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Marvel's stronger-than-steel man of the streets, Luke Cage, partners with the mystic kung fu master Iron Fist in the beginning of one of the greatest teams in comic-book history! Together Power Man and Iron Fist are heroes for hire, taking any on any job, any challenge, so long as their clients can meet the price. But both heroes have long pasts and old foes out to destroy them. Between those menaces and making ends meet, it's a life short on downtime and long on action!
COLLECTING: Power Man 48-49, Power Man & Iron Fist 50-70 (Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection Vol. 1)
- Sales Rank: #113614 in Books
- Published on: 2015-08-25
- Released on: 2015-08-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.25" h x .88" w x 6.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
About the Author
Chris Claremont is one of the bestselling comic writers in the world. He wrote The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2. He has been the co-creator of several top-selling series for Marvel Comics, including Excalibur, Wolverine, New Mutants, and, in the United Kingdom, Captain Britain. He wrote the Star Trek twenty-fifth-anniversary graphic novel Debt of Honor and a Next Generation sequel, Cry, Vengeance, for DC Comics, as well as" "Alien/Predator: The Deadliest of Species for Dark Horse. His debut novel was Firstflight, the story of a young female astronaut in the twenty-first century, to which he wrote two sequels, Grounded and Sundowner. He collaborated with George Lucas on three novels in The Chronicles of the Shadow War, and has delved into fantasy with the publication of Dragon Moon, a dark fantasy novel co-authored with his wife, Beth Fleisher. The couple lives in Brooklyn with their two children.
Kerry Gammill, an artist who specializes in Hollywood monster design, is the author of the perennial favorite "Drawing Monsters and Heroes for Film and Comics. He lives in Fort Worth, TX.
John Byrne, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is one of Britain's top cartoonists, comedy writers and stand-up comedians with wide-ranging experience in performance, production and the teaching of creative skills. He is currently the resident artist on Nickelodeon TV (UK), drawing live and unscripted, and often with "art materials" that include everything from sausages to toothbrushes to TV presenters with luminous paint in their hair. He has a six year-old son Pearse, is married to Fumi, and has a house full of teen in-laws (who he loves dearly—especially since realizing the importance of babysitters!).
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate these two go together
By Stephen Vincent Kempton
We really have the 70's boom of cheap movie making to thank for this collection and one of the greatest team ups ever.
Luke Cage, Hero For Hire was born as a result of the boom in Cinema called Blaxplotation Movies such as Shaft. Luke Cage was created in 1972 by Archie Goodwin and George Tuska .
Likewise Danny Rand, Iron Fist was the result of the popularity of ChopSuky Movies such as those of Bruce Lee. He was created two years later in 1974 by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane.
Iron Fist was soon taken over by new writer Chris Claremont and new artist John Byrne . They did a great run together but sadly never met with any great sales success. I strongly recommend the previously just released Iron Fist Epic Collection for those great stories.
In 1977 Iron Fist had just been canceled after the run in Marvel Feature and the fifteen issue solo series. Claremont and Bryne looked for ways to bring back Iron Fist , first in a two part Marvel Team Up then in the stories collected here.
Claremont took over the writing of Power Man with #47 .Claremont and George Tuska did one issue solo before Iron Fist guest starred in Power Man #48 and #49.
This two parter is excellent and brought in John Byrne to the regular penciler job for three issues. Doctor Burnstein , the man who created Luke Cage has been abducted and the story opens with Cage looking for Misty Knight . Misty's Daughters Of The Dragon partner Colleen Wing is also featured. The villain turns out to be The Bushmaster who is featured in a previous Misty Knight storyline.
With issue #50 the book officially changes titles to become Power Man and Iron Fist. Iron Fist comic was already cancelled and Power Man was on the verge of it. The editorial team hoped that the combined readers from the two books would keep this book afloat. Issue #50 also clears up a long running plot in which Luke Cage was falsely accused and served Prison time at Seagate Prison. His name is finally cleared.
