Before We Begin Our Final Summer Blogathon Entry...
...a brief history of the story's primary villain, Fu Manchu!
NOTE: May Be NSFW / NSFS due to Racial Stereotypes.
One other note...
Back Cover of Marvel's Savage Fists of Kung Fu Treasury Edition (1975) by Gil Kane and Dan Adkins.
The tabloid-sized, cardboard-covered comic reprinted the story from Marvel's one-shot b/w magazine Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Special (1974).
Fu himself is colored a bright "lemon" yellow, though his son, Shang-Chi and Sons of the Tiger leader, Lin Sun, are colored a light orange.
"Heroic" Asians such as the Green Hornet's Kato, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Jimmy Woo, as well as innocent Asian supporting characters were colored with normal Caucasian skin-tone or light-orange skin, while villains (like Marvel's Yellow Claw) and henchmen (as well as Japanese soldiers during World War II and North Koreans during the Korean War) were colored that bright yellow.
This was largely-due to limited color printing technology which only offered a 64-color range consisting of cyan, magenta, and yellow in solid and screened color.
That changed in the 1980s, when hand-painted, then computer-generated, color with the full-color range of photography and printing became the norm for comics!
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