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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 OTTIME, L’ALBO NON E’ DI RESA

LEGENDA STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE

condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)

condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5

condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7

condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5

condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4

per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto

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.

Featured Characters:

• Shang-Chi

Supporting Characters:

• Sir Denis Nayland Smith
• Black Jack Tarr
• Clive Reston
• Doctor Petrie (seen only)

Villains:

• various enemy agents

Other Characters:

• captain

Locations:

• France
  • Marseilles

Vehicles:

• Ile de France, an ocean liner

Synopsis

In a Marseilles park, Black Jack Tarr and Clive Reston watch Shang-Chi meditate. Sir Denis Nayland Smith returns from the “local office” with a new mission: he, Tarr, and Shang-Chi will return to London via the Ile de France, an ocean liner, while Reston and Doctor Petrie will fly back. Shang-Chi thinks, “I assumed we would return to New York. In my concentration, then, I have … missed something.” On their way to the docks, Smith explains that one of their agents has some documents that must reach London. They have passed through several hands, so he has no idea who has them now. He does know that several foreign powers want the documents.

At the dock, Shang-Chi helps a blind woman carry her luggage aboard. Smith checks in with the captain, who doesn’t like the “special considerations” he has to extend to their party and having to bump “less worthy” passengers. At dinner that evening, Shang-Chi sees the blind woman and mentions that she seemed interested in their conversation with the captain. Smith suggests inviting her to their table. She introduces herself as Therese Beswick. Shang-Chi, listening to her guarded conversation with Smith, thinks, “In cryptic phrases, each seems to toy with the other.”

A yell comes from the deck. Shang-Chi stops three men from throwing another overboard. To rescue the victim, though, he has to let the others escape. The captain wants to arrest Shang-Chi, Smith, and Tarr for creating a disturbance. The victim says that Shang-Chi saved him and that his attackers wanted some documents. Back inside, they find Beswick missing. A waiter says that hooded goons took her.

Next morning, Beswick is still missing. A storm rises. While looking for Beswick, Shang-Chi is attacked by crew members. He, Smith, and Tarr find the captain dead, stabbed repeatedly by a dagger. The lone conscious “crew” member says that the real crew is “held captive … ten kilometers outside Marseilles.” Shang-Chi goes to look for Beswick, while the storm rises.

At the earlier victim’s cabin, Shang-Chi finds four hooded goons trying to get the documents. He defeats three of them. The fourth escapes to the deck. Blocking her dagger attack, he pulls off her hood and finds Beswick. She attacks again. He ducks. She goes over the rail. He throws a life ring to her.

Everyone gathers around Smith on deck. He explains that the original victim is not the agent; that he is the agent; that he hid the documents in the life ring, so they are now illegible; that they were meaningless and served only as bait in a trap. Shang-Chi walks away and thinks, “In my concentration, then, I have … missed something. The storm continues.”

Featured Characters:

• Shang-Chi

Supporting Characters:

• Jack Tarr
• Clive Reston
• Sir Denis Nayland Smith
• Leiko Wu (First appearance)

Villains:

• Mordillo/Simon Bretnor (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• enemy agents

Locations:

• London
• Mordillo’s island, East China Sea

Synopsis 

Shang-Chi, Denis Nayland Smith, and Black Tarr reach London’s Victoria Station after their sea voyage. Clive Reston has a car there to pick them up. A robot walks toward Reston, begins saying, “Mis-ter-Res-ton-I-pre-sume,” and fires bullets from gun barrels set in its eye sockets. Shang-Chi kicks it and Smith shoots it, both without effect. Shang-Chi, guessing that its armor is not proof against its own bullets, twists its head over so that it shoots itself. Tarr comments that it looks like a Mordillo creation, except that Mordillo is dead. He goes on to tell Shang-Chi that Mordillo was a world-class assassin and a world-class loon; he preferred to use offbeat machines.

            first appearance of Leiko Wu

Reston takes Shang-Chi to his new place, an apartment on King’s Row. They find Leiko Wu using his bathtub. Reston strongly hints that he and Leiko were lovers; she hints just as strongly that the relationship is over. Smith calls and asks them to come to Scotland Yard. Once there, they learn that the bullets fired at Reston all have the same inscription on the base: “MY FAIR LADY.” That ties Reston to agent Norris Putnam, recently killed by bullets similarly inscribed with “DED CBCD ABC BCD.” Putnam’s contact, Simon Bretnor, is now missing. When Leiko hears this, she slips out of the meeting. Putnam’s last assignment was to protect the report from Project: Ultra-Violet, a scheme to open holes in the ozone layer at specific locations; unfiltered sunlight could kill anyone outdoors at such a location. The cryptographic team reports that, when assigned to musical notes, these letters are the refrain of “London Bridge Is Falling Down”—and Putnam was shot on Tower Bridge.

Shang-Chi and Tarr go to Tower Bridge, where Putnam may have left a clue so important that the enemy is willing to blow up the bridge to keep it hidden. They find a construction van parked on the bridge. The goons inside the van attack. After Shang-Chi and Tarr defeat them, Shang-Chi finds a bomb attached to a girder. He throws it into the Thames, where it explodes.

Reston and Smith arrive, carrying a note Reston found at Leiko’s place: “If you love me at all, meet me at the usual place~~Simon.” Smith says that the Project: Ultra-Violet research was shredded, but there is a copy hypnotically placed in Leiko’s mind, along with a command to forget that she had it. Only Putnam had the code word to unlock the hypnosis. Between two bricks, they find Putnam’s clue: a note that says, “Bretnor is Mordillo,” along with the latitude and longitude of his base in the East China Sea.

At that moment, Bretnor/Mordillo and his captive, Leiko, are landing on his small island in the East China Sea ….

Notes

This is the beginning  of the three-part “Mordillo” story-arc.
Leiko Wu becomes a regular supporting cast member beginning with this issue.

Featured Characters:

• Sons of the Tiger

• Bob Diamond

Supporting Characters:

• Lotus Shinchuko

Items:

• Amulets of Power

Synopsis

Continued from last issue…

An unlimited love and their amulets of power are the magic strength taking hearts and muscles of Bob and his chinese girlfriend Lotus.
Meanwhile, Sweet Little Ching is looking for Mino, a latin lover from Broccolino.