Descrizione
Cod.EA
SHANG – CHI MAESTRO DEL KUNG – FU
PRIMA SERIE (formato gigante )
editoriale Corno, 1976
la memorabile collana corno che ha fatto conoscere all’ ottuso e rozzo pubblico italiano la commovente ed incazzatissima saga nippo-americana, ispirata alle capriole marziali di Bruce Lee, alle prodezze sushi di David Carradine, ai capitomboli ninja di Itto Ogami, alle imprecazioni zen di David Sylvian e alla virilità bonsai di Carl Douglas
Contiene inoltre : I FIGLI DELLA TIGRE
redazionali : IL JUDO di Cesare Barioli
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME
LEGENDA STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE
condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)
condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5
condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7
condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5
condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4
per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto
a disposizione moltissimi numeri delle altre serie Corno , Star e Marvel, sono gradite le mancoliste.
I TEMPI IN CUI VIVIAMO SONO SEMPRE PIU’ DURI, E ANCHE SOPRAVVIVERE SU EBAY STA DIVENTANDO OGNI GIORNO PIU’ DIFFICILE. SE VOLETE CONTINUARE A DELIZIARVI O INFURIARVI LEGGENDO E USUFRUENDO DELLE NOSTRE ATIPICHE ED INCONVENZIONALI INSERZIONI, VISTO CHE NON COMPRATE MAI NULLA, AIUTATECI ALMENO CON IL VOSTRO APPOGGIO E IL VOSTRO SOSTEGNO, PER UNA VOLTA TANGIBILE E COMMENSURABILE. ACCETTIAMO OGNI FORMA DI CONTRIBUTO E SOVVENZIONE, AL LIMITE ANCHE DANARO, MA VANNO BENE PURE PROSCIUTTI, FORMAGGI, SIGARETTE, BUONI PASTO, BIGLIETTI DEL TRAM, LIQUORI , POLLAME E ORTAGGI.
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- Fu Manchu’s VTOL jet
Synopsis
Shang-Chi (Earth-616), back in New York, visits a Chinese restaurant called Kwang Tung’s. When he has finished eating, he opens his fortune cookie to find a very personal message: “A man very close to you will seek your death, Shang-Chi.” With only an instant’s warning, he dodges. A robed figure splits his table with a sword. The other diners flee. Shang-Chi takes a polearm from the wall but quickly learns that it’s only papier-mâché. Kitchen knives prove more substantial, letting him block the assassin’s sword, as does a chandelier that he uses to swing into his opponent and knock him out.
The other waiters pour into the room, but they fare no better than the first attacker … except for the one who waited on him. This man can take a punch full in the face and keep smiling. Shang-Chi finally dumps him on a cart and rolls him through the front window. He has recognized their fighting styles as Si-Fan, so he knows that his father, Fu Manchu, has once more tried to kill him.
Outside the restaurant he encounters Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Black Jack Tarr. Smith has learned that Fu is about to carry out another nefarious plot, but there’s no time to wait for backup. Shang-Chi tells them that he’s already going to Fu’s headquarters and that they should keep clear. They drive away.
By the time Shang-Chi reaches the building on foot and sneaks inside, Smith and Tarr have gotten themselves captured. He follows Fu, Smith, Tarr, and their captors up an elevator shaft, where the captives are loaded onto a small jet. Shang-Chi flips into a wheel well as the jet takes off. He finds the cargo hold filled with nitroglycerin.
Some time later, the jet lands beside a cave entrance. Fu’s people take the captives and the explosives into the cave. Shang-Chi sneaks inside to hear Fu say, “You have pried into my affairs for the final time. … What was to have been … a simple symbolic victory … has now taken on additional significance by serving as the means to execute you.” He lights a trail of gunpowder with a torch.
