The Deadliest Heroes of Kung Fu Vol. 1, No. 1
The Deadliest Heroes of Kung Fu Vol. 1, No. 1
Curtis Magazines | 1975 | English | 81 pages | PDF | 54.2 MB
Curtis Magazines | 1975 | English | 81 pages | PDF | 54.2 MB
As a historical footnote, Curtis Magazines published one issue of an offshoot magazine entitled The Deadliest Heroes of Kung Fu. The single issue mimicked The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu* magazine's format in almost every way except it did not contain any comic book elements, but instead instructional features by Frank McLaughlin.
The Deadliest Heroes of Kung Fu also ran without a single advertisement in its pages, which was rare for such a magazine. Editor John Warner explained in the issue's editorial that the extended reprint — a discussion of the film Enter the Dragon originally published in the parent magazine and serialized in three parts there — allowed him to go without ads. Warner's editorial also posited that The Deadliest Heroes of Kung Fu was a trial balloon for an all-articles companion to Deadly Hands, but it is generally believed that a page-count cutback across Marvel's black-and-white magazine line came entirely out of the article section for Hands, leading to an inventory backlog, which this one-shot cleared.
* Deadly Hands of Kung Fu is a martial arts comic book magazine published by Curtis Magazines.