Issue #51 to #53 is three part story plotted by Chris Claremont . But Claremont scripted the first issue only, then Ed Hannigan ( mostly known for his penciling ) scripts the second and third parts. The story itself is a bit wonky about a bunch of robots who take over jobs as street level gangsters. But it does feature the villainess The Deadly Nightshade in it , so it gets a pass from me. Mike Zeck is introduced as the new regular penciler but he is gone after two issues. Speedy Sal Buscema fills in on PM & IF #53.
Power Man & Iron Fist #54 and #55 are a pair of unremarkable solo stories from writer Ed Hannigan and Golden Age great Lee Elias. In the first one the duo meet a lame villain in an asbestos suit called The Incinerator. In the second one the team work as spokesmodels at a Car Show and have to figure out who is stealing cars.
In issue #56 we get a new regular team Jo Duffy (called Mary Jo Duffy In early credits) and Trevor Von Eeden. Jo Duffy is a name that would become synonymous with the characters. She had the longest run on the book. Jo Duffy does not get nearly enough credit for being one of the first really excellent female writers. Up on till now most of Marvel's female writers where simply wives and girlfriends of existing male writers.
Jo Duffy started as a fan and frequent letter page writer. In 1979 she had an editorial job at Marvel and expressed interest in writing. Chris Claremont still was listed as writer of the book but with X-Men he had too many assignments going. Editor In Chief Jim Shooter called a meeting intending to pass the writing duties of Ms. Marvel off to Jo Duffy. But both Claremont and Duffy surprised him. Claremont stated he would much rather keep doing Ms. Marvel. Likewise Jo Duffy said she had no interest in Ms. Marvel but loved both Power Man and Iron Fist.
Jo Duffy's first story is great writing debut as a two part story which ran in Power Man & Iron Fist # 56 and #57 It reintroduces the Living Monolith and guest stars the X-Men.
PM & IF #58 introduces a new hero El Aguila , a modern day Zoro. El Aguila (The Eagle in Spanish) was designed by Dave Cockrum.
Power Man & Iron Fist #59 and #60 reintroduced Danny Rand's Irish friend Alan Cavenaugh who is accused of being a terrorist bomber again. Marvel Bullpen gal Friday Marie Severin does the second half of story because Trevor Von Eeden was fired. Von Eeden's art was quite enjoyable but he claims he was fired by Jim Shooter because he was told to "Draw Like Jack Kirby" and he failed to so. I really like Marie Severin's cast portraits on the title page because it demonstrates what a large assemble cast this book was accumulating.
PM & IF #61 and #62 is another good two parter which features the return of Thunderbolt and from Spider-Man Man Mountain Marko. It also introduces new regular penciler Kerry Gammill. Kerry is another excellent choice.
PM & IF #63 and #64 sees the destruction of The Gem Movie Theater that Cage calls home. Duffy does these street level gritty stories quite well.
In issue #65 we find out part owner of Heroes For Hire , Jeryn Hogarth has a James Bond like Canadian Lair complete with sexy female servants. El Aguila joins our heroes for this adventure.
In PM & IF #66 Luke and Danny help Colleen and Misty on a case when The Constictor and Sabretooth get involved.
Issues #67 and #68 are co-plotted with Bob Layton. We meet Bushmaster and Professor Burnstein again . Plus from the Defenders comic one of the Headman.
Duffy gets plotting help again in Power Man & Iron Fist #69. This time in a very short story plotted with Steven Grant . Alan Weiss does a nice fill in art . There is a five page pinup gallery illustrated by Gammill which I enjoyed even more then the regular story. It shows all the places and the people in Luke and Danny's life.
The volume closes with PM & IF #70 another excellent story by Duffy and Gammill which wraps up a very old storyline about Colleen Wing's father.
The book under Duffy has a large assemble cast . Stories are often smaller and street level. In an era when most books were very dark and grim these stories seem lighter with more humour injected in them.
In all you get 448 pages or twenty three full issues of fun filled stories. The reproduction is sharp with vibrant colors and heavy cardstock covers.
