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Moon Knight 1 |
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Moon Knight 1 Signature |
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CGC |
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1003017002
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Owner Comments
"The Macabre Moon Knight!"
Mercenary Raoul Bushman and his lieutenant Marc Spector lead a raid on a rebel camp in Sudan. Jean-Paul "Frenchie" du Champ arrives in a helicopter and tells Spector that he has looked through Bushman's secret papers. The information confirms their resolve to quit working for Bushman. Frenchie also has their new orders: attack the village of Selima. Spector points out that there is no rebel activity there. Bushman has learned that an archaeologist has found a tomb there, so they are going to loot it.
That night the mercenaries ride into Selima. Dr. Peter Alraune, the archaeologist, knows of Bushman and realizes why he's there. Taking up a dagger found in the tomb, he strides directly toward Bushman's back. Spector warns Bushman and disarms Alraune. He watches Bushman kill Alraune with his steel teeth. Before he dies, Alraune tells Spector where to find his daughter. While Bushman admires the dagger, Spector goes after Alraune's daughter, Marlene.
Spector tells Marlene that her father is dead. She recognizes that he is a mercenary and blames him. He says, "Yeah ... I killed him! And I'll kill you unless you get out fast, woman!" She gets in a jeep and leaves.
Later, Spector finds Frenchie and tells him that they must follow Marlene, but he sees Bushman order the execution of innocent villagers. He has finally had enough: he attacks Bushman, who drops him with one punch and tells an underling to "take him out in the desert and dump him! Let the sun, the heat he despises so, slay him!"
Spector wakes at dawn in the desert, with no shelter and no water. He walks all day. At night a storm comes up. Two Arabs spot him silhouetted against the moon, notify Marlene, carry him into the tomb of Pharaoh Seti, and lay him out. She recognizes him: "he deserves to be dead!" And as far as Jallad can tell, he is dead.
arise, Moon Knight!
Marlene, with a moment to think, realizes that Spector probably saved her life and has now paid for that mercy with his own life. Suddenly, though, Spector sits up! He's not sure who he is, but he knows the idol in front of him: Khonshu, a god of the moon, "the Taker of Vengeance, a figure of terror." He puts on the idol's cloak. He drives Marlene's jeep into Selima. He knifes two of Bushman's men and takes their grenades.
Bushman and his men are celebrating their victory in the town square. Two trucks explode near the ammo dump. When the men investigate, the dump itself explodes. Only Bushman remains. Spector confronts him. He hears a scream behind him; Marlene followed him, and Frenchie caught her. When Spector turns around, Bushman has vanished.
Marlene learns that Bushman, not Spector, killed her father. Then Spector collapses.
In the present, Spector finishes dictating into a tape recorder. He tells Marlene that Bushman is active in New York: "Had a weird feeling about this ... like I should tape Bushman's story before I left." He also tells her to stay behind. Spector, as Jake Lockley, goes to the diner. He asks an informant, Bertrand Crawley, about a death's-head medallion found during a heroin bust. It's the symbol of a new gang, Crawley tells him, run by someone named Bushman. He "operates out in the open ... almost as if he wants to be found." His base is near 99th and Amsterdam in Harlem. Frenchie, in the new helicopter, picks him up and takes him to meet Bushman. Spector fails to notice a Mercedes following him.
Moon Knight walks into the nightclub, with no attempt at subterfuge: "Tell your boss I'm about to walk into his trap." In the upstairs office, he handles a few thugs. A door swings open. On the desk inside he finds the dagger from Seti's tomb. Another door opens to reveal Bushman. Outside, the Mercedes pulls up and Marlene gets out; she wants revenge on Bushman as much as Spector does. She walks into the office. Bushman fires at Spector and misses. He fires at Marlene and hits! He knocks Spector down. Spector blocks Bushman's teeth with his truncheon and begins to beat him.
Marlene regains consciousness. She convinces Spector to stop before he kills Bushman: "I didn't want Bushman to spoil what he started ... what you've made into a legend." They hear sirens and leave in the helicopter. The police walk in and find a silver crescent in the windowsill, casting its shadow across Bushman.
