Robert Diamond

Born into the martial-arts craze that swept Bronze Age comics, Robert Diamond made his entrance in 1974's Kung Fu Special #1, brought to life by writer Doug Moench and artist Mike Vosburg at Marvel. His brief but memorable run through the mid-seventies placed him in genuinely electric company — sharing pages with Shang-Chi, Abe Brown, Lin Sun, and the shadowy Zheng Zu across titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Special Collector's Edition Featuring Savage Fists of Kung Fu, the prestige anthologies that defined Marvel's kung fu moment. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Diamond is a rare find — a character whose scarcity makes him a genuine curiosity for collectors who love digging into the wilder, more experimental corners of the Bronze Age.