Appearing in "Shall I Love the Bird of Fire?"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Iron Fist (Daniel Rand) ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Kou-Hun-Shih-Che (Messengers Who Seize Souls) (First appearance)
- Niu T'ou the Black (First appearance)
- Ma-Mien the White Ox (First appearance)
- Dhasha Khan (First appearance)
- his soldiers
Other Characters:
- Wendell Rand (Only in flashback)
- Heather Duncan (Only in flashback)
- Harold Meachum (Only in flashback)
- Jade (First appearance)
- Colleen Wing
- Prof. Lee Wing (Professor of Oriental Studies, Columbia University)
- Silver Dragon
Locations:
- New York City
- Himalayan Highlands (Only in flashback)
- Feng-Tu (First appearance) (unnamed)
Synopsis for "Shall I Love the Bird of Fire?"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in ""An Ending!""
Featured Characters:
- Sons of the Tiger (Disbands)
- Abe Brown (Leaves)
- Bob Diamond (Leaves)
- Lin Sun (Leaves)
Supporting Characters:
- Lotus Shinchuko
- White Tiger (Hector Ayala) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Bill Mantlo
- George Pérez
- Tiger God (First appearance) (Cameo)
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis for ""An Ending!""
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- Sequence 1 Shall I Love the Bird of Fire?
- Iron Fist becomes the feature character of this series beginning with this issue.
- The origin of Iron Fist is retold in this story.
- First appearance of Jade, the Firebird.
- Sequence 2 An Ending!
- First appearance of the White Tiger (Hector Ayala); origin revealed in this issue.
- The Sons of the Tiger disband in this issue. The White Tiger takes over as the feature character for these story-arcs.
- The Spanish dialogue for this issue is translated by Yvette Pérez.
- This issue includes a Shang-Chi frontspiece pinup by Jim Starlin, although Shan-Chi himself does not appear in this issue.
- Includes a one-page editorial by Archie Goodwin titled "Now! Destroy Your Enemies (And Maybe Even Yourself)!"
- Includes an eight-page article entitled "Dragon of the Mind".
Trivia
- Bill Mantlo and George Pérez make guest appearances in the "An Ending!"
See Also
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Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Deadly Hands of Kung Fu article at Wikipedia
- Deadly Hands of Kung Fu series index at the Grand Comics Database
- Shang-Chi at Wikipedia
- Shang-Chi at the Marvel Directory
- Sons of the Tiger article at Wikipedia