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SME |
Special Marvel Edition |
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MOKF |
Master of Kung Fu |
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MOKF GS |
Giant Size Master of Kung Fu |
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MOKF AN |
Master of Kung Fu Annual |
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DHOKF |
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu |
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DHOKF SAE |
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Special Album Edition |
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MCP |
Marvel Comics Presents |
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MOKF BB |
Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black (1990) |
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MOKF MAX |
Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu (2002) |
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JIM |
Journey Into Mystery |
| CHRON DATE | SERIES | # | STORY TITLE | |
| 1971 | ||||
| September | SME | 15 | Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu | |
| September | SME | 16 | Midnight Brings Dark Death | |
| September | DHOKF | 1 | Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu | |
| September | MOKF | 17 | Lair of the Lost | |
| 1972 | ||||
| March | DHOKF | 2 | Shang Chi: Master of Kung Fu | |
| March | DHOKF | 3 | Web of Bleeding Vipers | |
| March | MOKF | 18 | Part 1: Attack | |
| March | MOKF | 19 | Part 2: Retreat | |
| March | MOKF | 20 | Part 3: Weapon of the Soul | |
| March | MOKF | 21 | Part 4: Season of Vengeance | |
| May | MOKF GS | 1 | Story 2: Frozen Past, Shattered Memories | |
| May | MOKF GS | 1 | Story 3: Reflections in a Rippled Pool | |
| May | MOKF GS | 1 | Story 1 Part 1: Death Masque | |
| May | MOKF GS | 1 | Story 1 Part 2: The Enemy Within | |
| May | MOKF GS | 1 | Story 1 Part 3: The Council of Seven | |
| August | MOKF | 22 | Fortune of Death | |
| 1973 | ||||
| June | DHOKF SAE | 1 | The Master Plan of Fu Manchu | |
| June | DHOKF | 4 | Circle of Serpent's Blood | |
| July | DHOKF | 5 | Two Goals to Seek, One Path to Glory | |
| August | DHOKF | 6 | Lesson of the Locust | |
| September | DHOKF | 7 | The Past Assassins | |
| October | DHOKF | 8 | A Hatred for All Seasons | |
| November | DHOKF | 9 | A Contest of Truth | |
| 1974 | ||||
| January | DHOKF | 11 | A Different Lesson In Blood Unchanged | |
| September | MOKF GS | 2 | Part 1: The Devil Doctor's Triumph | |
| September | MOKF GS | 2 | Part 2: Air | |
| September | MOKF GS | 2 | Part 3: Deceit | |
| September | MOKF GS | 2 | Part 4: Dementia | |
| September | MOKF | 23 | Part 1: River of Death | |
| September | MOKF | 24 | Part 2: Massacre Along the Amazon | |
| September | MOKF | 25 | Part 3: Rights of Courage, Fists of Death | |
| December | MOKF GS | 3 | Part 1: Fires of Rebirth | |
| December | MOKF GS | 3 | Part 2: London | |
| December | MOKF GS | 3 | Part 3: Crucible of Deceit | |
| December | MOKF GS | 3 | Part 4: Test of Loyalty | |
| December | MOKF | 26 | Part 1: Daughter of Darkness | |
| December | MOKF | 27 | Part 2: Confrontation | |
| December | MOKF | 28 | Part 3: A Small Spirit Slowly Shaped | |
| 1975 | ||||
| February | DHOKF | 12 | Part 1: Blood of the Golden Dragon | |
| February | DHOKF | 13 | Part 2: The Dragon Dies at Midnight | |
| February | DHOKF | 14 | Part 3: Thief in Golden Shadows | |
