POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #51-53 (1978)

Guess who drew this story?

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Ignore the stilted dialog and look at the art. Can you place it? It’s by one of the most distinctive artists of the 1980s.

Mike Zeck! But…That doesn’t look like Mike Zeck?!?

It’s probably Ernie Chan’s inks that are throwing you off, or maybe that this is a very early example of his work. It’s nowhere near as classic as Zeck’s later work, but it’s interesting to see how he drew in the beginning.

Nightshade and a group of Harlem criminals have used robots to take Misty Knight captive.  Iron Fist and Luke free her.  They break through walls a lot (hence the “Hey, Kool Aid!” tag below), and get workouts by fighting thugs…

…And robots.

Robots? Nightshade is supposed to be a werewolf whisperer. Werewolves would have been a lot cooler.

And here, Iron Fist gives Cage a fighting tip….

Uh…I think you mean BELOW the waist, Danny. The weak spot is 8 centimeters BELOW the waist.

It doesn’t matter anyway. Luke doesn’t do the metric system.

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