MOON KNIGHT EPIC COLLECTION: BAD MOON RISING [NEW PRINTING]

I read of moon knight but this is my first time actually reading his comics. It was interesting to see the change of art but the character Moon Knight never really changed but I loved all of it.

If you are interested in following the creation and execution of Marc Spector, The Moon Knight, then this is perfect for you.Marvel usually takes a very long time to publish the Epic Collection series, dropping volumes in quite random orders. New Mutants already have volume 6, but are putting out 2 sometime this summer (July/August 2019). However, that is not the case with Moon Knight. All three Epic Collection volumes are out.The book is a great read and collects all of Moon Knight. The character first appeared in "Werewolf by Night," issue 32. After that, there are a few stories in other series. All of this is collected here, giving the full look at a great character.I bought this book and the following 2 volumes when they were on sale, but they are worth the full price.

My husband wanted this, and seems delighted with it. It arrived well-packaged and in perfect condition.

I have dipped my toe into Moon Knight's adventures over the past few decades but have never really stayed invested for long. I like the character. I like the look. The problem is at first glance, he comes off as a third rate street-level vigilante in a crowded market of street-level vigilantes.He's often called Marvel's Batman. There are some similarities but, honestly, the two characters only have some surface details that match up and then everything else is completely different.Moon Knight starts off his comics career as a guest star in Werewolf by Night. Writer Doug Moench has some fairly snappy dialogue in here that keeps the story moving. It's a solid first appearance and leads to a try-out adventure in Marvel Spotlight where most of Moon Knight's world is filled in.And this is where everything gets super messy. Moon Knight was introduced as the mercenary-for-hire, Marc Spector but this book reveals that while Spector is his ACTUAL identity, he's also running around as the ultra rich Steven Grant and cab driver Jake Lockley. From the start, this situation is NOT working. He's not able to handle that many JOBS and is rushing from one to the other as people in his life complain about him not being there. Add in on that the fact that he isn't very good at keeping his secret life private and you can see the cracks in the facade right away. As time goes on, it's apparent that the bad guys pretty much know at least two of his secret identities at any given time. His time as a cabbie is particularly unconvincing to the people in that sphere of his life and by the end of the book he has come clean to them about what he's been doing.But... the question remains: what IS he doing?The seeds to the modern take on the character where he is actually struggling with dissociative identity disorder is actually laid out more solidly than I originally understood. When I first read these issues back when they were printed in black-and-white Essential format, it appeared to be a game Marc was playing, badly, to fuel his life as Moon Knight. This time, however, I see that he has imbued different traits of his personality into each of his "roles" and there are times that he can't tell which version is the real "him." This new revelation (for me) made the character work so much better. Marc Spector is not planned this out at ALL and his life is basically one step away from calamity and THAT is the story. He's barely holding it together. The only thing keeping him from breaking are the people he has in his life.And it is a wacky group. From girlfriend Marlene (who has a weird past with Marc) to his extremely French pilot/ best friend "Frenchie" to his poor gentleman informant Crawley... the cast is all over the place. Everything is all over the place. This book is just chaos barely keeping itself together.For example, once we get past the Spotlight appearance, Moon Knight guest stars in a bunch of books, including a prominent appearance in Defenders (the story is pretty terrible but the Keith Giffen art is interesting) and after that he gets another solo story that ran as a back-up in the pages of Hulk! magazine. This story is just all over the place. It's a continuing narrative mystery where by the end you'll wonder how all the pieces actually connected to get us all the way from a street murderer to a wolf-like swordsman calling all the shots in a terrorist scheme... but it's just so messy.The saving grace for that mess is the introduction of super-star artist Bill Sienkiewicz working on his premiere Marvel comics. Sienkiewicz starts off running with fantastic Neal Adams inspired art. The colors on these magazine issues are a step or three ahead of what you'd find on your typical comic book as well so the whole thing is a visual treat even when the story isn't making much sense.The stories stay messy but, just as Marc Spector is getting a better handle on all his lives and keeping all those plates spinning, the adventures also start getting better. By the time Moon Knight launches into his solo title, this book is absolutely solid. We only get four issues of the solo book here but it goes further into Marc's origin story and lightly retcons aspects of his first appearance.The tone on all of this is dark and pulpy. This is a hero who is helping people on the very bottom of society, dealing with murder, gang violence, and other things that go bump in the night. It isn't as light as your typical Daredevil story of the times was. This was about society falling apart and one man's journey to deliver vengeance upon the villains of the world. And he brought all his friends along to help because Moon Knight is a team. And he gets a weird helicopter, a glider cape, and a truncheon that eventually turns into a nunchaku. Like you do.Pretty much everything about modern Moon Knight is in these adventures. They are super messy. The plots are all over the place. The art is beautiful. The world is dark. There are monsters out there. There are too many people in one body. Moon Knight is a great looking visual. There's a lack of any villain with staying power and no real rogue's gallery because most of the bad guys are killed by the story's end. But Moon Knight keeps going, protecting the travelers of the night with a lot of help from his friends.Anyway, give it a try.

