KUNG FU MASTER RICHARD DRAGON #1 Dragon's Fist (1974) by Jim Dennis
Monday, May 8, 2006 3:00:26 AM
I've never been able to find out if there was a Richard Dragon #2 but this novel was the basis for the first four issues of Richard Dragon Kung Fu Master comic book, we may assume that if there was a second novel that material may have been used in the comic.
Richard Dragon is a martial arts master trained by O-Sensei. O-Sensei had studied all of the martial arts and philosophies and melded the best of each into his own system, in essence a reverse engineered version of Sinanju.
In this adventure, Richard Dragon is called out of his retirement to help O-Sensei's daughter who is believed to have the key to a new energy source and has been kidnapped. But this is a mcguffin as it serves as an excuse for Dragon to engage in several martial arts fights to track down her kidnapper The Swiss, and recall the events that lead him to become the Kung Fu Master.
And that's one thing I couldn't help was comparing Richard Dragon to Remo Williams. Both are masters of their respective martial arts, Remo can become Shiva, Richard can become The Dragon, Remo works for CURE (which isn't an acronym) Richard has a rocky relationship with GOOD (which isn't an acronym) Indeed, if Sapir had been sucessful in killing off Chuin in Destroyer #5 this could have been Destroyer #6 with the names changed.
I'll certainly be chasing down the Richard Dragon comic series based on this novel.








Anonymous # Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:06:22 PM
Brad MengelAggressorBrad # Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:11:21 PM
Looking back over the post I should have said I never found out for sure that there wasn't a second novel, even if the first has #1 on it. All of the Richard Dragon comics are something I want to pick up. That's the problem of being born when a lot of this stuff was just coming out, I've got to go back and chase it all down.
Brad
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