This is very ironic. This is the first appearance of The White Tiger in a color comic (he previously appeared in a B&W magazine), but his first appearance in the color comic is in a black and white newspaper!
And in another layer of irony, the storyline is about racism between the blacks and whites!
As Spider-Man is looking through the Daily Bugle files on White Tiger, he finds references to all the characters’ prior appearances in the black-and-white Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Magazine.
Most of those stories haven’t really been canon before. So here, they become canon-ish. In so doing, Shang Chi kinda becomes a Marvel Universe character as well.
To introduce the character to the main Marvel Universe, we get some full-color recaps of those old tales.
And of course White Tiger is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, so Spider-Man fights him.
Just once I’d like to see Spidey say, “Hey, I’ve been accused of a lot of stuff that I didn’t do. Maybe we should talk first?”
And they end as friends.
I had the notion that WT was co-created by Mantlo and George Pérez for the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu in 1975
That’s right! That’s the B&W comic referenced in the post. To help clarify, I’ve added this link to the post:
http://earthsmightiestblog.com/deadly-hands-of-kung-fu-magazine-16-1975-1976-1st-white-tiger-jack-of-hearts/
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