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Here is a look at 10 Moon Knight storylines that have defined the antihero’s career in Marvel Comics.
10) Werewolf by Night (1975) #32-33
It might surprise some readers to know that Moon Knight made his debut in the Marvel horror comic Werewolf by Night. While he debuted in Werewolf by Night #32 as a villain, hired to kill Jack Russell, he realized what was going on, and it turned out he was a mercenary with morals, and he helped save the heroic werewolf at the end by betraying the men who hired him. This showed the power of Moon Knight and helped introduce a new Marvel Comics anti-hero, with him being popular enough to warrant his own ongoing storyline just one year later.
9) Marvel Spotlight (1976) #28-29
While Werewolf by Night introduced Moon Knight as an anti-hero, it was his solo run, starting in Marvel Spotlight #28, that showed who he really was. This was the series that really set up Moon Knight’s story, and it was where his alternate identities as Steven Grant and Jake Lockley made their first appearance. At this time, they were just identities he used to accomplish certain things, keeping his mercenary identity separate from his millionaire identity, which financed the operations. It also sets up his street-level identity as a cab driver, which was separate, so he could investigate things on every level of society. This was also where his relationship with Frenchie really developed.
8) Moon Knight # 1 (1980)
The first Moon Knight solo series launched in 1980, and while a lot of his origin story has changed over the years, this was the first series where Marvel attempted to give Marc Spector his origin story. This issue revealed the first appearance of the Statue of Khonshu, and while also serving as the first appearance of Moon Knight’s greatest foe, Bushman. While this shows how Marc originally became Moon Knight in flashbacks. The present day shows Bushman active in New York, and Moon Knight begins his quest to protect NYC from people like his old nemesis. This was a perfect introduction to Moon Knight as the latest street-level Marvel hero.
7) Moon Knight: Resurrection War (1998)
The third volume of Moon Knight arrived in 1998. This was after he became a superhero, worked with the Avengers, and had a long-running series that was hit and miss called Marc Spector: Moon Knight. That series ended with his death after he officially quit the Avengers. Officially recognized as Moon Knight Vol. 3, this was a four-issue miniseries that brought Moon Knight back to life, resurrecting him and returning him to the Marvel Universe. With the creative team of original Moon Knight writer Doug Moench and Tommy Lee Edwards, this is the series that establishes that Khonshu is real and not a figment of Marc’s imagination.
6) Moon Knight (2006)
Arguably one of the best Moon Knight stories ever written, the 2006 comic book series sees Charlie Huston and David Finch team up to present Marc at his lowest, with possibly the best down-and-dirty version of Moon Knight in history. This is the series that officially introduced the dissociative identity disorder (DID) angle as a fact, and this is the first time all his personalities remained separate, without knowing what the others were doing. The first 12 issues of this series see Moon Knight doing some unthinkable things, and it just gets wilder from there.
