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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Asian Avenger LADY SHIVA in RICHARD DRAGON: KUNG-FU FIGHTER "Arena of No Exit!" Conclusion

(Actually, you'll see this in a couple of pages

It hasn't happened in the narrative...yet!)

Richard Dragon meets Sandra Woosan, sister of Caroline Woosan, who was slain by The Swiss, right-hand man to the criminal Guano Cravat while under Dragon's protection!
Though he killed The Swiss, Dragon still wants vengeance on Cravat for ordering Caroline's death, and Sandra provides Cravat's current location!
Note: Though Sandra is Caroline's sister, her reason for aiding Dragon is not as benevolent as it appears to be...

Lady Shiva's history after this tale can be seen below...

...in DC's Who's Who Update 1987 #3 (1987)

Since then, due to constant rebooting of the DC Comics Multiverse, many of these details have been altered, and the numerous animated/live action/video game versions of her bear little resemblance to the character you've just read about!

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Kung-Fu Master: Richard Dragon

Dragon's Fists

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Asian Avenger LADY SHIVA in RICHARD DRAGON: KUNG-FU FIGHTER "Arena of No Exit!" Part 1

Along with Marvel's Elektra and the Daughters of the Dragon (Misty Knight and Colleen Wing)...

...she's the best-known female martial artist in comics (including movie/TV adaptations)...and this is her first appearance!

Richard Dragon will be seeing Sandra Woosan again!

As will you, dear dear reader...

NEXT WEEK!

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Monday, February 22, 2021

FAST WILLIE JACKSON "Hannibal in 'King of Kung Fu' "

In the mid-1970s a Black publisher launched a teen humor comic book...

...that looked remarkably-like the Archie Comics lineup...except they weren't white!

In this Archie-clone series, Hannibal is a bald Big Moose/not too bright jock-type perfect for this never-reprinted tale by publisher/editor/scripter Bertram Fitzgerald and artist "Gus LeMoine" from Fitzgerald's Fast Willie Jackson #6 (1977) tale capitalizing on the mid-1970s Kung Fu Kraze!

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Black Samurai

(The Complete 1970s Book Series)
and the movie based on the first book

Black Samurai
starring Jim Kelly

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Kung-Fu Christmas SAMURAI SANTA "Samurai on 34th Street" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Kung-Fu Kris Kringle...

......Sam, a down-on-his luck ronin working as a department store sales clerk, becomes the store's Santa Claus after the old one drinks himself into an early "retirement".

Returning home, still in his Santa suit, Sam stops a mugging and...

Though inker Jim Lee has become a comics creative powerhouse as an editor/writer/penciler/inker, writer Phillip Clarke, Jr never became major contributor to the comics field.

Penciler Don Secrease has done a lot of work for AC Comics and his own strip, Terranauts, after premiering as a b/w comic, has become a webcomics mainstay!