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KUNG FU MASTER RICHARD DRAGON #1 Dragon's Fist (1974) by Jim Dennis

Monday, May 8, 2006 3:00:26 AM

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Jim Dennis is actually a pen name for James R. Berry & Dennis O'Neil, the latter of course being famous as a writer for Batman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow.

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.

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Comments

Anonymous Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:06:22 PM

Glen Davis writes: I don't believe there was a second novel. The first few issues othe comic book series was an adaptaion of the novel. Recently, DC revived Dragon for a short lived run written by Chuck Dixon.

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:11:21 PM

Thanks Glen,

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

Anonymous Saturday, June 3, 2006 8:46:08 AM

Blue Tyson writes: Brad, The recent Richard Dragon comic series was ok. Do you have an isbn for this book? The usual librarything searches didn't bring it up. Thanks, Richard

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Sunday, June 4, 2006 4:27:57 AM

I went an checked my copy it has SBN 426144376.

Brad

Anonymous Sunday, June 4, 2006 4:50:01 PM

Blue Tyson writes: Thanks very much! :)

Anonymous Monday, November 13, 2006 12:10:04 AM

Glen Davis writes: Richard Dragon made an appearance in the DC event 52 this week.

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Monday, November 13, 2006 9:35:49 PM

I've decided to stay away from Crisis, 52, Civil War and other DC and Marvel spanning events for the sake of my wallet. But thanks for the tip

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Monday, November 13, 2006 9:35:51 PM

I've decided to stay away from Crisis, 52, Civil War and other DC and Marvel spanning events for the sake of my wallet. But thanks for the tip

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