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 2 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 2 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0959288072
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Owner Comments
"By Shakespeare's silent muse, Jake. We knew you were more than a cabbie, but we never suspected this!"
-- Crawley
"The Slasher"
A man wanders down a dark Bowery street. He asks a bum sitting on a stoop if he has "it" and if he was in Trenton twenty years ago. The bum answers no. The man calls him a liar and murders him with a sickle.
Nearby Moon Knight is looking for the "Skid-Row Slasher." Instead he finds a mugging in progress, which gives him a chance to try out his new nunchaku truncheon. He gives the victim some advice and sails away on his helicopter's ladder. As Lockley he visits Gena's diner at daybreak. Crawley bursts in and says that the slasher killed his best friend, Reno Eddie. Lockley tells him to get inside by dark.
Crawley spends the day wandering the streets and mourning Eddie. When he returns to his flophouse, the landlord tells him the lock's been changed because he's three months behind on his rent. He wanders again in darkness. He meets Jeremiah, who already has three roommates and won't let Crawley stay at his place.
Turning away, Crawley stumbles over a body. He runs into an alley. A man follows him, calls him a liar, and raises a sickle ....
Steven Grant and Marlene prepare for a fancy dinner. He hopes to get some information about the slasher from a newspaper publisher.
Gena is closing up her diner when Crawley stumbles in and collapses. She takes him to a hospital, where he's treated for cuts on his forearms. Crawley thinks he knows the slasher. Gena becomes indignant when two policemen don't seem interested in following the lead. One says, "No one cares about bums. If anyone did, they wouldn't be bums." He suggests she hire a private detective.
Gena sends her two sons, Ray and Ricky, to find Lockley. They trail him to Grant's mansion. Grant/Lockley says, "Into the house, men. Time to invite your mama and Crawley over for tea." He reveals his Moon Knight identity to them and offers to put them all on his payroll as informal detectives. Gena is too busy running her diner, but her sons can work "strictly freelance, after school, cash only for services rendered, and only if it ain't dangerous."
Crawley confesses that he had a job once, selling textbooks. He started drinking. His sales dropped. His wife had a son. Bills piled up. He kept on drinking, and his wife left him. A few more rungs down the ladder put him in the Bowery, where he's been every since. Now, working for Grant, he will only act like a bum.
A week passes. Crawley leaves a friend snoozing on a stoop. A man approaches the friend, who is Moon Knight in disguise, but he only wants change. Moon Knight hears a yell from around the corner. Crawley interrupted the slasher, who flees down the alley. Moon Knight easily catches him. The police take the slasher into custody.
Crawley goes home. Having seen the slasher's face again, he remembers where they met before. At the trial, he recants the testimony he gave the police because the slasher is his son. Jimmy Crawley yells that his mother died because of Crawley and attacks him. When the police pull him away, he grabs a gun, shoots one of them, and flees through the rear door. Grant follows, changing to Moon Knight. Jimmy tries to escape across the rooftops. Moon Knight trips him with his truncheon and disarms him with a crescent dart. Jimmy says, "He took the love away ... but I found it!" He backs away ... and falls off the roof.
Moon Knight glides down to the alley, where Crawley and Gena find Jimmy's body, and tries to apologize. "It wasn't your fault," says Crawley, "it was mine ... all mine ... and I let it get away ... let it slip away ... into the gutter."
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 3 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 3 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017006
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Owner Comments
"Greed is the purest motivation—the others tend to get sticky with complications."
-- Anton Mogart
"Midnight Means Murder"
Moon Knight captures a mugger, an arsonist, and a sniper on three successive nights. On each of those same nights, exactly at midnight, a costumed figure steals a valuable item. The same criminal has written several letters to the newspapers taunting Moon Knight and signed himself "Midnight Man." The next morning, Lockley heads to Gena's diner for information. Crawley takes him to a pool hall. Lockley asks about fences, gets no response, and offers to meet in the alley "if anyone has a memory attack." Crawley assures them that Lockley pays well, so they plan to mug him. Instead of a cabbie, though, they find Moon Knight, who learns that Midnight Man plans to set a trap for him that night.
