Current status of Moon Knight?
Electro-Viper
preferably a "Moon Knight For Dummies" that would help someone
understand the character fully, and be brought up to speed on EXACTLY
where Moon Knight was left as of his most recent appearance?
Thanks!
Jacob Wicklund
doctorb...@hotmail.com wrote on 6/5/02 10:30 AM:
Can't help you on the full history but he was seen recently in marvel
knights. Go back to like issue 10-14 or something. Think they did up to 15
then started over at 1 again. Last I saw Moon Knight was a little too stoked
to hook up with the team. He wanted to throw his money around and build a
base and took it upon himself to bring in Luke Cage as hired muscle.
Cousteau
Electro-Viper
suggested, BEFORE you suggested it, and it still didn't really get me
anywhere!
Sorry to sound so annoyed about it, but it's really sort of demeaning
to be told to take the most OBVIOUS ROUTES IMAGINABLE, when you've
already done exactly that.
e-v
Jacob Wicklund <cous...@mac.com> wrote in message news:<B924E4BB.30BC%cous...@mac.com>...
Ralf Haring
(Electro-Viper) wrote:
>Oh, my gosh! Look! I was smart enough to do exactly what you
>suggested, BEFORE you suggested it, and it still didn't really get me
>anywhere!
>
>Sorry to sound so annoyed about it, but it's really sort of demeaning
>to be told to take the most OBVIOUS ROUTES IMAGINABLE, when you've
>already done exactly that.
You asked for his current status and last appearance. Someone gave it
to you. Why are you upset?
-Ralf Haring
"The mind must be the harder, the heart the keener,
the spirit the greater, as our strength grows less."
-Byrhtwold, The Battle of Maldon
Terence Chua
doctorb...@hotmail.com (Electro-Viper) wrote:
>Oh, my gosh! Look! I was smart enough to do exactly what you
>suggested, BEFORE you suggested it, and it still didn't really get me
>anywhere!
>
>Sorry to sound so annoyed about it, but it's really sort of demeaning
>to be told to take the most OBVIOUS ROUTES IMAGINABLE, when you've
>already done exactly that.
>
>e-v
Well, that's going to tell you his current status, isn't it, his last
known appearance? That's a start. What you want is a single source that
tells you everything about the character and that may not exist. Get
what you can, thank people for trying to help and put the pieces
together yourself instead of being snarky about it and assuming everyone
has the time or the obligation to do this.
A search on Google for the terms +"moon knight" +"background" will give
you enough hits to be able to lead you to the rest of the information
you may need - depending on how much detail you want. The only way to
get all the information would then be to track down the individual
appearances yourself. Yes, I've checked on Google. No, I'm not telling
you what I've found because of your attitude - you can do that yourself.
It's called research.
--
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Michael Karalis
http://www.chronologyproject.com/m.htm#MOONKNIGHT
And here is some general history on the character.
Real Name: Marc Spector
Identity/Class: magically enhanced costumed athlete
Occupation: adventurer , entrepreneur , ex-mercenary , ex-cab driver
Affiliations: former member of the Avengers
Scale of Operations: worldwide
Powers: Due to his encounter with the spirit of Khonshu, Marc Spector
possesses increased strength, reflexes, stamina during the full moon, and
his abilities wane back and forth to normal according to the lunar phases.
Spector is also an accomplished fighter and marksman, employing signature
weapons such as the ivory boomerangs and throwing irons, scarab-shaped
darts, a lasso-grapple, a bola, and a weighted ankh, which glows in the
presence of danger.
History:Marc Spector was the son of rabbi Elias Spector, a noted European
Hebrew scholar who had fled to the United States to escape Nazi persecution.
As Marc grew up, he rejected his father's way of life and began to pursue a
very materialistic existence. He first became a liaison to the Central
Intelligence Agency, and resigned a few years later to become a mercenary
soldier. He fought in three African wars and five South American
revolutions. It was in Africa that Spector met pilot Jean-Paul DuChamp, whom
he nicknamed "Frenchie," a man who would become his most trusted aide and
constant companion.
At the peak of his career as a soldier of fortune, Spector worked as
second-in-command to Roald Bushman, a terrorist for hire who had his face
tattooed as a death mask. While fighting rebel forces in the Sudan, Spector
learned that Bushman planned to loot a nearby archeological dig. Already
aware that he was working on the wrong side, Spector decided to leave
Bushman that night. However, Dr. Peter Alraune, an American archeologist
trying to preserve the dig's treasures, tried to stab Bushman in the back.
Spector instinctively stopped him. Bushman murdered the archeologist.
Sickened, Spector warned the archeologist's daughter Marlene to get to
safety, and then challenged Bushman. Bushman bested Spector and left him out
in the desert to die.
Spector was carried to shelter by adherents of the ancient Egyptian
religion, but it was apparently too late to save his life. For nearly a
minute, Spector lay before the statue of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the
moon. Inexplicably, Spector's heart began beating again. In a delirium, he
attributed his revival to Khonshu and declared himself the moon's knight of
vengeance. Draping himself in a white cloth, Spector destroyed Bushman's
organization in that part of the world, and then took Frenchie and Marlene
with him back to America.
