Descrizione
SHANG – CHI MAESTRO DEL KUNG – FU
PRIMA SERIE (formato gigante )
editoriale Corno, 1976
la memorabile collana corno che ha
fatto conoscere all’ ottuso e rozzo pubblico italiano la commovente ed incazzatissima saga nippo-americana, ispirata alle
capriole marziali di Bruce Lee, alle prodezze sushi di David Carradine,
ai capitomboli ninja di Itto Ogami, alle imprecazioni zen di David Sylvian e alla virilità bonsai di Carl
Douglas
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
a disposizione moltissimi numeri delle altre serie Corno , Star e Marvel, sono gradite le mancoliste.
I
TEMPI IN CUI VIVIAMO SONO SEMPRE PIU’ DURI, E ANCHE SOPRAVVIVERE SU
EBAY STA DIVENTANDO OGNI GIORNO PIU’ DIFFICILE. SE VOLETE CONTINUARE A
DELIZIARVI O INFURIARVI LEGGENDO E USUFRUENDO DELLE NOSTRE ATIPICHE ED
INCONVENZIONALI INSERZIONI, VISTO CHE NON COMPRATE MAI NULLA, AIUTATECI
ALMENO CON IL VOSTRO APPOGGIO E IL VOSTRO SOSTEGNO, PER UNA VOLTA
TANGIBILE E COMMENSURABILE. ACCETTIAMO OGNI FORMA DI CONTRIBUTO E
SOVVENZIONE, AL LIMITE ANCHE DANARO, MA VANNO BENE PURE PROSCIUTTI,
FORMAGGI, SIGARETTE, BUONI PASTO, BIGLIETTI DEL TRAM, LIQUORI ,
POLLAME E ORTAGGI.
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“The Devil Doctor’s Triumph” / TRAPPOLA MORTALE !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Peko
- Doctor Chen
- Sandy Chen
Locations:
- New York
- Peking (Beijing)
- Chinese countryside
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Eyes / Capitolo primo – GLI OCCHI
On a sidewalk outside a martial arts studio, a drunk accosts Shang-Chi
while he waits for Sir Denis Nayland Smith to arrive. The man swings,
misses, and crashes through a plate glass window. The owner of the
studio, a woman named Sandy, invites Shang-Chi inside. She invites him
to dinner, then to a walk in the park. The “drunk” reports to Fu Manchu
that Shang-Chi missed his appointment with Smith.
a deadly first date
Sandy
and Shang-Chi sit on a park bench. They stare into each other’s eyes.
They kiss. Shang-Chi hears a stealthy motion in the bushes, just before a
group of Si-Fan assassins appears. Not only does Sandy strike first,
she holds her own in the ensuing battle. Smith appears in a horse-drawn
carriage, driven by Black Jack Tarr, and picks them up. Smith tells
Shang-Chi that Doctor Ling (called “Chen” later), a Chinese scientist,
will defect soon and needs protection. Sandy reluctantly leaves.
Chapter 2: Air / Capitolo secondo – ARIA
flying the unfriendly skies
Smith
continues to give instructions to Shang-Chi right up to the door of the
plane. Smith will take another route, but he has placed agents on the
plane for backup. Once aboard, Shang-Chi realizes that the plan has gone
awry when the stewardess tries to garrote him. One by one, the other
passengers shed their innocent appearances and attack. Shang-Chi knocks
out the pilots and finds the real crew tied up in a closet, along with
his contact. The plane lands in Peking. The contact gets Shang-Chi past
customs and gives him a pair of nunchaku.
Chapter 3: Deceit / Capitolo terzo – L’ INGANNO !
Shang-Chi makes his way through the streets of Peking to meet
another contact. He hears footsteps following him. Assassins gather in
his wake until there are dozens. He reaches a courtyard and cannot go
any further. He draws the nunchaku, angry that he must use a weapon, but
here he has no choice. “Madness rules his spirit! He would oppose us
all!!” says one of the assassins before they close in.
mad Shang-Chi
Rather
than scattering his concentration, Shang-Chi’s anger only makes him
more dangerous. Some of the assassins flee rather than face him. The
others fall.
Shang-Chi reaches the rendezvous point. A robed figure beckons him to
a waiting car. The figure pulls back its hood to reveal … Sandy! The
car takes them to Chen’s home in the countryside. Sandy turns out to be
the daughter of Doctor Chen, whom she has not seen in ten years.
While Sandy prepares tea, Chen tells Shang-Chi that he must pass
on the secret of his research. He whispers it before Sandy returns.
Next morning Sandy and an agent leave to make the final
arrangements for Chen’s defection. The “agent” goes to Fu Manchu’s
fortress and carries an unconscious Sandy inside.
Shang-Chi patrols outside Chen’s house. He notices a door left
open and finds Chen has stabbed himself. Fu has arrived too late to
wrest the secret from Chen, but he can still get it from his son.
Someone knocks out Shang-Chi.
He awakens in the fortress with truth serum in his bloodstream.
Fu wants the secret. Shang-Chi only says, “Where … is … the …
girl?” Fu pulls a lever, and Shang-Chi falls through a trap door.
Chapter 4: Dementia / Capitolo quarto – LA FOLLIA
Shang-Chi finds himself in the top half of an hourglass, and the
bottom half has metal spikes set in a pool of acid! Fu Manchu demands
the secret, but time runs out. Shang-Chi falls headfirst … and grabs
two spikes. He flips onto a normal floor. Taking the only exit, he
enters a maze.
the maze of madness
The
truth serum (or, more likely, something Fu added to it) causes
Shang-Chi to hallucinate. At every corner in the maze, the voice of Fu
Manchu mocks him, threatens him, demanding the secret. Around every bend
lurks a Si-Fan assassin—or it might be a skeleton—or it might be a
shadow. When he can go no further, he meets Sandy—or it might be Death.
Whatever they are, they fall before his fury. So does the stone wall
that blocks his path.
Shang-Chi steps into the original room. He has proven that Fu cannot
force the secret from him, so there is no reason to keep it. But in
fact, there is no secret. Chen was trying to develop a synthetic
nutrient and abolish hunger. He failed, and so he killed himself. Fu
becomes angry. When Shang-Chi asks again about Sandy, Fu says, “You
fool!! You killed her yourself!”
A commotion erupts upstairs. Smith, Tarr, and several agents
erupt into the room, guns blazing. One of the assassins tries to kill
Shang-Chi with a large sword but manages only a deep cut in his side
before getting shot. Fu Manchu escapes in the confusion. Smith tells
Shang-Chi that they found Sandy’s body in the maze.
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“Gladiators in the Crypt of Tomorrow” / GLADIATORI DEL FUTURO (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
The last survivor explains some of his race’s past. He then awakens the hundreds
or thousands of dead and mummified Silent Ones to claim the forms
of the Sons of the Tiger. The Sons tap into the power of their
amulets and create an army of warriors, embodiments of the
Tiger’s Power. The warriors attacks on his mummified ancestors
causing the last survivor to weaken and stagger back, and Lin Sun
knocked him back through his own time portal. This destroys him,
and the mummified Silent Ones crumble to dust.
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