That evening Steven Grant hosts a fund-raiser at his mansion. An art collector named Anton Mogart asks Grant for a favor. Midnight Man threatened to steal his paintings, so he wants Grants to have his mercenary friend Marc Spector protect them. Grant agrees. When he sees that Mogart has left the party, he changes to Moon Knight and has Frenchie fly him to Mogart's mansion in New Jersey. After jimmying a window with a crescent dart, he hits a tripwire and narrowly avoids the crossbow bolt it activates. Midnight Man steps from the shadows. He says that he wants to eliminate Moon Knight as the only threat to his operation, and he raises a pistol.
Moon Knight uses his truncheon to douse the lights. In the dark he easily disarms Midnight Man and unmasks him as Mogart. Their fight spills out onto the roof of the gabled mansion. Suddenly Marlene arrives and shoots Mogart, who slips on a shard of glass and falls into the river. Grant takes one of Mogart's paintings, the fee they agreed upon for Spector's services. Later, Grant and Marlene visit a museum, where she recognizes the painting. Beside it a sign reads, "Donated by Marc Spector." Grant says that Mogart's greed made him reconsider his own passion for collecting. In place of the painting he has hung Midnight Man's cloak, as a reminder that he will probably return for it. Marlene agrees and confesses that, to avoid shooting Moon Knight accidentally, she used a rubber bullet.
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 4 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 4 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0966842006
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Owner Comments
"Something tells me, Ice, you ain't too cool without your heat."
-- Moon Knight (Marc Spector - holding Ice's rifle)
"A Committee of 5"
Moon Knight glides down to the skating rink at Rockefeller Center. Ice, a professional hitman, shoots at him. Luckily, the bullet only goes through Moon Knight's cloak. He tries to apprehend Ice, whose rifle accidentally goes off and blinds him, allowing the hitman to escape.
Near dawn, in a dockside warehouse in Lower Manhattan, the revitalized Committee meets with five assassins, Ice among them. The new leader explains to an associate, Reuben (who has been out of the country), that they paid Moon Knight to do a job and he betrayed them. Killing Moon Knight is a matter of honor as well as a warning to others.
At Steven Grant's mansion, Frenchie tells Grant that he still attends meetings of the Committee to keep tabs on them. He brings Marlene up to speed: early in Moon Knight's career, they became aware of the Committee and their nefarious ways. Frenchie infiltrated the group. Learning that they wanted to capture a werewolf, he suggested they hire Marc Spector and even gave them a costume—Moon Knight's—to hide his identity.
As Jake Lockley, Moon Knight visits Gena Landers's diner. Crawley knows there are five hitmen visiting town. He only knows the names Dragon, Ice, and Razor, but all five frequent a nightclub in Queens called Inn Flight. Lockley asks Ricky and Ray Landers to visit the club and get the other two names. He calls Marlene and asks her to have Frenchie attend that night's Committee meeting and to "practice your bump and grind."
At the Inn Flight, Ricky and Ray ask a bartender about Dragon, Ice, and Razor's friends. They get sent to the back, where a hood pulls a gun on them for asking "nosy questions about Ice." Ray distracts him and Ricky gets his gun. The hood gives up the other names: Boom-Boom and Bull. Outside they meet Marlene, who has come to audition for a job as an exotic dancer. At the diner, they give Lockley the names.
Later, Moon Knight is on patrol when a lit pack of firecrackers flies out of an alley. Investigating, he luckily finds a cat tearing open a package containing dynamite. With that much warning, he flees (with the cat) and survives the blast. Boom-Boom escapes.
The next night, Crawley calls with news that Dragon and Razor have gone to the fights. Grant gets tickets for himself and Frenchie. At the Garden, Frenchie IDs the hitmen, and Moon Knight follows them to a rundown building, where they and Bull ambush him. Bull escapes by crashing through a wall, but Moon Knight and Frenchie take the other two to Grant's mansion.
Marlene has let Ice pick her up at the club and take her to his place. Bull calls and tells him that Moon Knight's "got helpers everywhere." Ice, suddenly suspicious, leaves with his rifle. Marlene goes outside to call Lockley, where Ice sees her.