| February | DHOKF | 16 | Part 4: Demons in Painted Death | |
| February | DHOKF | 17 | Part 5: The Key to the Dragon's Heart | |
| February | DHOKF | 18 | Part 6: Secret of the Dragon | |
| March | MOKF GS | 4 | Part 1: Why a Tiger Claw | |
| March | MOKF GS | 4 | Part 2: The Way of the Tiger: A Movement in Blood | |
| March | MOKF | 36 | Part 1: Cages of Myth, Menagerie of Mirrors | |
| March | MOKF | 37 | Part 2: Web of Dark Death | |
| March | MOKF | 29 | Part 1: The Crystal Connection | |
| March | MOKF | 30 | Part 2: A Gulf of Lions | |
| March | MOKF | 31 | Part 3: Snowbuster | |
| April | MOKF | 102 | A Vision of Winter in Spring | |
| June | MOKF | 32 | Part 1: Assault on an Angry Sea | |
| June | MOKF | 33 | Part 2: Wicked Messenger of Madness | |
| June | MOKF | 34 | Part 3: Cyclone at the Center of a Madman's Crown | |
| June | MOKF | 35 | Part 4: Death-Hand and the Sun of Mordillo | |
| December | MOKF | 38 | Part 1: Cat | |
| December | MOKF | 39 | Part 2: Fight without Pity | |
| December | MOKF | 40 | Part 3: The Murder Agency | |
| December | MOKF | 41 | Part 4: Slain in Secrecy and Illusion | |
| December | MOKF AN | 1 | The Fortress of Sahra Sharn | |
| December | DHOKF | 29 | To Slay the Savior | |
| December | MOKF | 42 | Part 5: The Clock of Shattered Time | |
| December | MOKF | 43 | Part 6: A Flash of Purple Sparks | |
| December | MOKF | 44 | Part 7: Prelude - Golden Daggers (A Death Run) | |
| December | MOKF | 45 | Part 8: Part One - Death Seed | |
| December | MOKF | 46 | Part 9: Part Two (Clive Reston) - The Spider Spell | |
| December | MOKF | 47 | Part 10: Part Three (Leiko Wu) - Phantom Sand | |
| December | MOKF | 48 | Part 11: Part Four (Black Jack Tarr) - City in the Top of the World | |
| December | MOKF | 49 | Part 12: Part Five (Sir Dennis Nayland Smith) - The Affair of the Agent that Died | |
| December | MOKF | 50 | Part 13: Part Six (Fu Manchu) - The Dreamslayer | |
| December | MOKF | 51 | Part 14: Epilogue - Brass and Blackness (A Death Move) | |
| 1976 | ||||
| February | MOKF | 52 | A Night at the 1001 Nights | |
| MOKF | 53 | MOKF #53 is a reprint of issue #20 and should be chronologically ignored. | ||
| September | MOKF | 59 | Part 1: The Phoenix Gambit – The Temple of Time | |
| September | MOKF | 60 | Part 2: The Phoenix Gambit – The End | |
| September | DHOKF | 31 | Part 1: Dark Waters of Death | |
| September | DHOKF | 32 | Part 2: The Tiger-Sons Must Die | |
| November | DHOKF | 33 | Between Two Hates | |
| 1977 | ||||
| April | MOKF | 54 | Part 1: The Story of War-Yore | |
| April | MOKF | 56 | Part 2: Of Heroes Past and Battles Present | |
| April | MOKF | 57 | Part 3: Call It Thunder | |
| April | MOKF | 58 | Part 4: The Final Faces | |
| May | MOKF | 55 | The Ages of Death | |
| November | MOKF | 61 | Part 1: Glass Orchids | |
| November | MOKF | 62 | Part 2: Red Seas | |
| November | MOKF | 63 | Part 3: Hiding Cats | |
| November | MOKF | 65 | Part 4: Black Knights | |
| November | MOKF | 66 | Part 5: Two Rivers | |
| November | MOKF | 67 | Part 6: Dark Encounters | |
| November | MOKF | 68 | Part 7: Final Combats | |
| November | MOKF | 69 | Part 8: Stairway to Rage | |
| 1978 | ||||
| February | MOKF | 70 | Home to Die | |
| February | MOKF | 64 | Deadly Lessons: Like Father, Like Son | |
| March | MOKF | 71 | Part 1: Nightimes | |
| March | MOKF | 72 | Part 2: Traitors to the Crown | |
