¡KIAI! #29: Su Majestad la Gasolina

Catalog Note *Heroes de las Artes Marciales* (Heroes of the Martial Arts), issue 29 of the Spanish-language *Colección ¡KIAI!* series, features a serial by Ralph Barby titled *Su Majestad la Gasolina* (His Majesty Gasoline). The opening chapter presents a corporate thriller: Charles Bonastrada, a nervous businessman, faces the executive council of the multinational M.M.M. Corporation, led by President Mark M. Morton, who offer him eleven million dollars to betray young engineers developing a revolutionary technology that threatens corporate interests. Bonastrada refuses. In the parking garage, he encounters Chiong Lee, a Korean-American martial artist employed by the corporation, who demonstrates lethal Tae Kwon Do techniques—including a heart strike and skull-fracturing punch—on Bonastrada's bound bodyguards, establishing the story's action-oriented tone combining corporate intrigue with martial arts violence.