At the Committee warehouse, the remaining hitmen come up with a better plan: they'll never earn their $25,000 fees by killing Moon Knight, so Boom-Boom mines the place, and they'll simply extort the money. Ice has an even better plan: lock everyone inside the warehouse, walk off with the $125,000, watch the warehouse blow up, and pick off any survivors from the neighboring rooftop. At the same time, Moon Knight arrives on the rooftop of the warehouse. Bull realizes he's been had, so he makes his own exit.
The warehouse explodes! Ice fires at Moon Knight, who luckily falls (along with the warehouse's roof) below the bullet's path. Frenchie managed to escape behind Bull; Boom-Boom wasn't so lucky. Bull reaches a speedboat on the beach. Moon Knight follows and leaps from the dock into the boat, with Ice still firing at him. Bull gets in a couple of good shots, takes one of Ice's bullets, grabs at the wheel, and falls on top of Moon Knight. The boat heads back to shore with Moon Knight trapped under Bull's body; luckily, though, he's thrown clear when the boat crashes and explodes.
Atop the building, Ice lines up another shot at the motionless Moon Knight. Marlene appears and fights hand to hand with Ice. Moon Knight drags himself up a ladder, breaks the rifle in half, and knocks out Ice with the stock. For "dessert" at Grant's mansion, Samuels serves up the $125,000: most will go to charity, some to investments for Grant's informants, and the rest for a well-deserved vacation.
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 5 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 5 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0966842007
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Owner Comments
"It ... it's mine—at last—mine! Listen—you guys can have the shoebox—I'll take this!"
-- Edward Redditch
"Ghost Story"
Near the small town of Brambles in upstate New York, two boys approach a large house. Tommy tells his companion that the Red Hunter haunts the place and that he's going inside to find a ghost. A shadow passes over them. Tommy sees a ghostly silver figure floating down to the house, and both boys run away. Moon Knight (the "ghost") has followed John Creach and Frank Parkins to the house. These two small-time crooks have followed their partner, Edward Redditch, to his family home to get his "treasure." In the backyard cemetery, Parkins (another Brambles native) tells Creach that Redditch's father died years ago. According to rumor, Redditch Sr. was responsible for four disappearances, and they stopped when he disappeared too.
Earlier that day, Redditch saw in the paper that his mother had been declared legally dead. After his father's death, he had had to commit her to Bellevue. She left behind a shoebox containing $500,000 and a valise, and Redditch, despite Parkins's warnings, was determined to collect his inheritance.
Parkins and Creach break into the Redditch home. Moon Knight reflects on his day: he told Frenchie that, when he walks past the statue of Khonshu, "I get a chill when I pass the thing ... I could swear I'm in contact with something inside it ... with its ghost, I guess." Moon Knight enters the house. Parkins and Creach encounter a floating white figure and flee from it. Moon Knight follows the shouting and finds the same "ghost": an owl wrapped in a curtain. Earlier, Redditch went to the Municipal Services building for the shoebox and the valise. When a clerk pleaded that she had to take care of her mother, Redditch said, "Shut up about mother!" and shot her. Outside he shot a policeman but was wounded himself. Lockley heard about the incident via police scanner and headed toward the Municipal Services building, but the getaway car sideswiped his cab into a parked car. He called Frenchie to pick him up in the helicopter. Parkins, driving their red Ford, managed to evade the police.
Parkins and Creach find shelves of canned goods in the kitchen. Something moves, and Parkins shoots at it. It's only a cat. Moon Knight hears the shot, sees the food, and realizes someone still inhabits the house. Earlier, the getaway car stopped for gas. Redditch got the valise open. He told the others that they could keep the money, he had his treasure. He got out, carjacked a customer of the gas station, and headed for Brambles. Parkins and Creach followed, wanting their shares of a treasure worth more than a half million in cash.
