Marvel Comics has given CBR an exclusive preview and solicitation for Moon Knight #1 by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio.
Spinning out of the "Age of Khonshu" storyline in Avengers, the book finds Marc Spector forming a "Midnight Mission" -- a halfway house of sorts for wayward travelers in the night. The preview pages show Spector descending upon a group of criminals who have kidnapped a young man, and doling out his unique form of punishment.
MOON KNIGHT #1
- JED MACKAY (W) • ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO (A) • Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
- VARIANT COVER BY JOHN ROMITA JR.
- VARIANT COVER BY E.M. GIST
- VARIANT COVER BY KYLE HOTZ
- VARIANT COVER BY GERARDO ZAFFINO
- VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
- VARIANT COVER BY ELIZABETH TORQUE
- HIDDEN GEM VARIANT BY BILL SIENKIEWICZ
- VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY JOHN ROMITA, JR.
- HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK
- CAPTAIN AMERICA 80TH VARIANT COVER BY TBA
- VARIANT COVER BY JEFFREY VEREGGE
- I AM MOON KNIGHT!
- The mysterious Mr. Knight has opened his Midnight Mission, his people petitioning for protection from the weird and horrible. The Moon Knight stalks the rooftops and alleys marked with his crescent moon tag, bringing violence to any who would harm his people. Marc Spector, in whichever guise he dons, is back on the streets, a renegade priest of an unworthy god. But while Khonshu languishes in a prison that Moon Knight put him in, Moon Knight must still observe his duty: protecting those who travel at night.
- Let it be known – Moon Knight will keep the faith.
- 40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
"I think that a core aspect of Moon Knight is that he's a misfit, an outsider. He's never really seemed to fit in the Marvel Universe in the same way that other costumed heroes have, and I think that distance makes him interesting," MacKay told CBR. "No one seems to like Moon Knight very much, and no one seems to trust him (sometimes with good reason) but despite that, he keeps trying to get out there and do what he thinks is right."
MacKay also discussed how Spector will deal with his dissociative identity disorder and operating without Khonshu, who he locked away at the end of "Age of Khonshu." "At the point we catch up with Moon Knight, he's striking out on his own, and trying to find out exactly what it means to be the Fist of Khonshu without, well, Khonshu," said MacKay. "Apostate, heretic, renegade, whatever you want to call him, Marc Spector is still Moon Knight, and he's back on the streets, protecting those who travel at night."
Written by Jed MacKay and illustrated by Alessandro Cappuccio with a cover by Steve McNiven, Moon Knight #1 goes on sale on July 7 from Marvel.