A Sense of Doubt blog post #2327 - Shang Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings trailer

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2327 - Shang Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings trailer

Essentially, I am a child of the 1970s. 

Granted, I was born in the 1960s, in fact EARLY in the 1960s, so I spent eight years in the 1960s. But several of those years were as an infant, a toddler, and a very young child. I didn't even watch Star Trek when it was originally broadcast. It was past my bed time. I watched re-runs of Star Trek in the 1970s.

The 1970s and 1980s were really my decades. These were the decades when I "came of age," and so the popular culture from those decades are the ones that were formative for me.

As such, I LOVE the martial arts comics and monster comics that were popular in the 1970s. Because Marvel had a tradition of monster comics dating back to the 1950s, and given that some of its early publications, such as Tales to Astonish, Amazing Fantasy, and Journey Into Mystery were titles that featured stories of monsters and aliens BEFORE they featured Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant Man and the Wasp, Iron Man, and Namor, then it made sense for Marvel to re-brand its commitment to monsters in the 1970s with Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, Frankenstein Monster, The living Mummy, Crypt of Shadows, and arguably even Howard the Duck. I loved those 1970s monster comics  A LOT.

So, unlike monster comics, Marvel had little to no history in comics about martial arts or showing Asians as anything other than "yellow devils," such as Fu Manchu and the Claw. And so, spurred on by the popularity of Bruce Lee and of the TV shows that followed, such as Kung Fu, Marvel created two main properties and a few minor properties related to the martial arts: Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu and The Iron Fist. Related to White Tiger, Daughters of the Dragon, and one of Marvel's 1970s black and white magazine formats (to compete with Harvey?) in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.

It is Shang Chi about whom I am writing today.

I was a HUGE fan of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu.

I was a huge fan of the Kung Fu TV show, and later I was a fan of Bruce Lee. The only reason I wasn't in the 1970s was access. I did not see Enter the Dragon until the 1980s.

In fact, (also thank you Wikipedia), Marvel had wanted to gain rights to the Kung Fu TV show adaptation in comics but DC Comics won that contract, and so Marvel created its own martial arts comic book.

Looking at the Shang Chi Wiki page, I learned something. I believed that Fu Manchu had been eliminated from Shang's origin because the depiction of the character was racist. According to the Wiki page, it was actually because Marvel lost the rights to Fu Manchu.

And now, Shang Chi will be featured in a Marvel movie this year! With the addition of this film, Marvel will further emphasize a commitment to diversity along with Black Panther, which is the first nearly all-black created story and film; Black Widow, only the second major Marvel film with a female lead character and third overall; and now Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first major superhero film starring an Asian superhero.

One criticism Marvel has often received is that as much as many of us LOVE The Iron Fist, it is the story of a very Aryan looking white man who has some dubious heritage with a hidden city in the Himalayas and the power of the Great Dragon rather than an Asian character.

Shang Chi is an Asian, Chinese actually, and is not only a Master of various martial arts, including Kung Fu, but later in the run of the series works with British Intelligence as a James Bond analogue.

Created by two of my favorite creators in 1973 -- Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin -- Shang Chi debuted in Special Marvel Edition #15 in 1973, and soon, the title's name was changed to The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu with issue #17. Other 1970s greats like writer Doug Moench worked on the book and artist Paul Gulacy cut his teeth on the comic and soared to prominence as one of the best artists in the industry.

The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu  ran until issue #125 in 1983.

Much deserving of a longer post as I did with the Phantom Stranger, again with the Phantom Stranger, among other characters and titles, and I have planeed to do with Mystery in Space, I feel a big post featuring Shang Chi and The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu  in the future of the blog. But not today.

Today, just the film trailer and a few The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu  covers.

Thanks for tuning in, especially if you are as excited about this upcoming Shang Chi movie as I am!!

Worth noting: The current Shang-Chi comic, brought back after a long hiatus in time for the movie, is actually written by a Chinese-American writer! 

Finally.

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Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Official Trailer

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Jun 24, 2021

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all from - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/master-of-kung-fu/4050-2697/?sortBy=asc

my first Shang Chi comic!

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