I have been meaning to try Marvel Comics' new Epic Collection format, and I finally saw one at a decent price on Amazon, so I picked this one up to see how it compared to both the Essentials and the Masterworks series. The Epic Collections are definitely better than the Essentials, and are on a par with the Masterworks in terms of production values and the amount of material included, at least in this one, featuring Moon Knight.I had been a fan of the character when it was created in the pages of Werewolf By Night, and subscribed to his first series for a year or so, before moving on to other things; I think it was the parody in Cerebus (Moon Roach) that caused me to drop MK and start reading Cerebus regularly instead. The issues reprinted in this volume are handled quite well, feature all of MK's early appearances around the Marvel Universe and the first four issues of his original series. Great reproduction, color, and a massive amount of good comic book reading!

I knew nothing of Moon Knight before I had this epic discussion concerning Moon Knight being the "more of Marvel's answer to Batman over Daredevil" I was then introduced to him in a Black Panther anthology, and I could quickly see his charm, and I wanted to start from the top. The writing is just off the hook. It has the flavor of a TV series rather than a typical comic. And while the character is indeed a Batman clone of sorts, his character is vastly more eccentric and bratty. For starters he doesn't have just one secret identity, but three, and later stories to be reported as having a dissociative disorder, and suffers delusions as to his role as to WHY he's the Moon Knight. He's a lot more fun, and funny than Batman (well...the Dark knight version that is. Early Batman and Robin comics were a hoot). He banters and riffs in a similar means to Spiderman and Deadpool. In short I hope there's a Netflix series soon (not a movie. He's too complex and awesome to try and truncate in a mere movie.) Anyway, this anthology is worth every dime. He's officially in my top five favorite Marvel Heroes and I plan on collecting all the anthologies.

I've loved the Moon Knight character since I first encountered him way back in 1976. A lot of people compare him to Batman, but he's really a laid-back version of The Shadow. Moon Knight of the 70s was a cool, confident crime-fighter with an awesome costume. This book features ALL his early appearances and guest-appearances, plus the first four issues of his own 1980 mag. Most of it is written by Doug Moench who never lets a reader down, and the art is by such cool illustrators as Don Perlin, Keith Giffen, Mike Zeck, Gene Colan, and Bill Sienkiewicz. It's pretty cool to watch a character grow and change from a simple hero/villain/guest-star to a well-rounded, top-tier lead feature, and that's what Bad Moon Rising delivers!

Es lamentable que libros que valen más de 40 dólares los manden en bolsas donde no tienen protección alguna. Así se dañan los libros y pueden su valor en el Mercado.

It was a CHristmas present for one of my kids, he was delighted.

I knew little of Moon Knight, he seldom made many guest appearances in the Marvel comics I bought regularly so I thought I’d try out volume 1 of his epic collection. I really enjoyed the latter issues of his own run, and I’ve always liked Bill Sienkiewicz’s art although it is quite different in style to his New Mutants and Elektra Assassin work. I’m now tempted to try volume 2!

great stories of the moon knight. only thing wrong : the quality of the paperback is very cheap. great for fans anyway

Great condition. Basically brand new other than a black marker spot on the top. I have no issues with that!