Matthew Essary
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BATMAN: SOUL OF THE DRAGON Review – Batman Meets Bruce Lee, Sort Of
When the seminal Chinese martial arts film FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH (aka KING BOXER) arrived on US shores in 1972 it set off a tidal wave of “Kung Fu-mania” across the country that saw martial arts seep into all aspects of popular culture. This was especially true of that most American of art forms, comic books. There was an explosion of martial arts-themed characters from every major publisher at the time. Many of those characters faded into obscurity but a few hung on and were reintroduced over the years as the popularity of martial arts ebbed and flowed in the decades since that initial burst of popularity in the early 70s.
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