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2	''Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'' is a magazine published by Magazine Management, the parent company of Creator/MarvelComics.
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4	Published to capitalise on the US kung fu craze, each issue mixes text articles about martial arts with black and white comic stories starring some of Marvel's martial arts heroes.
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6	ComicBook/ShangChi is effectively the lead story, but other heroes such as ComicBook/IronFist and the Sons of the Tiger were also recurring features.
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8	The Shang-Chi stories were initially written by Steve Englehart, then later by Creator/DougMoench, the same authors as Shang-Chi's Marvel comic, ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu'', and fit into the same continuity. However, they tend to be standalone stories with few recurring characters, so most of the supporting cast from ''Master of Kung Fu'' don't appear.
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10	The first issue was published on February 5, 1974.
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13	!!Tropes appearing in the ''Deadly Hands Of Kung-Fu'' Shang-Chi stories:
14	* ArrogantKungFuGuy: San Francisco martial artist Johnny Chen insists on fighting Shang-Chi, just to prove who's better.
15	* BadBoss: Fu Manchu is definitely in this category, perhaps more so than his other Marvel appearances.
16	** He has one of his trainee concubines [[SurgicalImpersonation surgically modified]] to impersonate a dead woman Shang-Chi had previously met, sends her out to entrap Shang-Chi and the woman's surviving friends, then has the Si-Fan kill her along with the others.
17	* BrainTransplant: Judging by the scars and stitches, this was the fate of Si-Fan assassin Chow Loo. He tries to lie to Fu Manchu about his failure against Shang-Chi - when he next appears he’s somehow in the body of a monstrous ape.
18	* MurderByMistake: One gang member accidentally knifes his own girlfriend while trying to kill Shang-Chi.
19	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Quite a few of the American toughs and gangsters that Shang-Chi clashes with are overtly racist, taunting him with racial slurs.

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