Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #4: The Newton edition


Newton Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #4 is cover-dated August 1976:


The cover is from Marvel Comics' The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #8:


The comics contents are as follows:

A Different Lesson in Blood Unchanged!, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #11, April 1975
Gladiators in the Crypt of Tomorrow, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #11, April 1975
Blood of the Golden Dragon, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #12, May 1975
The Crack of the Whip, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #12, May 1975

Included is the non-comics feature The Man with the Golden Gun Shoots Blanks, originally published in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #12, May 1975

Slotting in between The Man with the Golden Gun Shoots Blanks and The Crack of the Whip is this single-page pin-up page of The Silver Surfer:


This image is from the splash page of The Origin of the Silver Surfer! previously published by  Newton Comics in The Silver Surfer #1:


This issue includes the following in-house advertisements:



Dracula #NN [15] 

These ads promote issues published in the August 1976 relaunch of Newton Comics. The Dracula cover is a pre-production image, likely intended for Dracula #14, and eventually turned up on the final Dracula issue much later. As per the other issues in this period, The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #4 includes the second version of the Captain America bulletin:


This issue also has the t-shirt offer and the Camera Contest as per the other August 1976 issues. My copy does not include a Free King Size Super-Hero Poster.

I have guesstimated the publication date as 28 August 1976.

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