The Immortal Iron Fist

Iron Fist is an exceptional athlete, acrobat, and hand-to-hand combatant. He is a master of all of K'un-Lun's martial arts and is said to be trained in the use of virtually all martial arts weapons. As part of his training, he has near-complete control over his nervous system, enabling him to deaden himself to pain.

Through concentration, Iron Fist can harness his spiritual energy (chi) to augment his physical and mental capabilities to peak human levels. By focusing his chi into his hand, he can tap the superhuman energy of Shou-Lao* making his fist superhumanly powerful, immune to pain and injury, hence the name, Iron Fist.

* Rand claimed the power of Shou-Lao the Undying, a man transformed into a mystic serpent over a thousand years.

Iron Fist in his first solo series titled Iron Fist which ran for 15 issues between Nov. 1975 - Sept. 1977. A storyline involving the Steel Serpent was wrapped up in two issues of Marvel Team-Up.

Iron Fist then appeared in issues #48-49 of Luke Cage's series titled Powerman. Iron Fist became a regular character from issue #50 onwards and the title of the series was changed to Powerman and Iron Fist to reflect this. Iron Fist co-starred in this series until the final issue #125 was published in September 1986.

Two solo miniseries followed a decade later. These were Iron Fist vol. 2, #1-2 (Sept.- Oct. 1996), by writer James Felder and penciller Robert Brown, and Iron Fist vol. 3, #1-3 (Jul. - Sept. 1998), by writer Dan Jurgens and penciller Jackson Guice.

Iron Fist joined the cast of Heroes for Hire which ran for 19 issues (Jul. 1997 - Jan. 1999).

Iron Fist teamed up with Wolverine for a 4 issue miniseries titles Iron Fist/Wolverine: The Return of K'un Lun, written by Jay Faerber with art by Jamal Igle, (Nov. 2000 - Feb. 2001).

Another solo miniseries, followed in May - Oct. 2004, titled Iron Fist vol. 4, #1-6, by written by Jim Mullaney with art by Kevin Lau.

The first issue of Iron Fist's second major ongoing series titled, The Immortal Iron Fist, premiered in January 2007, co-written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction with art by David Aja.