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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published September 1979
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roger Stern; Jim Salicrup (Assistant Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details

Characters Shang Chi
Genre martial arts
Pencils Mike Zeck (signed)
Inks Gene Day (signed)

17 page Master of Kung Fu story "The Pride of Leopards"

Characters Shang-Chi; Clive Reston; Black Jack Tarr; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Leiko Wu; Melissa Greville; Fu Manchu; Fah Lo Suee (flashback); Zaran (flashback); Lyman Leeks (Death?); Maru (Introduction)
Synopsis Fu Manchu turns out not to be dead after all. Shang-Chi and his pals fight Fu's leopard cult assassins.
Genre martial arts
Script Doug Moench
Pencils Mike Zeck
Inks Gene Day
Colors Nelson Yomtov
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes This story begins to sow the seeds for the 7 issue opus.

1 page letters page "Missives to the Master!"

Script Doug Moench
Letters typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Bob Rodi, Jeremy L. Lichtenstein and Kent G. Orlando. Placed between pages 11 and 12 of sequence 1.