Lewis Lovhaug: Linkara

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• Linkara : So, from I've read, martial arts heroes were becoming a thing in the mid-'70s and it was becoming really popular at Marvel. While they had Shang-Chi, who we briefly mentioned back in the ROMTROSPECTIVE, he wasn't really a superhero in the same way; no secret identity; no costume, unless you call his gi a costume; and not really engaged in superheroics, although certainly fighting supervillainy in the same way other characters were at the time. Iron Fist, however, fully embraced the superhero stuff: mask and costume, secret identity, plus actual superpowers. The inspiration for him apparently came about from two rather different sources, the first being a Golden Age superhero called Amazing Man, who apparently had similar backstory elements, while another was apparently a kung fu movie that Roy Thomas had just seen. According to him, it was a movie that predated Bruce Lee and contained a "Ceremony of the Iron Fist", which he thought would make for a good character name. My Google fu has failed me, and thus I've been unable to find out what that movie was, but there you go.