Moon Knight Epic Collection: The Resurrection War

As one phase ends, a new one begins — you can’t keep Moon Knight down for long!

Moon Knight is caught in the middle when Marc Spector’s mansion becomes the battleground for a showdown between his old sparring partner Werewolf by Night and the X-Man named Gambit! But what are Jack Russell and Remy LeBeau doing there? And what unwelcome news does one of them have to share? As Moon Knight becomes embroiled in cosmic chaos, he’s tasked with taking down the Amazing Spider-Man! But soon Marc will be put through hell, and it may cost him the life of one of the people he holds most dear — and eventually even his own! Then legendary writer Doug Moench returns to the character he co-created! And the mystery of Moon Knight’s resurrection will lead him into confrontations with old adversaries Stained-Glass Scarlet and the Black Spectre! Also featuring a conflict of godly avatars with the Black Panther! 

COLLECTING: Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) #52-60, Moon Knight (1998) #1-4, Moon Knight (1999) #1-4, Black Panther (1998) #20-22

Written by Terry Kavanagh, Doug Moench & Christopher Priest

Penciled by James Fry, Stephen Platt, Fred Haynes, Tommy Lee Edwards, John Paul Leon, Mark Texeira & Sal Velluto

After early assignments on Kickers Inc. and Cloak and Dagger, Terry Kavanagh wrote Web of Spider-Man for years — spinning a hero he introduced in those pages, Nightwatch, into his own title. In addition to runs on Marc Spector: Moon Knight, X-Man and various mutant titles, he wrote Avengers, Iron Man and several tie-in one-shots during the controversial “Crossing” storyline. His miniseries work includes Before the Fantastic Four: The Storms, Fury/Agent 13, Black Cat and Rise of Apocalypse. He teamed Marvel heroes with UItraverse heroes in Exiles vs. X-Men and Ultraforce/Avengers Prelude.

In addition to runs on Fantastic Four and Thor, original Moon Knight scribe Doug Moench specialized in writing features outside the Marvel mainstream — including Adventure into Fear’s Morbius, Frankenstein, Inhumans, Ka-Zar: Lord of the Hidden Jungle, Master of Kung Fu, Werewolf by Night and Astonishing Tales’ Deathlok. Proving his eclectic abilities, he also wrote the full run of Godzilla, most of Shogun Warriors and stories for virtually every Marvel black-and-white magazine of the 1970s. He expanded on his Star-Lord and Weirdworld sagas in multiple anthology titles. At DC, he wrote memorable runs on Batman, Detective Comics and Legends of the Dark Knight — along with numerous Batman one-shots, cross-company crossovers and Elseworlds sagas. He further contributed such short-lived but unique series as Electric Warrior, Lords of the Ultra-Realm, Slash Maraud, Wanderers and Xenobrood.

Versatile artist James Fry proved himself equally at home illustrating the grim-and-gritty ’90s vigilantism of Moon Knight and Nomad as he was the cartoonish adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog — so it’s little wonder he was chosen to depict a character that combines the two extremes, in Marvel’s Slapstick limited series.

Stephen Platt’s work bringing the Marc Spector: Moon Knight series to a close helped propel him to stardom in the artist-fueled comics boom of the 1990s. Platt rode the wave of success to Image Comics, illustrating Rob Liefeld’s Prophet series and his creator-owned series Soul Saga. He went on to become a sought-after concept artist, working on film projects including Blade: Trinity and Marvel Studios’ Iron Man.