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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5022
EAN: 9780785115465
ISBN: 0785115463
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 584
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Sales Rank: 416196
Studio: Marvel Comics



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Product Description:
Collects Marvel Premiere #15-25, Iron Fist #1-15, Marvel Team-Up #63-64, and Power Man & Iron Fist #48-50.

Amazon.com Review:
Essential Iron Fist is another good use of Marvel's budget-priced Essentials series. Iron Fist was a second-tier character intended to capitalize on the '70s kung-fu craze who ended up occupying a middle ground between conventional super-heroes and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, Iron Fist was raised as a martial-arts master in the fabled city of K'un-Lun, but gave up an immortal life in that paradise in order to return to the United States in pursuit of revenge. Essential Iron Fist Vol. 1 collects his opening run in Marvel Premiere 15-25 followed by his own book, Iron Fist 1-15. The book floundered a bit once the initial story arc was over, but was distinguished by the team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne, who were also working on their historic run on the X-Men (there's some character overlap). But even so, Iron Fist only lasted 15 issues until some of the loose ends had to be tied up in two issues of Marvel Team-Up featuring Spider-Man. The volume concludes with Power Man 48-50, in which Iron Fist meets his eventual partner Luke Cage, the former Hero for Hire. --David Horiuchi



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Iron Fist is one of Marvel's most under rated characters
This is how it all began. The 1970's was the height of the Kung-Fu crazy. Bruce Lee passed away and spawned dozens of wanna be imposters. Shang-Chi was the Master of Kung-Fu but Marvel wanted a hybrid Kung-fu master/super hero and Iron Fist was created to fit the bill.

Recently, Iron Fist has made a comeback in the tremendous Immortal Iron Fist series so it's only proper that a Marvel Essential chronicling his early appearances comes out.

Not only that but this book features ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A nearly flawless comic book series...
...of course it helps that by the time Iron Fist finally got his own series, it only lasted 15 issues. But those 15 issues are great. Once Chris Claremont and John Byrne got a hold of this character, the book soared. Great art, great stories, great characters -- and the first interracial love story in comics history!


While many of the Marvel Essential series are culled from second-rate 70's books, this one is a classic. It's not about Kung Fu or the martial arts -- it's about great ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Graphic SF Reader
Lost Horizon meets Kung Fu by way of the Marvel Universe. Iron Fist is a blast. Definitely one of the better Essentials. This is top of the line superhero and martial arts and other craziness. There is also corporate conspiracy and intrigue, and dodgy looking ballet booties on his costume, according to some writers! A definite bargain.





Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - More Seventies Marvel Magic
This is why the Essentials series is handy-- it takes someone with a excellent comics collection and a good cross-referencing system to put all these books together in one place.

Iron Fist was part of the Marvel 70's move to try anything non-superheroic. A bit more super-heroish than Shang-Chi, Iron Fits had trouble finding its feet as a feature. Sometimes a bit derivative (with an origin tale that echoed both Ka-Zar and Scott Summers) and sometimes bizarre (okay, so the magic city is guarded by...um...homicidal ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Top-notch '70s comics
The 1960s and `70s were a simpler time in comic book writing and art, but simpler but does not mean dumber, merely less complicated (the comics of today tend to be more complex which has its own pluses and minuses). Marvel has been reprinting many of the comics from this period in their "Essentials" series. Having read quite a few of these Essentials volumes over the past couple of years, I can confidently say that not all are equally good; some, in fact, are pretty poor. Happily, the Essential Iron Fist is one of the best ... Read More


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