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Master of Kung Fu #47
Issue(s): Master of Kung Fu #47
Cover Date: Dec 76
Title: "Leiko Wu: The phantom sand"
Credits:
Doug Moench - Writer
Paul Gulacy - Penciler
Pablo Marcos - Inker
Review/plot:
Leiko and Shang-Chi, who were disguised as agents of Fah Lo Suee, are discovered this issue and forced to face her troops in the Arctic.
They are joined by MI-6 agents Reston and Larner. However, Suee's troops are wiped out by Fu Manchu's, and Shang-Chi makes an alliance with her since they are all after Fu Manchu. Of course, this is exactly what she offered Shang-Chi 2 issues ago.
Dr. Petrie is being deprogrammed by MI-6. Actually, it looks to me like they're just brainwashing him into being a 'good' guy.
It turns out that Ducharme is still loyal to Fu Manchu after all...
...and she provides him with info from inside MI-6. Being Fu Manchu, he already seems to know everything she tells him.
Fu Manchu's plan is to resurrect his dead ancestor (he whose skull came out of the oyster pearl last issue), Shaka Kharn (not to be confused with Chaka Kahn over in Iron Fist)(or any other Chaka or Shaka Kahns you may know).
Quality Rating: B
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Pushing this back in publication time a bit to make room for Shang-Chi's appearance in Marvel Two-In-One #29.
References: N/A
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
Archie Goodwin takes over as EIC about this time and his comics career was very storied. He started out as a writer for Redbook, then became Warren's first editor from 1964-66, spent the next 7 years writing comic strips and for Marvel, became a DC editor from 1973-5, went back to edit for Warren again, then became Marvel EIC until 1978.
So how did he find time to work for Nero Wolfe?
The use of "Fleurette" here is weird. That was the name of Dr. Petrie's daughter(and Moench definitely knew that), who otherwise never appeared in this series.
You might want to correct that reference to "Shaka Khan" to "Shaka KhaRn". Otherwise, you'll also need to add that we shouldn't confuse this character with the singer Chaka Khan!
Chaka, Chaka, Chaka
Chaka Khan
Let me rock you
Let me rock you
Chaka Khan
Let me rock you
That's all I wanna do
Chaka Khan
The character of Ward Sarsfield is a homage to Arthur Sarsfield Ward, which was the real name of "Sax Rohmer".
Actually, the Iron Fist villain was just "Chaka" with no Kahn or Khan or Kharn. I think the similarity to Shaka Kharn's name, plus the similarity to Chaka Khan's stage name, plus the fact that Iron Fist had another villain called Master Khan has created a lot of confusion. I just checked the old Iron Fist issues, though, and it's Chaka.
Thanks, matthew. You're right. The MCP and the Appendix both list the character as Chaka Khan, but i just went through his appearances and can only find him called just Chaka.
(Just to avoid confusion for everyone, this issue doesn't feature Chaka; matthew is just responding to the comments above.)
Legend has it that Shaka Kharn had a sycophantic man-servant named Rufus. In down times, Rufus would always "tell him somethin' good" :-)
