![]() The character was intended less as a push for greater diversity and more as a consolation prize: Creators Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin had hoped to make a comic book version of the television series Kung Fu when that failed due to rights issues, Shang-Chi was created to - in the words of Englehart in the book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - “do the Eastern mystical philosophy.” His name was chosen, apparently, by “throwing the I Ching and mixing and matching hexagrams.” 15, a series that would be retitled The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu two issues later (and, later still, retitled simply Master of Kung Fu). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shang-Chi debuted in 1973’s Special Marvel Edition No. ![]()
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