My Highest Recommendation.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Two Netflix series stars featured in their first buddy book
By Dan Pace (feral atom)
Power Man and Iron Fist collects the end of Power Man (#48-49) and Powerman and Iron Fist #50-70. Extras include a house ad for the new series (along with Nova, Daredevil and Rampaging Hulk), full page house had from July 1978 titles, satirical house ad drawn by Marie Severin (and possibly written by Roger Stern), and the cover to Sabretooth Classic #1 (Dwayne Turner) which reprinted PM&IF #66.
It'll be interesting to reread this collection next year after watching Luke Cage and Iron Fist series on Netflix. I'm really looking forward to it. Power Man & Iron Fist was the first buddy comic. (there were team-up books and Green Lantern/Green Arrow in 70/71, but nothing quite like this series.
Born out of 70s low-budget cinema, Hero for Hire (1972) debuted soon after Shaft (1971) and Iron Fist in Marvel Premiere (1974) debuted soon after Kung Fu Tv Series (1972-75) and The Five Fingers of Death (1972). Roy Thomas says that he was inspired by the movie's Ceremony of the Iron Fist. Marvel's super-hero take was to have one guy be wrongfully imprisoned and then imbued with Steel-hard Skin and the other could focus his chi and summon the mystical force of an energy powered punch called the Iron Fist. Both series were novel and gritty, but ultimately, couldn't sustain solo titles.
Iron Fist shut down in 1977, with a cross-over finale guest-starring the X-men. Issue 14 had a great story with Sabretooth. The Masterworks series is excellent and can be found below cover price or you can pick up the affordable and recently released Iron Fist Epic Collection, which contains both Masterworks issues.
Hero for Hire morphed into Power Man. Hero for Hire Masterworks was just released. Archie Goodwin is an amazing writer and it shows, even though he only wrote the first three issues.
Anyhow, Power Man #48 had a cover date of December 1977, coinciding with the conclusion of the Daughters of the Dragon Marvel Team-up which co-starred Misty, Colleen and Iron Fist in a two-parter. Like combining chocolate and peanut butter in a Reese cup, Marvel took two promising ideas, two characters that were very different and brought them together to form the classic buddy book, Power Man and Iron Fist with issue #50.
The first three issues are fantastically drawn by John Byrne and deftly inked by Dan Green. Green's soft brushstrokes brought out a ethereal side of Byrne's pencils quite different than Austin's more precise inking on X-men. Green also inked Byrne on Iron Fist 14-15, among other projects.
Written by Chris Claremont, I think the three issues hold up well over time. As the cover of #48 indicates, at first Cage and Fist are on opposite sides as Cage is hired to abduct Misty Knight. Cage is caught in a no-win situation and is hoping to draw things out, waiting for an opportunity to turn the tables. #50 is the first appearance of the fashion model / love interest, Harmony.
In #51-52, Mike Zeck does a great job, first being inked by the accomplished Ernie Chan and then by series mainstay Ricardo Villamonte. The third issue of the storyline is penciled by Sal Buscema, who does a credible job for a story that he most likely was handed at the last minute (Deadly Deadline of Doom and all). Robots abound as crime boss Morgan and Joy Meachem are in these issues, along with the debut of Nightshade. I really liked Nightshade as a villain, though its never explained how these two small-time crime bosses came up with giant robots that were as tough as Cage.
#54-55 are penciled by Lee Elias, a guy I admire from his 50s work on Black Cat and other Harvey Horror material before going to DC. The PM&IF issues are not indicative of this guy's quality. To make matters worse, Ed Hannigan puts in a pedestrian script without any input from Claremont this time around. They fight the forgettable Incinerator, a tiger and some street-level criminals.
A couple of notes here: I'm not sure what happened on page 153. There's a black box over the bruce lee movie poster, Game of Death. I don't have the original issue on hand and couldn't find anything in a quick search.