Shang-Chi attacks, but he has to keep one eye on the fuse. At the last second he snuffs out the flame. His battle with the last assassin, though, upset a vial of nitroglycerin. Smith tells him it’s unstable and could explode at any second. Shang-Chi rushes to the other end of the cave and throws the vial into the air, where it explodes harmlessly. Only then does he realize what Fu meant by a “symbolic victory”—this end of the cave opens out on the face of Mount Rushmore.
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- Fu Manchu
- Si-Fan assassins
- Wilhelm Bucher/Raymond Strawn (First appearance) (Origin revealed)
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- Adolf Hitler (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
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Synopsis
Black Jack Tarr arrives at New York Harbor, where he finds Shang-Chi gazing at the Statue of Liberty. After a brief quarrel, he tells Shang-Chi that Sir Denis Nayland Smith requests his presence. On a small jet bound for South America, Smith tells Shang-Chi that Fu Manchu is en route to South America to acquire the plans for a secret Nazi weapon—plans currently in possession of a former Gestapo agent named Wilhelm Bucher.
The jet lands by the Amazon, where they meet Smith’s contact, Raymond Strawn. Smith has hired Strawn as a guide to take them down the Amazon. Strawn is bitter and belligerent and refuses to have any dealings with a man of Chinese descent, much less a man who is also the son of Fu Manchu. While Smith and Tarr try to change his mind, Shang-Chi fades into the jungle.
Onboard Strawn’s boat, Smith tells Tarr what he knows about Bucher. He is a xenophobe, worse than Hitler, if such is possible. On a mission to deliver documents to Japan, he and his Japanese assistant took refuge in a bunker during an air raid. A bomb partially collapsed the bunker and trapped Bucher. The Japanese officer deserted him. Another bomb fell on the bunker, but somehow Bucher escaped, albeit with his face badly scarred. The documents—the same plans Fu Manchu wants—he took with him to South America.
Before long they find themselves at the mercy of Si-Fan assassins. The assassins drop down out of the tree branches hanging over the river, and Smith is knocked overboard.
From the shore, Shang-Chi spies a hungry alligator preparing to eat Smith. He dives into the water and fights the creature off, returning Smith to the steamer. They are horrified to see that Strawn has shot all the assassins, all of whom carried melee weapons.
Before long, Strawn’s vessel catches up with the one allegedly transporting Fu Manchu. Strawn shoots at the boat, a paddlewheeler, thus giving up any chance of surprise. Shang-Chi takes the initiative and dives back into the water, to resurface on the second boat. He knocks out the pilot and cuts the engines. He incapacitates a horde of Si-Fan killers, but there is no sign of Fu Manchu. Interrogating one of the assassins, Shang-Chi learns that Fu Manchu was never aboard the boat. He is, instead, traveling via helicopter to meet Bucher.
Strawn removes a mask to reveal that he is actually Bucher and tries to shoot Shang-Chi. Although Shang-Chi dives off the paddlewheeler, a bullet strikes him in the shoulder. Strawn forces Smith and Tarr onto the other boat and makes his escape.
Meanwhile, Fu Manchu secretly monitors the affair from his personal helicopter. He remarks that he saw through Bucher’s trap and that his plan is on schedule. Smith tells Tarr that he knew Strawn was Bucher but that Strawn was the only way to get to Fu Manchu.
Notes
- This issue is part one of a two-part story (second part in next issue)
- Shang-Chi makes references to his first fight with Black Jack Tarr, which took place in Master of Kung Fu #17 (in Italy in SCC #3).
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- Mrs. Dalwoody, the landlady
- Master Kee (Vision)
- Dr. Kramer
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Synopsis
Before she can land her killing blow, her hand is blocked by the hand of Lin Sun, who discovers the truth about Lotus. She is more than a follower of the Silent Ones, and less as well. She is controlled by an apparatus hidden at the base of her neck, a bit of machinery that could possibly kill her if removed. As Abe watches in mute horror, Lin Sun considers what to do before finally acting without mercy…
Continued to next issue…
Notes
Lotus Shinchuko “unofficially” joins the Sons of the Tiger in this issue.