The two hoods break into Eddie's room. They find four skeletons and a trail of blood, which leads into another room. In that room is another skeleton dressed in hunting gear, with a shotgun on its lap. The shotgun fires, straight at them! They flee. This mystery is explained by strings leading from the shotgun's triggers to a pair of flesh-and-blood hands in a closet. Parkins and Creach find the basement, where Parkins believes they will find the treasure. Moon Knight calls down the stairs, impersonating the police, to convince the crooks to surrender. Parkins believes they can escape punishment if they dispose of the evidence, so they start a fire in the furnace to burn the money. The old furnace explodes, uncovering a trap door in the floor. They crawl through a tunnel and wind up back in the cemetery. A voice says, "Freeze, murderers!" Moon Knight is standing behind them. He drops Creach with his truncheon and throws a dart into Parkins's hand before he can fire the shotgun. Moon Knight kicks Parkins and knocks him out, and his fallen flashlight shows the gravestone of Edward Redditch.
In the grave lies Redditch, his hair turned white. He died, not from the policeman's bullet or his father's shot, but from fright. An old woman in hunting gear appears, carrying a shotgun. "All you can see is the red," she repeats, and says that Redditch died in a hunting accident, that she had to bring him home, that he would always leave again, that Eddie was the same way. "Still don't know why he claimed I was dead." Moon Knight finds Eddie's "treasure": the deed to the house, which is in flames.
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 6 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 6 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017009
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Owner Comments
"I'm not entirely sure who you are—in fact, I'm almost ready to believe you are the White Angel ... well, thanks for settling the score ... Marc."
-- Joshua Mendossi, to Moon Knight
"White Angels"
Moon Knight returns home from a night on patrol. Samuels hands him a telegram that reads, "I'm calling the marker ~ Joshua, St. Lucien." He greets Marlene, changes to Lockley, and goes to Gena's diner. He invites his amateur detectives (Crawley, Ray, and Ricky) to go to St. Lucien with Grant. They, Gena, and Marlene take the next flight.
At the hotel, Grant tells Marlene he's going "sightseeing." She has the telegram and demands his true motive. He confesses that Joshua Mendossi, an old friend of Spector's, needs help. They go to see Mendossi, who is director of police on the island. He has several missing persons cases, and the natives suspect a voodoo priest named le ange blanc—the White Angel of Death. Even worse, the White Angel is turning these people into an army of zombies. Mendossi can't give the cases the attention they deserve because they involve the poor, he doesn't have the manpower, and his primary job is protecting the tourists. He wants Spector to do what he would like to but can't.
Marlene stays behind and asks Mendossi about Spector: "Was he ever really ruthless? A heartless killer?" Mendossi answers, "Yes and no," and tells her about an incident during a rebel uprising in South America. Government forces came upon Spector and his group in a cemetery, and Spector used a grave marker for cover. A soldier tried to catch him in a crossfire, but Mendossi shot the soldier, thus saving Spector's life. Spector promised to return the favor someday.
Spector goes to see Mendossi's sister, who tells him the same thing Mendossi did. She tells him he must leave before dark. Spector changes to Moon Knight. Down the road he finds a man in a skeleton costume herding men into a truck. His truncheon takes care of the skeleton, but the men in the truck think he's the White Angel and refuse to get out. Three more skeletons appear, but Moon Knight makes quick work of them and drags the victims out of the truck. The four skeletons get away in the truck. Spector walks back to his hotel. He complains to Marlene that he's gradually lost the extra strength that moonlight used to give him, although he calls it the "werewolf virus."
Grant gives Ricky and Ray a transmitter and asks them to pose as bait for the skeletons. Frenchie and Crawley, doing their own reconnaissance, find a poppy field on a plantation owned by Norman Vidal. A group of skeletons finds them.
Ricky and Ray encounter skeletons loading a truck with victims and sneak aboard. After an hour's ride, they emerge in a clearing, where Frenchie and Crawley hang from a tree. The White Angel (a white man) tells the new arrivals that they will become zombies and must kill the prisoners to prove their loyalty. When he prepares to give Ray an injection, Ray radios Moon Knight and manages to give a location before someone breaks the transmitter. Spector, driving in the area, realizes they're at Vidal's plantation and tells Marlene to send Mendossi.
Moon Knight glides in across the bonfire just as the new zombies charge at Ricky and Ray with spears. A skeleton exclaims, "Papa Doc! It is the real White Angel!" Vidal confesses that the "zombies" are slave labor for the poppy fields. The skeletons go after Moon Knight. Ricky and Ray try to rouse the zombies, then get loose and free Frenchie and Crawley. The police arrive.
