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| title = Master of Kung Fu | image = MidnightSun02.JPG | caption = Cover of Master of Kung Fu #16 | image_size = | alt = | schedule = | ongoing = Y | genre = Superhero | publisher = Marvel Comics | date = | issues = | main_char_team = Shang-Chi | issn = | writers = | artists = | pencillers = | inkers = | letterers = | colorists = | editors = | creative_team_month = | creative_team_year = | creators = | CEheader = | TPB = | ISBN = | subcat = | altcat = | sort = | addpubcat1 = | nonUS = }}{{Comics reception needed}} Master of Kung Fu was a comic book title published by Marvel Comics from 1974 to 1983. Publication historyThe character Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition #15 (December 1973) by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin.[1] Shang-Chi appeared again in issue #16, and with issue #17 (April 1974) the title was changed to The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu. Amidst the martial arts craze in the United States in the 1970s, the book became very popular, surviving until issue #125 (June 1983), a run including four Giant-Size issues and an Annual. The series began by introducing Shang-Chi as a man raised by his father Fu Manchu to be the ultimate assassin for the would-be world conqueror. In Shang-Chi's first mission, he kills one of his father's old enemies, Dr. Petrie, and learns of Fu Manchu's true, evil nature. Disillusioned, Shang-Chi swears eternal opposition to his father's ambitions and fights him as an agent of British intelligence, under the orders of Sir Denis Nayland Smith. The series was an instant sales success. Though Englehart and Starlin soon left as the creative talent for the title, its success grew once writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy, began collaborating in issues #22. Comics historian Les Daniels observed that "Ingenious writing by Doug Moench and energetic art by Paul Gulacy brought Master of Kung Fu new life."[2] Their critically acclaimed run continued, with short gaps, until #51 when Gulacy was replaced by artist Jim Craig. Craig was later succeeded by Mike Zeck who became the regular penciller in issue #64 (1978). {{quote box|width=275px|tstyle=font-size:110%|title=Prologue from Master of Kung Fu:|quote="Call me Shang-Chi, as my father did when he raised me and molded my mind and my body in the vacuum of his Honan, China retreat. I learned many things from my father: That my name means 'The Rising and Advancing of a Spirit', that my body could be forged into a living weapon through the discipline of kung fu, and that it might be used for the murder of a man called Dr. Petrie.Since then I have learned that my father is Dr. Fu Manchu, the most insidiously evil man on earth...and that to honor him would bring nothing but dishonor to the spirit of my name." |sstyle=font-weight:bold|source=–Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu}} Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Shang-Chi on Bruce Lee,[3] Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston (often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand-nephew of Sherlock Holmes) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield (after Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, the real-life name of Fu Manchu creator Sax Rohmer) resembling David Niven.[4] Moench introduced other film-based characters, including ones modeled after Groucho Marx (Rufus T. Hackstabber)[5] and W. C. Fields (Quigley J. Warmflash).[6] Moench continued for a long tenure, though the title did not again receive the same level of acclaim as the Gulacy period until Gene Day, who had previously been inking the book, took over penciling in #100 (1981). Despite critical success, sales lagged. Day died of a heart attack after finishing issue #120, and Moench left the book after #122. The character's long-running battle with his father ended with #118 and with the main storyline resolved, the book was canceled with issue #125 as Shang-Chi retired to a passive life as a fisherman in a village. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Moench's work on Master of Kung-Fu with artists Gulacy, Mike Zeck, and Day sixth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".[7] In 1988, Marvel published a new Master of Kung Fu story in Marvel Comics Presents #1-8. It reunited Shang-Chi with most of the original supporting cast and featured Moench again writing, with Tom Grindberg penciling.[8] Supporting charactersThe series, especially as written by Doug Moench was notable for its strong supporting characters. As they evolved these characters became nearly as integral to the series as Shang-Chi himself:
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References1. ^{{cite book| last = Cooke| first = Jon B.| title = Comic Book Artist Collection: Volume 3| publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing| year = 2005| pages = 6–7|chapter= Everybody was Kung Fu Watchin'! The Not-So-Secret Origin of Shang-Chi, Kung-Fu Master!|isbn = 1-893905-42-X}} {{Shang-Chi}}2. ^{{cite book|last = Daniels|first = Les|authorlink = Les Daniels|title = Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics|publisher = Harry N. Abrams|year = 1991|page = 159|isbn = 9780810938212}} 3. ^{{cite news | url= http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/07gulacy.html | title =A Master of Comics Art - Artist Paul Gulacy and His Early Days at Marvel| first=Jon B. |last=Cooke | work=Comic Book Artist | issue =7 | date= February 2000}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last = Cooke|first = Jon B.|title = A Master of Comics Art: Artist Paul Gulacy and His Early Days at Marvel|journal = Comic Book Artist|issue = 7|page = 32|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = February 2000|url = http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/07gulacy.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080215033728/http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/07gulacy.html|archivedate=February 15, 2008|deadurl= no|quote= CBA: Did you ever get any other flak? Nowadays, I don't think you could get away with it, because you had Sean Connery, for instance, for a period of time. There were a lot of recognizable characters, James Coburn, and people like that... PAUL: Marlene Dietrich... CBA: Yeah, right. [laughs] You were grabbing them from all over! PAUL: Don't forget David Niven [laughter]—who the hell cares about David Niven?—but we found a place for him in there.}} 5. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hackstabber.htm|title= Rufus T. Hackstabber|first= Jeff|last= Christiansen|date= August 13, 2004|publisher= The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131014100120/http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hackstabber.htm|archivedate= October 14, 2013|deadurl= no}} 6. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/warmflash.htm|title= Quigley J. Warmflash|first= Jeff|last= Christiansen|date= August 11, 2004|publisher= The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130704081048/http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/warmflash.htm|archivedate= July 4, 2013|deadurl= no}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/447/top-10-1970s-marvels/ |title=Top 10 1970s Marvels |first=Jason |last=Sacks |date=September 6, 2010 |publisher=Comics Bulletin |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6IbkCDdAA?url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/447/top-10-1970s-marvels/ |archivedate=August 3, 2013 |deadurl=yes |accessdate=August 3, 2013 |df= }} 8. ^{{cite book|last=Comtois|first=Pierre|editor1-last=Morrow|editor1-first=John|title=Marvel Comics in the 1980s: An Issue by Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon|date=December 2014|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|page=209|quote=At first, the comic was seen as ... a place where fan-favorite strips could be brought back with one or more of their original creators on the job but without much financial risk to the company. In fact, the first issue of the series featured a Man Thing serial by Steve Gerber and Tom Sutton and a Master of Kung Fu serial by Doug Moench and Tom Grindberg.}} 9. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/midnightsun.htm|title= Midnight Sun|first= Jeff|last= Christiansen|date= October 10, 2004|publisher= The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20121102071923/http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/midnightsun.htm|archivedate=November 2, 2012 |deadurl= no|accessdate= January 31, 2013}} 10. ^{{Marvunapp|http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/shadslsr.htm|Shadow Slasher}} 3 : Comics by Doug Moench|Comics by Steve Englehart|Marvel Comics titles |
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