| March | MOKF | 73 | Part 3: Prisoners of the Crown | |
| March | MOKF | 74 | Part 4: Brynocki Triumphant | |
| March | MOKF | 75 | Part 5: Shattered Crowns | |
| March | MOKF | 76 | Part 6: Smoke, Beads & Blood | |
| March | MOKF | 77 | Part 7: Weapons | |
| March | MOKF | 78 | Part 8: Tread the Night Softly | |
| March | MOKF | 79 | Part 9: To Sleep this Side of Death | |
| March | MOKF | 80 | Part 10: The Pride of Leopards | |
| March | MOKF | 81 | Part 11: Breathless | |
| March | MOKF | 82 | Part 12: Like a God Weeping Fire | |
| March | MOKF | 83 | Part 13: Part One - The Phoenix and the Snake | |
| March | MOKF | 84 | Part 14: Part Two - The Bull and the Dragon | |
| March | MOKF | 85 | Part 15: Part Three - The Ram and The Dove | |
| March | MOKF | 86 | Part 16: Part Four - The Phoenix and the Dragon | |
| March | MOKF | 87 | Part 17: Part Five – The Chrysalis and the Peacock | |
| March | MOKF | 88 | Part 18: Part Six - The Leopard and the Dove | |
| March | MOKF | 89 | Part 19: Part Seven - The Dragons | |
| April | MOKF | 90 | Part 1: Triumphs of the Flesh | |
| April | MOKF | 91 | Part 2: Triumphs of the Spirit | |
| April | MOKF | 92 | Part 3: Shadows of a Silent Past | |
| July | MOKF | 93 | Part 1: Midnight Wind | |
| July | MOKF | 94 | Part 2: Agent Syn's Nightmare | |
| July | MOKF | 95 | Part 3: The Samisdat Secret | |
| October | MOKF | 96 | Part 1: Carter's Super Midnight | |
| October | MOKF | 97 | Part 2: Lost Art | |
| October | MOKF | 98 | Part 3: The Journey as Goal | |
| 1979 | ||||
| January | MOKF | 99 | Part 1: Bitter Harvest | |
| January | MOKF | 100 | Part 2: Red of Fang and Claw, All Love Lost | |
| January | MOKF | 101 | Part 3: Not Smoke, Nor Beads, Nor Blood | |
| May | MOKF | 103 | Part 1: A City A Sea | |
| May | MOKF | 104 | Part 2: Fight without Reason | |
| May | MOKF | 105 | Part 3: The Razor-Fist Connection | |
| May | MOKF | 106 | Part 4: The Assassin Master | |
| 1981 | ||||
| September | MOKF | 107 | Part 1: A Painless Result of Having Lived | |
| September | MOKF | 108 | Part 2: Chameleons | |
| September | MOKF | 109 | Part 3: The Dark Angel's Kiss | |
| September | MOKF | 114 | A Fantasy of the Autumn Moon | |
| December | MOKF | 110 | Part 1: Perilous Reign | |
| December | MOKF | 111 | Part 2: Deadly Rain | |
| 1982 | ||||
| March | MOKF | 112 | Part 1: Commit and Destroy | |
| March | MOKF | 113 | Part 2: Learn and Burn | |
| May | MOKF | 115 | Part 1: Deals | |
| May | MOKF | 116 | Part 2: Blood of His Blood | |
| May | MOKF | 117 | Part 3: Devil Deeds Done in Darkness | |
| May | MOKF | 118 | Part 4: Flesh of My Flesh | |
| July | MOKF | 120 | Dweller by the Dark Stream | |
| September | MOKF | 119 | Brynoki's Marauders | |
| November | MOKF | 121 | Passing Strangers | |
| December | MOKF | 122 | The Madhouse Effect | |
| 1983 | ||||
| January | MOKF | 123 | Part 1: Sins of the Son | |
| January | MOKF | 124 | Part 2: Retribution | |
| January | MOKF | 125 | Part 3: Atonement | |
| 1988 | ||||
| June | MCP | 1 | Part 1: Crossing Lines Part One - Ripples | |
| June | MCP | 2 | Part 2: Crossing Lines Part Two - Bait | |
| June | MCP | 3 | Part 3: Crossing Lines Part Three - Fish | |
| June | MCP | 4 | Part 4: Crossing Lines Part Four - Water | |
| June | MCP | 5 | Part 5: Crossing Lines Part Five - Lures | |
| June | MCP | 6 | Part 6: Crossing Lines Part Six - Shaols | |
| June | MCP | 7 | Part 7: Crossing Lines Part Seven - Hooks | |