Also, Ed Hannigan has several characters use the term "buck" to refer to Luke Cage. Though Claremont used it in #50, Rackham was clearly meant to be racist. I think having random characters use it made the phrase really stick out in an uncomfortable way. I don't know if I've ever heard it used in comics before. I wasn't even sure what it meant until I looked it up.
#56-57- Trevor von Eeden and Frank Springer up the artistic ante, but Jo Duffy is still developing her sense of the characters. The X-men and the Living Monolith should've made for a great two-parter, but the whole thing didn't quite fit.
#58 - Is the first apperance of El Aguila.
#59-60 The tone of the series starts to shift back to more street-level and deals with the humans around them instead of the super-humans. #59 is the last issue penciled by Trevor von Eeden. Al Gordon's inks are a great pairing with his pencils. Bob Diamond from Sons of the Tiger (Deadly Hands of Kung Fu) guest-stars and is a semi-regular sparring partner for Danny over the next few issues. Alan Cavanaugh comes back into Misty and Danny's life as a suspect in another bombing.
In #60, the supporting cast has grown so large that there's a roll call along the side of the splash page. Marie Severin and Steve Leialoha do the art on this issue.
#61-62 debuts Kerry Gammill on pencils and kicks off a great run on the series with a scene in a graveyard and a mysterious figure throwing dirt on a grave with Luke Cage's name on it. Man Mountain Marko and Thunderbolt also are in these issue. Marko is okay; Thunderbolt struck me as a very interesting character. I would have liked to see him in the series for longer than two issues.
#63-64 Suerte and Muerte, Luck and Death make a return to Cage's life.
#65 has El Aguila return. He's not my favorite character but in rereading these stories, he's better than I remember.
Two interesting notes here: Luke has to keep getting replacement shirts from all the bullets that fly his way. He goes to his tailor to pick up six new silk shirts (try saying that five times fast) and passes a Mr Banner picking up a set of purple pants. I love it!
Also, when they are fighting the female assassins, three ladies corner him. The blonde is referred to as "Jill" and the woman with short hair is referred to as "Sabrina". I take it that the other one is Kelly, right? An homage to Charlie's Angels?
#66 has the Constrictor and Sabretooth against the Daughters of the Dragon and then Cage and Fist. Even though there's such a focus on superpowers in this issue, it still feels like the tone is street-level. This is a great issue with plenty of fights, suspense and a mysterious man in the shadows pulling the strings.
#67 has the return of Bushmaster. This is an intense issue that explores both of his origin as well as Cage's.
#68 - Cage has been shot... and bleeding. How can the man with Steel-hard Skin be pierced with a normal gunshot? The mysteries abound under Jo Duffy and this one's no different. Arthur Nagan from the Defenders Headmen and a relic from the Atlas Era guest-stars.
#69 has a bonus "behind the scenes at Heroes for Hire". I love it! This could've been a prototype for the Marvel Handbook.
#70 "Coconut Snow" features Colleen Wing with a jolt on page 11 that's advertised on the cover.
The art and the stories are better than I remember them being. I enjoyed this title when I was younger. My uncle had the whole series. I had a couple of back issues that I tracked down of Power Man and Iron Fist solo titles but for some reason never had an issue of the pair.
Yes, there's a rough patch in the 50s, but once you get past that, the beginning and ending of this collection is very good.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Power Man was one bad mother.......shut my mouth!
By lance robinson
The 70's were a great time for comics. This compliation of Power Man and Iron Fist is a great example. This Mag is a cross between 2 very popular 70's genres: Black action cinema and Mystical Kung Fu. What can be better than that. Luke Cage(Power Man) is the coolest, funkiest superhero from the streets and his partner Iron Fist is the mysterious, magical Kung Fu master from a secret forbidden city. This set starts right where it should with the first issue of Hero for Hire when Luke and Iron Fist first team up officially. When reading this collection you will find it has everything a young man would want in a comic: Foxey ladies, guns, car chases, martial arts action, weird villians, super science, and fantastic full color art with a great 70's flair. This collection is 70's comics at thier best. The only thing missing is the ads for Xray Specs and Grit.
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