In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1974 to see the historic debut of Iron Fist. Generally speaking, a truism in comic book history has been that whenever there is a fad in popular culture, comic books will jump on it…JUST a little bit late. For instance, Marvel debuted its disco character, Dazzler, in late 1979, just a couple of months before Lipps Inc.’s “Funkytown” came out, generally accepted as the last true Disco hit (granted, there were a lot of extenuating circumstances that delayed Dazzler’s debut, but still).As noted, while Englehart and Starlin were big Kung Fu fans, Roy Thomas hadn’t gotten into the craze. However, in March 1973, the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film, King Boxer, was released in the United States under the name Five Fingers of Death. This was the film that REALLY kicked the Kung Fu craze in the United States into high gear, as while the Kung Fu TV show was popular, we hadn’t even had a Bruce Lee Kung Fu film released in the United States at this point (which is tragic, of course, as it meant that Lee had already passed away before he became a film star in the United States with the release of his previously filmed Hong Kong Kung Fu movies)
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1974 to see the historic debut of Iron Fist.
Generally speaking, a truism in comic book history has been that whenever there is a fad in popular culture, comic books will jump on it…JUST a little bit late. For instance, Marvel debuted its disco character, Dazzler, in late 1979, just a couple of months before Lipps Inc.’s “Funkytown” came out, generally accepted as the last true Disco hit (granted, there were a lot of extenuating circumstances that delayed Dazzler’s debut, but still).
As noted, while Englehart and Starlin were big Kung Fu fans, Roy Thomas hadn’t gotten into the craze. However, in March 1973, the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film, King Boxer, was released in the United States under the name Five Fingers of Death. This was the film that REALLY kicked the Kung Fu craze in the United States into high gear, as while the Kung Fu TV show was popular, we hadn’t even had a Bruce Lee Kung Fu film released in the United States at this point (which is tragic, of course, as it meant that Lee had already passed away before he became a film star in the United States with the release of his previously filmed Hong Kong Kung Fu movies)
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