Issue(s): Power Man & Iron Fist #124
Cover Date: Jul 86
Title: "Crossfire"
Credits:
Christopher Priest - Script
Christopher Priest & M.D. Bright - Plot
M.D. Bright - Penciler
Jerry Acerno - Inker
Don Daley - Assistant Editor
Bob Harras - Editor

Review/plot:
Last issue was a Power Man solo story, and this issue is Iron Fist's turn, although the event is instigated by Luke. Iron Fist has been acting distant, with an archaic dialect, since returning from K'un-Lun, and Cage bursts into the office of Gordy of SMILE to arrange something to draw him out of it. Gordy, who says he's in the middle of dealing with a rogue sect of the Yellow Claw's old organization, apparently sees an opportunity here.

Maxine Walters shows Iron Fist a letter inviting him to the house of a Chinese "master". Fist finds that the master's grounds are under attack by yellow-robed Yellow Claw warriors.

Fist winds up fighting both the warriors and the master's guards...

...but eventually makes it to the master, who proves some words of wisdom that help Fist let go of whatever was tormenting him.

However, we find out in the end that the "master" was really Gordy.

Gordy used Iron Fist's attack to clear out the renegade Claw group.

On the last page, Jonathan Lumus, the brother of the CCI agent that got killed and also exposed Iron Fist to the radiation that kicked off his current problems, escapes from a jail in France.

This issue becomes somewhat meaningless and even a little counterproductive due to the H'ylthri retcon, but it's a decent martial arts issue that harkens back to Fist's solo days and lets M.D. Bright have a little fun.

Quality Rating: B-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Cage says that Gordy got him and Iron Fist into "this mess" back in Power Man & Iron Fist #114, meaning forcing them to join CCI which resulted in Iron Fist getting the radiation poisoning that made him have to go back to K'un-Lun.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A