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New Collecting Guide: Marvel’s Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu

September 6, 2016 by krisis

shang-chi-3596575-avengers_world_3_alessio_variantFrequently, my comic guides begin as one of two questions – either, “Where has this character appeared?” or “Can you buy collections of this character?”

That’s what makes my Shang Chi collecting guide and reading order a bit of an outlier. You see, I started working on it after picking up his first omnibus earlier this summer and loving the first few issues. There is a total of six scheduled volumes to cover both his long-running Master of Kung Fu (MoKF) series and its magazine companion, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.

(If you don’t already know who Shang Chi is, I cover his history at length in the intro the guide).

With that beautiful volume one omnibus in my hands, I began sketching Shang Chi’s guide to see how those two series intertwined, and to understand how much Shang-Chi of the 80s and 90s would remain uncollected after the Omnibus line was completed.

I knew Shang Chi wasn’t used too widely after his series since I didn’t really remember him from my active collecting in year back in the day, but I was surprised to see just how sparse his appearances really were. Shang Chi appeared only in 50 issues between the end of MoKF in 1983 and his joining Heroes For Hire in 2006. And, not all of those appearances are significant!

While that’s kind of crummy for having reading material of a character you love, it’s a good thing when it comes to collected editions. Even if the Omnibuses stop right at the end of Master of Kung Fu and don’t touch things like his MCP run, by the time they’re all released at the end of 2017 we’ll have gone from less than 25% of all Shang-Chi featured appearances collected to over 85%!

Year Series Total
Collected
  213
182
1971 in Special Marvel Edition 2 2
1974 Master of Kung Fu 114 114
1974 in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 21 21
1988 in Marvel Comics Presents 11 0
1991 Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black 1 0
1997 in Journey Into Mystery 3 0
2000 Marvel Knights 15 0
2002 Shang-Chi: Master Of Kung Fu MAX 6 6
2006 in Heroes For Hire Vol. 2 15 15
2009 Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu 1 0
2010 in Secret Avengers 6 6
2011 Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 3 3
2014 in Avengers World 7 7
2014 Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 4 4
2015 Master of Kung Fu 4 4

Some fans think Marvel might stretch out the final MoKF omnibus volume to cover more than just MoKF to include the Marvel Comics Presents and Journey Into Mystery solo material. If they did, we’d be down to mostly just  appearance in Marvel Knights #1-15 being uncollected (which is a gap for all the street level folks – Marvel really needs to reprint that!).

I’ll continue to track that news as it breaks in the Shang Chi guide – so far only 4 of the 6 planned volumes have been announced.

I’ve totally loved what I’ve read of the first Kung Fu Omnibus so far – I’m really looking forward to the full six book set (even if my wallet isn’t looking forward to it at all).

Related posts:

  1. Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibuses – What’s been printed and what’s gone missing?
  2. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order
  3. The 5th Annual Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus Secret Ballot, presented by Tigereyes
  4. Crushing Comics – Guide to Collecting DC Comic Books
  5. The Definitive Iron Fist Collecting Guide and Reading Order
  6. Master of Kung Fu gets collected (or: After 100 years, Fu Manchu is still a villain)
  7. New Collecting Guide: Ultimate Marvel Comics

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