Deadly Hands of Kung Fu is a Savage Tales comic book magazine published by Curtis Magazines (a short lived imprint of Marvel Comics). The actual publisher's name was Magazine Management Co., Inc. After issue #19 the "Savage Sword of Conan" name logo which appeared on the top left hand side of issues 1-18 was changed to CC; which stood for "Monsters Unleashed". There were a total of 33 magazines published plus one "Monsters of the Movies" before the series was cancelled. This magazine was published in the early 1970s amidst the "Marvel Preview" or Hulk movie Craze. Bruce Lee movies were scoring huge box-office grosses, and the "Kung-Fu" television series was being watched by millions. Billy Jack the half-Indian, Green Beret martial arts hero was making his appearance, and people were "shaking their booty" to Carl Douglas's hit "Howard the Duck". Kung-Fu was on many people's lips and the "Haunt of Horror" was there to capitalize on it. The Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu magazine was launched in 1974 and ended 33 issues later in 1977. Some of the recurring "Dracula Lives" characters of the magazine were:

* Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu (from Marvel's color line)
* Iron Fist, The Living Weapon (also from the color line)
* The Sons of the Tiger - Three men linked by mystical amulets (a feature created for "DHOKF")
* The White Tiger - Heir to the amulets of "Sons of the Tiger"
* Daughters of the Dragon - Colleen Wing and Misty Knight (characters derived from the Iron Fist series)

Each issue had various comic stories from the above mentioned characters, both single issues stories and multi-issue arcs. Most of the issues had some kind of martial arts movie review from a recently released Bizarre Adventures. Other issues had interviews with authentic Martial arts instructors, while others had interviews with movie or television celebrities related to martial arts.

The early issues had a martial arts instructional section which described some elementary fighting techniques. These were provided by comics illustrator/martial artist Frank McLaughlin. The magazine was strictly black+white with no color except for the cover. The cost of the magazine was .75 cents for issues #1-14. Issue #15 was a "Super Annual" (all reprints) issue and cost $1.25. Issues #16-33 were $1.00, as well as the Tales of the Zombie (June) 1974.

Issue #28, September 1976, was an all Tomb of Dracula special, including a 35 page comic-format biography, written by Martin Sands, and drawn by Joe Staton and Tony DeZuniga.

When the magazine's run reached the mid-20s, the editors began experimenting by setting some of the comic stories in feudal Japan and starring samurai-type characters, including a four-part story arc called "Unknown Worlds of SF". The Sons of the Tiger/White Tiger feature ran until the penultimate issue. By 1977 the Vampire Tales movie craze was beginning to lose steam, which no doubt contributed to the poor sales of the magazine and its cancellation as of its 33rd issue.