Vidal flees to his house for guns. Moon Knight and Mendossi follow. Mendossi gets trapped behind a column in the barn, and Vidal is circling behind him to get a clear shot. One of Moon Knight's darts knocks the gun out of his hand; Mendossi turns and fires; Vidal falls against the bullet-riddled column, which breaks. The floor above, packed with bags of heroin, collapses, burying Vidal.
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 7 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 7 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017012
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Owner Comments
"The Moon Kings"
Jake Lockley finishes putting on a moustache to complete his disguise. Crawley runs into the street ahead of his cab. He says that a friend, Redshirt, has come from Chicago with a warning that that city will be destroyed at the next full moon—the next night. At Gena's diner, Lockley tells Gena he won't need Ricky and Ray's help: "this'll be a small operation."
The next night, a gang breaks into the Municipal Water Works in Chicago and pours the contents of a 55-gallon drum into the reservoir. One of the gang, Fox, shoots Ernie, who told Redshirt about their plans. The leader, Simon, protests. The next day, people all over Chicago drink tap water without thinking. A woman on a sidewalk screams and attacks the nearest person, biting his lip.
Lockley goes to Steven Grant's mansion. Marlene says, "You know, Steven, sometimes you're so crazy you don't even know who you are, and one of these nights you're going to drive me crazy too." She, Frenchie, and Crawley get into Moon Knight's helicopter and head west. They hear a news report about the spreading madness and see flames downtown. Marlene and Crawley disembark at their hotel, she to establish a command post, he to gather intelligence.
Frenchie poses as a reporter and tries to interview a police lieutenant. The governor has ordered up the National Guard, and everyone should stay home—that's all he learns. On his way out he drinks from a water fountain. Hanging from a ladder under the helicopter Frenchie is piloting, Moon Knight deduces that the madness comes from the water and tells Frenchie to tell Marlene not to drink it. Frenchie screams. Moon Knight glides down to a marina and watches his helicopter crash into Lake Michigan. He dives in to rescue Frenchie, who attacks him. He ties up Frenchie and leaves him on a boat. The gang prepares to move into City Hall.
Moon Knight races to find a phone. A hungry Marlene draws a glass of water. Her phone rings—it's Moon Knight, trying to warn her. The hotel operator screams, and the connection dies. Marlene drinks. Moon Knight cuts across Grant Park to get to the hotel, but he encounters a mob. Simon, in a werewolf costume in Daley Plaza, goes on television to tell the mob around him to destroy the city. He asks for $25 million, to be dropped onto the roof of City Hall, as extortion to keep him from putting poison in the water supply. Moon Knight, having beaten the mob, sees him on a television in a shop window and goes to the plaza. He chases Simon into a subway station, where Simon throws a gas bomb.
Moon Knight sees a NO SMOKING sign. Under the hallucinogenic spell of the gas, he watches the letters rearrange themselves to say MOON KINGS. Suddenly he is on the moon, and the Moon Kings (the rioters) are after him. They drag him into a tunnel (the subway), where a monster (a train) rushes at him ....
In the hotel room, Marlene brandishes a knife and says, "I want you, Steven ... because you've made me just like you now ... You've made me so crazy I don't know who I am ... and you're going to pay, Steven ...."
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 9 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 9 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017014
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Owner Comments
"I believe you called me 'refreshingly psychotic.' Now, however, only the latter half of the description applies."
-- Anton Mogart, the Midnight Man
"Vengeance in Reprise"
In a gathering storm, Moon Knight watches a tall building from a nearby rooftop. The Daily News says that Bushman has escaped from a maximum security pen. Moon Knight glides across the street and crashes through a window, into an underworld casino.
At Steven Grant's mansion, Marlene Alraune tells Samuels about the statue of Khonshu and the birth of Moon Knight (see issue #1). Does Khonshu's spirit actually inhabit the body of Marc Spector, or does Spector only think so? Only Khonshu knows for sure. Elsewhere in the building, Frenchie works on the new helicopter (the old one crashed into Lake Michigan in issue #7).
