Iron Fist, who's real name is Daniel Rand, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. Iron Fist was created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, and first appeared in Marvel Premiere #15 (May 1974). Iron Fist emerged during the 1970's largely due to a high demand for 'kung fu' heroes at the time.

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.