But, did you know he did a few covers for Marvel back in those days?
Here are the two painted covers he did featuring Shang-Chi for Marvel's Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu magazine!
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...but no team up of the characters as the cover suggests.
This November 1975 issue had two stories, with the first featuring Shang-Chi fighting the Shadow-Thief (no relation to the DC character), and ending his Golden Dragon Saga by Doug Moench and Rudy Nebres...
He also did a few other covers for Marvel, one for Marvel Movie Premiere #1 (September, 1975) featuring an adaptation of The Land That Time Forgot, and Marvel Premiere #28 (February, 1976), featuring Marvel's horror based characters, including the Man-Thing, Ghost Rider, Morbius and the Werewolf by Night!
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...while the second story, by Bill Mantlo, Pat Broderick and Terry Austin, featured a team up of Iron Fist and the Sons of the Tiger, fighting a villain called Snake-Eyes (no relation to the G.I. Joe character....), as well as a little feature on the Yakusa.
Makes you wish DC had jumped into the magazine market to get some painted covers of DC characters from Nick Cardy!
Thanks for highlighting these issues by Nick Cardy. It has me thinking I should rebuild my Deadly Hands of Kung Fu collection. I must confess that back in the 70s I tended to disregard the quality of Cardy's work as I was so obsessed by Neal Adams. But now, looking back at Cardy's work on Bat Lash, and his runs on Brave & Bold and Teen Titans, I can appreciate what a master he was.
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