Moon Knight pacifies a few goons and asks about Bushman. He notices one goon slipping out a back door and follows the man's Cadillac in Lockley's cab.
Awakened by thunder, Marlene sees a man in a mask. She screams, which brings Frenchie. The masked man knocks down Frenchie and escapes. Marlene and Frenchie see that the statue of Khonshu is missing, and Nedda says that Samuels is missing.
Lockley finds the Cadillac parked beside an open manhole off 34th Street. He calls Marlene to update her; she doesn't tell him about the statue. He spends an hour searching the tunnels, with the water rising, before hearing a noise. It came from a very high room, strung with rope like a spiderweb. He begins to climb.
Marlene realizes that the intruder might have wanted the statue for its artistic value. She goes to the mansion's gallery. Anton Mogart's opera cape is also missing, so the thief was Midnight Man (introduced in issue #3). They head for 34th Street.
Mogart swings down and knocks Moon Knight into the web. He says that, after he survived his fall into the river, he drifted under a drain that poured chemical waste on his face. He hid in the sewers for three days. When he returned to his mansion, the police had confiscated his art collection. To add injury to insult, the chemicals had burned his face. To get revenge, he stole the statue of Khonshu. Now he pushes it off a high platform. Horrified, Moon Knight sees it smash to bits.
Mogart begins shooting at him. Driven by instinct, he leaps and swings, dodging the shots, until he captures Mogart and demands to know where Samuels is. Bushman appears on a higher platform with Samuels and the goon that led Moon Knight here. He pushes a plunger, blowing a hole in the wall. Stormwater begins to fill the chamber ....
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 10 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 10 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017015
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Owner Comments
"You are someone! You're exactly what you've chosen to be—a strong man determined to make up for the evil you once did. You're not Lockley or Grant or even Moon Knight—they're just your tools ... names and identities you use to accomplish your goal."
-- Marlene Alraune
"Too Many Midnights"
Bushman, Moon Knight's nemesis, has trapped him in a chamber rapidly filling with stormwater. The Midnight Man, who lured Moon Knight into this trap, and Samuels, Steven Grant's butler, also face drowning. Even worse, the Midnight Man has just shattered the statue of Khonshu that, Moon Knight believes, gave him his powers (see issue #1).
On the street above, Marlene Alraune and Frenchie find Lockley's cab and the open manhole that led Moon Knight into the trap. Back in the chamber, Samuels and Midnight Man plead with Moon Knight to find a way out. He shakes off his lethargy and uses one of his darts to start prying a brick out of the wall. By the time he loosens the brick, the water has risen over his head—the rush of water through the new opening almost takes him with it. He barely makes it back to the surface. Midnight Man plunges in to escape through the hole. Moon Knight cuts the rope holding Samuels just as the wall around the inlet collapses. The current pulls Samuels into the sewers. Moon Knight retrieves the statue's head and follows; his cloak catches on a brick and is lost. They wind up in the river.
On a riverbank, Moon Knight pulls off his mask and tells Samuels, "I'm nothing ... everything to everyone, but nothing to myself." He wanders away, clutching the head of Khonshu. Samuels returns to Grant's mansion. Marlene calls Gena Landers, who sets Crawley and her sons to work looking for Lockley. Frenchie uses the new helicopter to search the city. Even Samuels joins the hunt. After three days, though, no one can find him. In Moon Knight's absence, Bushman begins a crime wave.
Finally, Gena and Crawley find Moon Knight in Central Park, where he grieves for his brother Randall, who (he believes) died nearby. They take him to Grant's mansion, where Marlene tries to pull him out of his despondency. "I jeered the moon once too often, lady, bluffed my way through too many midnights," he says. Marlene shows him another statue of Khonshu and says that the one Midnight Man broke was a copy—this one is the original. "You did it all to yourself," she tells him.
Five days later, Crawley learns that Bushman and his lieutenants will hold a meeting at a house in Brooklyn that night. Marlene gives Moon Knight a new costume, and Frenchie fires up the new chopper. They arrive as Bushman pulls up to the house and sees a group of police out front. Before Bushman can escape, Moon Knight swings down on his chopper's ladder. "It can't be!" says Bushman, "You're dead!" The answer: "You can't kill me—nothing can!" Bushman tells his driver to plow through the police. Moon Knight glides down onto the car and knocks out the driver, causing the car to crash. Bushman runs into the Botanical Gardens. Moon Knight ducks a burst from Bushman's Sten gun and attacks. With his confidence restored, Moon Knight easily bests his opponent.
