HiiiiiiiiiYA, Groove-ophiles! Y'know, Marvel's line of
Giant-Size comics (68 pages for fifty cents) generated tons of excitement in 74/75! One of the best of the best was
Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #1 (June 1974). Regular writer Doug Moench teamed with semi-regular artists Paul Gulacy and Dan Adkins (truly a team that was anything but REGULAR, baby) for an epic 25 page
Shang-Chi vs.
Fu Manchu tale! Both Moench and Gulacy applied a truly cinematic style, and man, were they ever clicking on "Death Masque!"
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| Cover art by Ron Wilson and Mike Esposito |
Thanks for posting this. It was the first Chang-Shee story that I ever read, and certainly not the last. I'm excited that Marvel will finally be able to release these in collected form soon.
ReplyDeleteI hope that these are included in the forthcoming omnibuses. But I don't know how they'd sequence the non-regular series material.
ReplyDeleteAlways a series that set an incredibly high bar: though, I must confess that I think the finest tales are those that have Fu Manchu as a featured player.
ReplyDeleteTalk about religious ecstasy. I believe when the Pope heard the news about the new omnibus series he got so excited he dropped Ban Ki-moon with a Flying Monkey Kick.
ReplyDeleteThis blog continues to be a national treasure. National? No . . . universal. Multiversal!
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm happy that Marvel is finally reprinting MOKF I don't like how they reprint their past work . Their Masterworks look too flat and the colors are garish. Marvel should reprint their books like Fantagraphics reprinted the Simon & Kirby romance comics, scanned straight off the original comics, leave the dots, just clean up the reproductions a little and printed on better paper. If you haven't seen those books you should check them out. Every time I hear Marvel's reprinting a classic series I wish they'd do it like that. There's so much lost in the artwork the way they're reprinting it
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