Tuesday, November 12, 2019

The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #3: The Newton edition


Newton Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #3 is cover-dated March 1976:


The cover is from Marvel Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #9:


The comics contents are as follows

Slaughter In Central Park!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #9, February 1975
They Who Dwell Within, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #10, March 1975 
Slay Now, Die Later [Part 1], originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #10, March 1975
The Shaping of Vengeance [Part 2] (aka The Awesome Origin of Iron Fist!), originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #10, March 1975 
Iron and Steel! [Part 3], originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #10, March 1975

This issue includes the non-comics feature The Way of the Weapons, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #14, July 1975 

The original issues of Deadly Hands of Kung Fu often included frontispieces by feature artists, flaunting their stuff on characters in striking poses. Two such pieces are included in this issue as single-page filler/pinups. The first of these is by Ron Wilson:


This Shang-Chi illustration originally appeared in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #10.

The second is a Bruce Lee illustration by Howard Chaykin, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #14:  


This issue contains the following in-house advertisements:



Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner #1 

The X-Men #4 

Newton Team-Up #3


A two-page Marvel Mailbag spread, a Captain America iron-on transfer and a contest with the outdated expiry date 31 January 1976 round out this issue. Note the contest is on the inner front cover, not page 83 as per the cover advice.

Thanks to Mark Cannon for helping out with some scans.

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