Back at his mansion, Grant asks Marlene if the statue of Khonshu she showed him is the copy, rather than the one he saw shattered. She says, "It's all in your mind anyway. If this one is the fake, then you've proven it—by defeating Bushman without the spirit of Khonshu."
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 11 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 11 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0156563001
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Owner Comments
"I'm ready for it now, Jean-Paul, truly ready. I've made the break. If the fates are kind, we will meet again in ten days ... and we will be together for a much longer time to come."
-- Isabelle Kristel
"To Catch a Killer"
Following an increase in cocaine traffic, Moon Knight breaks up a drug deal beneath a Manhattan bridge. He tells the two men he's only interested in "the big boy." One of them, named Creed, attacks Moon Knight with surprising strength and then flees. Moon Knight knocks the other into the river and calls Frenchie to pick him up, dismissing the two crooks as "strictly small fry."
Back at Grant's mansion, Moon Knight changes to Steven Grant. A woman arrives, looking for Marc Spector. Grant (who is also Spector) learns her name is Isabelle Kristel and summons Frenchie—she is Frenchie's true love. She leaves a package with him for safekeeping. In ten days she will return for it and for him.
After she leaves, Frenchie tells Marlene what happened. Long ago he and Kristel had an affair in France, but the strength of their passion frightened Kristel. She left him to find herself and to forget. Frenchie also tried to forget by becoming a mercenary. They met once more, in Africa, where she was working for "an agency of the French government" and aiding a rebellion.
Six days later they learn that Kristel has been murdered. Frenchie opens the package, which contains $250,000 in cash. The box is from Ritter's in New Orleans.
Jake Lockley (who is also Grant) investigates. According to Crawley, "Cajun" Creed killed her for failing to deliver a shipment of cocaine. Lockley deduces that she traced the cocaine pipeline from France to New Orleans, went undercover in Creed's outfit, and delivered a shipment to New York. She took the payoff to Frenchie, intending to wrap up the case, quit her job, and keep the money as a nest egg. Frenchie swears revenge. Mardi Gras, in two weeks, will make excellent cover.
Once in New Orleans, they disguise themselves: Frenchie as a pirate, and Moon Knight as Moon Knight. Eventually Frenchie finds Creed in a bar in the French Quarter—on a bet he is holding a bench over his head, with four women sitting on the bench. Frenchie steps up behind him and says, "Creed—Isabelle sends her love." Creed drops the bench.
Out on the street, Moon Knight sees Frenchie and Creed burst out of the bar. He throws a crescent dart to disarm Creed. Creed throws Moon Knight into a crowd and flees. A clown keeps Moon Knight from pursuing, but after some persuasion says that Creed's lair is a warehouse at Ursulines and Rampart. Frenchie has overhead the info, because he is gone when Moon Knight turns around.
Moon Knight finds the warehouse and, inside, crates full of cocaine. Frenchie confronts Creed but is surprised by a confederate, who shoots him. Moon Knight drops the confederate with his truncheon and goes after Creed. Now prepared for Creed's strength, Moon Knight dodges a few blows, but Creed catches him in a bear hug from behind and squeezes. Unable to break the hold, Moon Knight uses a double-barrelled over-the-shoulder punch.
The fight goes out of Creed. He confesses that things happened exactly as Lockley figured. He caught Kristel on her way to the French Embassy and tortured her for five days. All she would say was that was planning to retire with Frenchie. Moon Knight is about to punch him when Frenchie puts a hand on his arm and says, "No, Marc—let me!" SWAKT!
Two days later, in a cemetery outside Paris, Frenchie puts a rose on Kristel's grave. "I am ready now," he tells Spector. "I have made ... the break."
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 12 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 12 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017019
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 13 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 13 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017022
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 14 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 14 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017023
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 15 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 15 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1003017024
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Owner Comments
Sig. Series. