{"id":3921,"date":"2010-01-03T01:03:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:59:56","slug":"mike-zeck-covers-shang-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Mike Zeck Covers Shang-Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z010310zeck_mokf86.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"724\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we have <strong>Mike Zeck&#8217;s<\/strong> cover to<strong> Master of Kung Fu<\/strong> <strong>#86<\/strong> from <strong>March 1980<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>Master of Kung Fu<\/strong> might sound like a silly title, it was actually a fairly serious series about the son of <strong>Fu Manchu [Shang-Chi]<\/strong> who teams with a group of <strong>British<\/strong> agents a la <strong>James Bond<\/strong>.\u00a0 The series ran from <strong>1974<\/strong> to <strong>1983<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although several writers and artists worked on the series over the years, the <strong>writer<\/strong> most associated with the title is <strong>Doug Moench<\/strong> and <strong>artists<\/strong> <strong>Paul Gulacy<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moench &amp; Gulacy<\/strong> began their run in issue <strong>#22<\/strong> and despite an occasional fill-in continued on the series through issue <strong>#51<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although other artists worked on the series, [and <strong>Mike<\/strong> even did a few issues] it was with issue <strong>#64 <\/strong>that <strong>Mike<\/strong> became the regular artist on <strong>Master of Kung Fu<\/strong>.\u00a0 The team of <strong>Moench and Zeck <\/strong>stayed with the series until <strong>Mike<\/strong> left after completing issue <strong>#101<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the cover at hand&#8230; I like the <strong>intensity<\/strong> of this cover and <strong>Mike<\/strong> really caught the look of <strong>Shang-Chi<\/strong>.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t have a generic super-hero face [or even a generic <strong>Asian<\/strong> super-hero face].<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back tomorrow with a classic <strong>Paul Gulacy Master of Kung Fu<\/strong> <strong>cover<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have Mike Zeck&#8217;s cover to Master of Kung Fu #86 from March 1980. Although Master of Kung Fu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26143,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/26143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}