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Issue Details

Issue #61
Published February 1978
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing Archie Goodwin

Cover Details - "Savage is the Skull Crusher!"

Characters Shang Chi; Skull Crusher
Genre martial arts
Pencils Jim Craig
Inks Sal Trapani

17 page Master of Kung Fu story "Glass Orchids"

Characters Skull Crusher (Introduction); Shang-Chi; Black Jack Tarr; Leiko Wu; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Melissa Greville; Clive Reston; Juliette
Synopsis While Shang-Chi fights the Skull crusher, romance blooms and withers among his friends.
Genre martial arts
Script Doug Moench
Pencils Jim Craig
Inks John Tartaglione [as Tartag]
Colors Phil Rachelson [as P. Rache]
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Pete Iro

1 page letters page "Missives to the Master!"

Script Doug Moench ?
Letters typeset
Notes Contest announcement. Contest results are eventually published in Master of Kung Fu #73. Letters of comment from readers Henry R. Kujawa and Selina Zane. Placed between pages 11 and 12 of sequence 1.

1 page Thor; Hostess Fruit Pies advertisement "The Ding-a-Ling Family"

Characters Thor; Sif; Volstagg
Genre superhero
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Advertisement for the ITT Continental Baking Company. Placed between pages 15 and 16 of sequence 1.