Kung-Fu Monthly

Capitalising on the success of the Bruce Lee film, Enter The Dragon, Dennis started publishing Kung-Fu Monthly in 1974 after noticing the rising popularity of martial arts and, in particular, Bruce Lee. After seeing people queuing up outside a cinema in Soho, Dennis later said 'I went into the film and saw all these boys cheering and all these girls going weak at the knees. I came out, went over to the office, and said "Right lads, we're going to do a Bruce Lee magazine."' ^[4][5][6] It was an immediate commercial success,^[7] became the world's best-selling Bruce Lee magazine and according to Dennis made £60,000 in its first year.

Kung-Fu Monthly was published by Dennis's newly formed Dennis Publishing,^[8] but issued the magazine under the name of Dennis's other publishing company, H Bunch Associates. The magazine was Dennis Publishing's first magazine^[9] and ran for 13 years, producing 79 issues as well as 12 special edition books/magazines.^[10][11]

In 1975, Dennis licensed the magazine to be produced in 14 countries other than Great Britain,^[12] including the USA, Spain and Germany, although the issue numbers never equalled those of the British version; the American Kung-Fu Monthly, for example, ran to only 32 issues.

It was edited by Don Won Ton and the editor-in-chief was Felix Yen.

The magazine took the form of a poster-magazine, opening up from an approximately A4 page size (28.6 x 21.6 cm) into a large, approximately A1 size (85.8 x 57.2 cm) poster featuring an image of Bruce Lee.

The magazine used the specially commissioned artwork of British illustrators Jeff Cummins and Paul Simmons^[13][14][15]