| June | MCP | 8 | Part 8: Crossing Lines Part Eight - Kills | |
| 1989 | ||||
| March | MCP | 156 | Part 1: The Gauntlet - Part I | |
| March | MCP | 157 | Part 2: The Gauntlet - Part II | |
| March | MCP | 158 | Part 3: The Gauntlet - Part III | |
| December | MOKF BB | 1 | Bleeding Black | |
| 1994 | ||||
| August | MOKF MAX | 1 | Part 1: Hellfire Apocalypse | |
| August | MOKF MAX | 2 | Part 2: Immortal Blood | |
| August | MOKF MAX | 3 | Part 3: Ghost in Paradise | |
| August | MOKF MAX | 4 | Part 4: Hellfire | |
| August | MOKF MAX | 5 | Part 5: Shadow Moves | |
| August | MOKF MAX | 6 | Part 6: The Devil's Son | |
| 1997 | ||||
| August | JIM | 514 | Part 1: The Ripple That Stirs | |
| August | JIM | 515 | Part 2: The Ripple That Stirs | |
| August | JIM | 516 | Part 3: The Ripple That Stirs | |
Notes:
This is a chronologic reading order. It is not a suggested reading order. In terms of an enjoyable reading experience, it's probably best to read the MOKF series and DHOKF series as separate entities.
- MOKF GS #1 Part 4: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: This resolves both chronologic story-line continuity and geographic location issues concerning the events of MOKF # 21, MOKF GS # 1, and MOKF#22.
- MOKF GS #1 Part 5: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: This resolves both chronologic story-line continuity and geographic location issues concerning the events of MOKF # 21, MOKF GS # 1, and MOKF#22.
- MOKF #36 & #37: Sequentially relocated and chronologically adjusted. Rationale: MOKF #36 and #37 are fill-in issues. Smith, Tarr, Reston, and Shang Chi are in Smith's Central Park West townhouse in New York. This fits geographic continuity. Tarr and reston are playing chess. Presumably, the same game of chess they are playing in MOKF #29. Leiko is not present or mentioned in this story. This suggests these events occur before Shang Chi and Leiko first meet.
- MOKF #53: is a reprint of issue #20. Therefore, it should be chronologically and sequentially ignored.
- MOKF #55: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: MOKF #55 is a fill-in issue and interrupts a four part story. It should follow after issue #58. Plot details and events are intertwined with, but must follow, the resurrection of Shaka Kharn as recorded in MOKF #40-51.
- MOKF: #59: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: This resolves chronologic story-line continuity issues concerning the relationship of Shang Chi and Leiko detailed in MOKF #58 and #61.
- MOKF: #60: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: Issues #59 and #60 form a single indivisible story-line.
- MOKF #64: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: MOKF #64 is a fill-in issue and interrupts an eight part story-line. Chronologically, for geographic location continuity, it should follow after issue #70.
- MOKF #102: Sequentially relocated. Rationale: This resolves chronologic story-line continuity issues concerning the events of MOKF # 101, 102, and 103.
- MOKF #114: Sequentially relocated and chronologically adjusted to September 1981. Rationale: This resolves logic and chronologic story-line continuity issues concerning the date of events as recorded in MOKF # 113, 114, 115, and 120.
- MOKF #120: Sequentially relocated and chronologically adjusted to July. Rationale: Shang Chi explicitly states the month is July.
For a more detailed exposition see: Continuity
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