Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1: The Newton edition


Newton Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 is cover-dated December 1975:


The cover is from Marvel Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #6:


The story contents are as follows:

The Way of the Jackal!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #6, November 1974
Lesson of the Locust!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #6, November 1974
The Past-Assassins!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #7, December 1974
Tigers In a Mind-Cage!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #7, December 1974

This issue includes the following non-comics features:

A Bruce Lee Triple Feature or Good-bye, Saucer-Men; Hello the Hong Kong Flash, Doo Wah!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #6, November 1974
The Basic Technique of Blocking, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #7, December 1974

The poster in this issue is The Avengers:


This poster is from the cover of The Avengers #6, and had also recently been a poster in Newton's The Avengers #10.

This issue contains the following in-house advertisements:



Dracula #10 

The Fantastic Four #12

The December 1975 Captain America Bulletin is on the inner front cover:


Two letters pages, a t-shirt offer and a contest with the expiry date 31 January 1976 round out the issue.

According to the Marvel Mailbag this issue was scheduled for publication 20 December 1975:


The following week it was advertised in the Sunday Observer alongside Monsters Unleashed! #1:



1 comment:

Robert Thomas said...

Really nice to see the Sunday Observer adverts. Your photo research and catalog of the newspaper is thorough and excellent and adds so much more context of the times!