K'un-L'un is a fictional location

Fictional location

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 in the Marvel Comics

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 Universe

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 usually associated with Iron Fist.

Publication history

K'un-L'un first appeared in Marvel Premiere #15 (May 1974), and was created by Roy Thomas

Roy Thomas

Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E...

 and Gil Kane

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Eli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...

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The name was derived from the Kunlun Mountains

Kunlun Mountains

The Kunlun Mountains are one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than 3,000 km. In the broadest sense, it forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim Basin and the Gansu Corridor and continues east south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain.The...

 in Tibet.

K'un-L'un received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

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#4.

Fictional history

K'un-L'un is the stronghold of a colony of humanoid aliens whose spaceship crashed in a pocket dimension that intersects with Earth. Daniel Rand, the boy who would become Iron Fist discovered K'un-L'un. It was there that he gained his powers and became the Iron Fist.

The dominant lifeform of this dimension is the H'ylthri. Its most prominent inhabitants are Master Khan

Master Khan

Master Khan is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.Within the shared universe of that company's publications, Master Khan is a sinister sorcerer "god" of K'un-L'un who demands human blood sacrifices from his worshippers.-Publication history:...

, Yu-Ti, and Lei Kung. The usual means of access to this dimension is through magic.