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This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the Moon Knight backup series in Hulk! For my look at earlier Moon Knight stories click HERE.

HULK! Vol 1 #11 (Oct 1978)

Title: Graven Image of Death

Villains: Joel Luxor and Fenton Crane

Synopsis: A murder investigation leads Moon Knight to a plan to steal a statue of the Egyptian god Horus from a New York museum. Our hero tries to thwart the robbery and learns from the perpetrator that amoral black market art collector Joel Luxor wanted the theft pulled off.

While Moon Knight goes off to confront Luxor he sends Marlene Fontaine, the girlfriend of his three secret identities – Mercenary Marc Spector, Millionaire Steven Grant and Cab Driver Jake Lockley – to get information from museum curator Fenton Crane. Luxor gets killed by goons working for the real brains of the operation – Fenton Crane, who captures Marlene. Continue reading →

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the earliest 1970s appearances of the Marvel character Moon Knight.

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT Vol 1 #32 (Aug 1975)

Title: The Stalker Called Moon Knight

Villains: The Committee

NOTE: Jack Russell (Americanized from Russoff) was an established Marvel character who suffered from the family curse of lycanthropy. Jack faced several horrors while seeking a cure for his family curse. 

Synopsis: In Los Angeles, Jack’s recurring foes the Committee have returned and still want to force Jack to become their unwilling Werewolf assassin. This time around they have hired a ruthless mercenary named Marc Spector and provided him with a costume, silver cestus gloves, silver boots, a silver truncheon and silver crescent moon blades so he can capture the Werewolf for them.

NOTE: This origin for Moon Knight would be retconned in the future, replaced with Khonshu the Moon God empowering and equipping Marc Spector when he was mortally wounded while robbing tombs in Egypt.

Moon Knight arrives at Jack’s Los Angeles apartment, where Jack shows up shortly before the Full Moon rises and turns him into the Werewolf. The pair fight it out through the streets of L.A. while Moon Knight’s helicopter pilot Frenchie abducts Jack’s sister Lissa and girlfriend Topaz.

Moon Knight’s silver weaponry enables him to eventually defeat the Werewolf, given its vulnerability to silver. He knocks out the beast and begins to carry him up the rope ladder to Frenchie’s helicopter hovering overhead. Continue reading →