*Marvel: One of Marvel’s most successful attempts at diversifying their line in the 1970s was their cash-in on the Martial Arts craze, with Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu! His inauspicious debut in Special Marvel Edition, a series previously devoted to reprints, indicated that there wasn’t much faith in Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin’s co-creation, but readers took him to their collective hearts, and more than 100 issues ensued, with a star roster of creators including Doug Moench, Gene Day and Paul Gulacy. In Special Marvel Edition #15, December 1973, the Son of Fu Manchu discovers his villainous heritage, and sets out to oppose his father, and in #16 he faced his childhood friend and now evil opposite number, the man named Midnight. Only two issues of Special Marvel Edition featured Shang-Chi, as with #17 the title was rechristened Master of Kung Fu in his honour. With the recently-announced arrival of a Shang-Chi film, these issues – never distributed in the UK, and therefore already in high demand – are gaining traction rapidly; issue #15 is VF+, with only a few very light breaks in spine colour, selling at £300; issue #16 is (at the moment) a comparatively bargainaceous FN £20. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD