Description
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
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, PICCOLE FIORITURE E UN MINUSCOLO SEGNETTO A BIRO NEI BORDI DI RETROCOPERTINA, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
a disposizione moltissimi numeri delle altre serie Corno , Star e Marvel, sono gradite le mancoliste.
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“A Small Spirit Slowly Shaped…” / MORTE DI UNO SPIRITO
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Fah Lo Suee
- Fu Manchu (Only in flashback)
- Shadow Stalker
- Si-Fan assassins
Locations:
Items:
- ruby eyes of Seth-Amon (last appearance)
Synopsis for
Shang-Chi visits a penny arcade in Times Square to
“observe,” but he does not understand the attraction of the games with
their lights and noises. Black Jack Tarr and Clive Reston pick him up
and tell him that Sir Denis Nayland Smith has been kidnapped. The only
clue is a bamboo tube (used for passing messages; last seen in Special Marvel Edition #16, in Italy in SCMKF # 2).
Shang-Chi opens it and pulls out a note: “we will talk under the tree
where a little spirit was slowly shaped.” He understands that it came
from Fah Lo Suee.
He remembers the tree. Fu Manchu led him there to meet his half sister for the second time (their first meeting appeared in issue #26, in Italy in SCMKF # 12).
Fah Lo Suee showed him a bonsai tree and asked which was more
beautiful: the small tree, meticulously trimmed, or the large tree,
shaped by nature? Shang-Chi could not make a choice. Fah Lo Suee pointed
out that nature is not evil, whereas human agency can be, and that
Shang-Chi himself was being slowly shaped by his father: “some day you
may be called upon to wield your choice.”
Tarr, Reston, and Shang-Chi fly to China. Shang-Chi climbs across
the plane and disappears before Tarr and Reston can exit. He breaks
into his father’s fortress, finds Fah Lo Suee on Fu Manchu’s throne, and
follows her to the tree in the courtyard. She has the ruby eyes of
Pharaoh Seth-Amon (obtained in issue #26, in Italy in SCMKF # 12),
now made into earrings, and is using them to hypnotize members of the
Si-Fan to serve her instead of Fu. She asks Shang-Chi to ally with her
against Fu Manchu. “I cannot now choose between two forms of the same
evil,” he answers. She claps her hands and orders her Si-Fan to kill
him.
Shadow-Stalker leads the attackers. To everyone’s surprise, he
turns and tells Shang-Chi they will fight back to back. Fah Lo Suee
watches the brief battle with dispassion and flees. Shadow-Stalker
explains his decision: together, he and Shang-Chi could beat anyone, so
they should take over the Si-Fan. Shang-Chi demurs. Shadow-Stalker tells
him that Smith is in the dungeon, and he leaves.
Shang-Chi
breaks Smith out of his cell. Only then do Tarr and Reston arrive.
Shang-Chi shows them the ruby eyes, which he took during the fight, and
smashes them together. He thinks, “I have learned that this fortress is
much like the arcade … a place of games I do not understand.”
Notes
- This issue includes the second chronological appearance of Fah Lo Suee
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“The Crystal Connection” / IL LEGAME DI CRISTALLO
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Carlton Velcro (First appearance)
- Razor-Fist (First appearance)
Locations:
- France
- New York
Vehicles:
- seaplane
Synopsis
Shang-Chi meets with Sir Denis Nayland Smith in his New
York townhouse. Black Jack Tarr, Clive Reston, and Doctor Petrie also
attend. Smith has a offer for Shang-Chi: become an informal agent of the
British Secret Service and fight evildoers besides Fu Manchu. Their
current target is a heroin kingpin. Smith takes Shang-Chi to the
Spengler Rehabilitation Clinic and shows him how heroin can destroy the
spirit. Shang-Chi has reservations about methodology but accepts the
offer.
On a seaplane to the Gulf of Lions in southern France, Smith
briefs Shang-Chi on the mission. Reston has become a buyer named Mr.
Blue. He will go on ahead to Carlton Velcro’s lavish estate and make a
large purchase. Instead of leaving with his heroin, though, Reston will
locate Velcro’s warehouse and dispose of its contents, thus bankrupting
Velcro. Shang-Chi and Tarr will use SCUBA gear to reach the estate
through undersea tunnels and create a diversion so that Reston can
escape. Every second counts.
Reston, as Blue, meets Velcro and an unexpected development: an
“employee” named Razor-Fist. The man has had his hands replaced with
swords. He demonstrates their effectiveness by slicing a statue into
pieces. A pair of guards escort Reston to his room. Forty-five minutes
later, on schedule, he distracts the guards and escapes. He also sets
off a silent alarm, which is not part of the plan.
Petrie takes the seaplane over the estate to reconnoiter before
dropping Shang-Chi and Tarr into the sea by parachute. They follow the
tunnels and surface in the grotto. Thanks to the alarm, though, men with
machine guns and black panthers patrol the beach. Tarr disables them
with a concussion bomb.
Reston makes his way to the warehouse and enters through a
window, which sets off another alarm. He finds sacks of heroin piled to
the ceiling, a much larger store than expected, but gamely goes about
slashing the sacks and dousing them with a fire extinguisher. Velcro
sends his two bodyguards to the front entrance and takes some guards to
the warehouse.
Tarr leaves Shang-Chi at the foot of the causeway and tells him
to wait for an explosion. Moments later, some guards spot Tarr. He uses a
gas bomb on them. Shang-Chi naturally assumes that’s the signal and
crosses the causeway, beneath which lies a pit full of black panthers.
Velcro’s two bodyguards barely have time to realize they’re in a fight
before Shang-Chi throws them off the causeway.
Shang-Chi confronts Razor-Fist
Velcro
reaches the warehouse and captures Reston. Smith and Petrie, in the
seaplane offshore, wait for the signal to pick up their agents.
Shang-Chi kicks open the front door and meets Razor-Fist ….
Notes
- For the first time, neither Fu Manchu nor his minions appear in a Master of Kung Fu story.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- gunmen
- Gerald Mills (Death)
- “Miss Devon”/Caxon (Death)
- Captain Barkan (Death)
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Remo and romolo were the sons of the she-wolf, Romeo and Juliet were the sons of guilt, but the SONS OF THE TIGER are real losers because they are moreover colored
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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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