After months of deliberation, Spector decided to adopt the costumed identity
of the Moon Knight in order to use his acquired wealth and resources to wage
war against criminals and terrorists. Frenchie became Spector's pilot,
confidant, and special agent. Marlene became Spector's confidant and
paramour.
Learning of the underworld connections of a group of businessmen called the
Committee, Spector sent Frenchie to infiltrate the group. When the Committee
became interested in using Jack Russell, the local werewolf, as an agent of
terror, Frenchie recommended Spector for the job of capturing the beast.
Frenchie provided the Committee with Spector's Moon Knight costume,
pretending to have created the identity for the job. Spector, as Moon
Knight, found Russell and took him to the Committee, but then set him free,
halting the Committee's operations.
Shortly thereafter, Spector adopted the identity of millionaire Steven
Grant. He bought a mansion on Long Island for use as his base of operations
in his war against crime. Seeking to travel incognito, Spector also adopted
the identity of cab driver Jake Lockley. As Lockley, he assembled a network
of street informants and aides, including Bertram Crawley, and Ray and Rick
Johnson.
The Moon Knight led a successful crimefighting career in the New York area,
battling such foes as the Midnight Man, Morpheus, the Jester, and the Black
Spectre. He also vanquished his old enemy Bushman in battle. However, the
strain of maintaining four separate identities began to take its toll.
Finally, at Marlene's behest, he retired all of his false identities, even
the identity of Moon Knight, so that he could concentrate on his true
identity of Marc Spector. He legally transferred ownership of his mansion
from Grant to Spector, and then became a world-traveling dealer of fine art.
Symbols of his abandonment of his Moon Knight persona included his putting
the statue of Khonshu, which he had acquired long ago, onto the auction
block.
A few weeks later, Spector began having vivid dreams that Khonshu was
summoning him. These proving to be irresistible, he boarded a flight to
Egypt to investigate their significance. Three priests of Khonshu told him
that being Moon Knight was his destiny. Not able to help himself, he donned
the new Moon Knight costume they had for him and accepted their new weapons.
The priests, who claimed to be unable to leave the tomb, assigned him the
task of returning to them the statue of Khonshu which he had sold. In the
process, he encountered his counterpart, the champion of Anubis, the
jackal-headed death god, and defeated him. Since returning the statue to
them, he acted as the agent of the priests of Khonshu, traveling the world
at their bidding to battle the forces of evil.
At the priests' behalf and on mental promptings by Khonshu himself, Moon
Knight contacted the West Coast branch of the hero team Avengers, as some of
their members were trapped in the past in ancient Egypt. Moon Knight
accompanied the Avengers to rescue their number and defeat the enemy which
trapped them there, the world-dominating computer Dominus. Moon Knight
accepted membership within the Avengers, and even though he shared many
adventures with them, he also followed his own direction, such as tracking
down the villain Taurus and allowing the villain to fall to his death.
About this time, the Avengers were embroiled in a controversy about killing
villains, and Moon Knight left the Avengers with Mockingbird and Tigra. The
three tried to form their own crimefighting team, and even halted the forces
of the evil geneticist the High Evolutionary. Then, with the help of occult
experts Hellstorm and Hellcat, the threesome tried to exorcise the ghost of
the Phantom Rider that was haunting Mockingbird and discovered that Moon
Knight was bodily possessed by the spirit of Khonshu. Khonshu had inhabited
the body of Marc Spector prior to his joining the Avengers, in order to, as
it claimed, experience the human life more intimately and the superhero life
in particular. As most of Moon Knight's recent decisions were actually the
result of Khonshu's spirit, Spector quit the Avengers, and later disavowed
any association with them, past and future.
After a brief crisis in faith with his deity, Spector resumed his
crimefighting career as Moon Knight.
Jess Nevins
Terence Chua wrote:
> In article <53022f70.02060...@posting.google.com>,
> doctorb...@hotmail.com (Electro-Viper) wrote:
>
> >Oh, my gosh! Look! I was smart enough to do exactly what you
> >suggested, BEFORE you suggested it, and it still didn't really get me
> >anywhere!
> >
> >Sorry to sound so annoyed about it, but it's really sort of demeaning
> >to be told to take the most OBVIOUS ROUTES IMAGINABLE, when you've
> >already done exactly that.
> >
> >e-v
>
> Well, that's going to tell you his current status, isn't it, his last
> known appearance? That's a start. What you want is a single source that
> tells you everything about the character and that may not exist. Get
> what you can, thank people for trying to help and put the pieces
> together yourself instead of being snarky about it and assuming everyone
> has the time or the obligation to do this.
>
> A search on Google for the terms +"moon knight" +"background" will give
> you enough hits to be able to lead you to the rest of the information
> you may need - depending on how much detail you want. The only way to
> get all the information would then be to track down the individual
> appearances yourself. Yes, I've checked on Google. No, I'm not telling
> you what I've found because of your attitude - you can do that yourself.
> It's called research.
He seems to want other people to do it for him....
jess