Although spun out of licensed properties, Shang-Chi is a Marvel-owned character and has been firmly established as a part of the Marvel Universe with guest appearances in numerous other titles, such as Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Knights and X-Men.

Shang-Chi was born in the Hunan province of the People's Republic of China, and is the son of Fu Manchu, the Chinese mastermind who has repeatedly attempted world conquest.

In the " Shadowland " storyline, Shang-Chi is one of the heroes fighting The Hand ninjas.

Ultimately, he is too caught up in what Shang-Chi calls ' games of deceit and death ' and fails in this role.

Usually she is an enemy of Shang-Chi and his friends but sometimes she is an ally.

Though he is initially an enemy of Shang-Chi, the two become close friends over time.

Where Bond is a successful womanizer and seems unaffected by heavy drinking, Reston struggles with alcoholism and a romantic rivalry with Shang-Chi.

She is a beautiful Chinese-British woman who is torn between her history with Reston and her growing attraction to Shang-Chi.

* Midnight is an African child named M ' Nai adopted by Fu Manchu, and raised alongside his son Shang-Chi.

* Rufus T. Hackstabber is a memorable character who appeared only twice in the series ; he keeps referring to Shang-Chi as " Chang-Shee ".

Shang-Chi is classed as an athlete but he is one of the best non-superhumans in martial arts and has dedicated much of his life to the art, being referred to by some as the greatest empty handed fighter and practitioner of kung fu alive.

Shang-Chi is also highly trained in the arts of concentration and meditation, and is an expert in various hand-weapons including swords, staves, kali sticks, nunchaku, and shuriken.

In this reality, Shang-Chi is the head of the Dragons criminal organization, alongside Colleen Wing, Swordsman, Mantis, Zaran and Machete.

In the Marvel Zombies continuity, Shang-Chi is turned into a zombie during a multi-hero effort to rescue surviving civilians.

Later, Shang-Chi is seen attacking Magneto once again, but he is cut in half by the Master of Magnetism.

A different Shang-Chi appears in Marvel Zombies Return in an alternate universe where he is unaffected by the zombie outbreak.

With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for " cosmic " tales and space opera ; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock ; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu.

During a HYDRA attempt to take over S. H. I. E. L. D., she is tortured to such an extent that she regresses back to an old cover identity of schoolteacher Nancy Rushman, but she is recovered by Spider-Man in time to help Nick Fury and Shang-Chi work out what had happened and restore her memory, with " Nancy " developing an attraction to Spider-Man before her memory is restored during the final fight against Madam Viper, Boomerang and the Silver Samurai.

Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition # 15 ( December 1973 ) by Englehart and Starlin ( SME # 1 – 14 were reprints of older Marvel superhero stories ).

In this simian version of the Marvel Universe, Shang-Chi and his father work as a subversive organization, trying to get the local sentients to work in peace and not in animalistic domination.

In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Shang-Chi first appeared in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up # 15.

* Shang-Chi at the Marvel Universe

* Shang-Chi from Marvel Comics.

Marvel would later use the actual Fu Manchu as the principal foe of his son, Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu in the 1970s.

After working on Captain Marvel, Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, though they only worked on the early issues of the series.

* Special Marvel Edition ( Shang-Chi ) # 15-16 ( then changes title to Master of Kung Fu ) ( 1973 – 74 )

Iron Fist, along with the previously created Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, came from Marvel Comics during a pop culture trend in the early 1970s for martial arts heroes.

Dagger becomes a member of the now-defunct " Marvel Knights " team, partnering up with many different heroes, including Shang-Chi, Luke Cage, Moon Knight and Daredevil.

Characters such as Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Shang-Chi, and Iron Fist have been seen by some as an attempt by Marvel Comics to cash in on the 1970s crazes for blaxploitation and Kung Fu movies.

Shang-Chi returned as a main character in the 2007 Heroes for Hire comic book, and both he and several characters of his supporting cast appear in that year's Wisdom miniseries.

He exhibits the most bigoted traits of any character and invariably addresses Shang-Chi as ' Chinaman ' rather than using his name.

Following an inking assignment, over penciler Bob Brown on Daredevil # 108 ( March 1974 ), he began work on the character with which he became most associated, the philosophical martial artist / secret agent Shang-Chi in the comic Master of Kung Fu ( cover-billed as The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu ) # 18 ( June 1974 ), inked by Al Milgrom.

Shang-Chi appeared again in issue # 16, and with issue # 17 ( April 1974 ) the title was changed to The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu.

Shang-Chi had two more short series: the Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black graphic novel ( 1990 ) and the MAX miniseries Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse ( 2002 ) ( with artist Paul Gulacy on art again ).

* Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu

* The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu # 121: " Passing Strangers!

* Doug Moench ( Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu Moon Knight )

* Paul Gulacy ( Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu )

He inked Paul Gulacy on Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu, Punisher and Catwoman.

Shang-Chi also appeared in Marvel's Special Collector's Edition # 1 entitled " Savage Fists of Kung Fu ".

Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer, and Shang-Chi in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Special Album Edition # 1, Summer 1974, pp. 29 – 33.