Iron Fist

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Iron Fist Name Iron Fist Author/Creator Roy Thomas Publisher Marvel Country USA Serialized in Iron Fist Original run Noveber 1975 - September 1986 Number of Volumes

Iron Fist is a comic book as well as the superhero published by Marvel in 1974 that featured a masked man possessing great martial art skill. It was written and created by Roy Thomas and drawn by Gil Kane.

Plot Summary

Iron Fist was Daniel Rand, an American orphaned at age 9 in the Himalayas and raised in the fabled city of K'un-L'un, one of those lost civilizations that have littered the Tibetan landscape since Shangri-La was first seen in 1937. He was brought up in a martial arts tradition; and when he came of age, competed for and won the Power of the Iron Fist. This entailed three things: miraculous healing power, the ability to use his hands as deadly weapons, and a fancy, dragon-shaped scar on his chest (transferred by mystic means from an actual dragon he fought in gaining the power), which his later superhero costume displayed to excellent effect. He then returned to America to seek vengeance on the man who killed his parents. He had a change of heart at the last minute, but the murderer was eventually killed by a band of ninjas, leaving Iron Fist to take the blame. A major continuing storyline in the early issues concerned his ultimately successful attempt to establish his innocence.