The 'original' Karate Kid was one of the biggest blockbuster films of the 1980s, and for good reason. It serves as more than just an inspirational tale of the new kid standing up to the local.

• Tamlyn Tomita

Karate Kid #4 'The Rage of Yesterdays Lost' script by David Michelinie writing as Barry Jameson art by Ric Estrada and Joe Staton color by Carl Gafford letters by Milt Snapinn edited by Joe Orlando cover by Ernie Chan (penciller) and Mike Grell (inker) cover date: Sept/Oct 1976 review by Russell 'Bilingual Boy' Burbage dedicated affectionately to Glenn 'Continuity Kid' Walker I have had a bit of a problem turning my attention to reviewing the short-lived Karate Kid series from 1976-1978. Although I have access to all fifteen issues, I really have no interest in the odd way that the series was created and presented.

Tamlyn Tomita

I didn't really get into it until later into the run, after it gets its feet more firmly planted, as it were. And that is only speaking generally; as you are about to read (I hope) I have huge specific problems with Karate Kid #4 due to my life experiences with Japan. So consider this long-winded introduction my apology for not getting to this series earlier. I promise to try to do a monthly review of Karate Kid to the page for the next year; at fifteen issues total that means this should work for the entirety of 2019. Now let's try to muddle through this particular issue where the greatest fighter of the 30th Century faces off against the menace of Master Hand! This issue begins in The Future on a mining asteroid as four Legionnaires are battling a chromium-steel robot armed with sensors to detect and nullify super-powers. We know this because the Legionnaires are considerate enough to tell us.