring Savage Fists of Kung Fu #1
Publication Date: January 1975
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/02/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 84
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose 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."

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Registration number A699291.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four Color
Dimensions: tabloid
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: One-Shot
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Savage Fists of Kung Fu

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Character(s): Shang Chi; Iron Fist; Sons of the Tiger [Bob Diamond; Lin Sun; Abe Brown]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEditions de Tresor #108 published January 1978
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Shang-Chi's face touched-up by John Romita.
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front and inside back covers. A gallery of covers reprinted from The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series)
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Master Plan of Fu Manchu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Feature(s): Shang-Chi, Iron Fist, and Sons of Tiger
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagKung Fu Special #1 published September 1974
was The Master Plan of Fu Manchu [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Prologue.
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Chapter 1: Iron Fist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?; ? [as The Crusty Bunkers]
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts, superhero
Character(s): Iron Fist; Fu Manchu
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagKung Fu Special #1 published September 1974
was [The Master Plan of Fu Manchu] Chapter 1: Iron Fist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Chapter 2: The Sons of the Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts, superhero
Feature(s): The Sons of the Tiger
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagKung Fu Special #1 published September 1974
was [The Master Plan of Fu Manchu] Chapter 2: The Sons of the Tiger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Chapter 3: The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Character(s): Shang Chi; Fu Manchu
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagKung Fu Special #1 published September 1974
was [The Master Plan of Fu Manchu] Chapter 3: The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Epilogue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagKung Fu Special #1 published September 1974
was [The Master Plan of Fu Manchu] Epilog: [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
First Line: I hear nothing, miss. Perhaps the thieves have fled...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe 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
Disclose Notes: Weiss's co-plot credit from the Steve Englehart web site as reported by Darrel McCann (November 17, 2004).
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The Sons of the Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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: FlagThe 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
Disclose Notes: Origin story of the Sons of the Tiger.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
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: FlagSpecial 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
Disclose Notes: Starlin's co-plot credit from the Steve Englehart web site as reported by Darrel McCann (November 17, 2004).
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Fu Manchu

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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