Master of Kung Fu #56

From September 1977, this issue of Master of Kung Fu presents one of the series' most viscerally gripping covers: a dark-clad, hooded figure known as the Black Ninja looms over a bare-chested Shang-Chi, weapons in hand — a nunchaku and a spiked flail — while the cover copy warns he's been "stalked by the most savage foe of all." The dynamic composition by penciler Ron Wilson and inker Mike Esposito puts Shang-Chi in a rare moment of vulnerability, which makes the tension feel genuinely earned. Inside, writer Doug Moench and artist Jim Craig continue one of Marvel's most underrated action series of the decade.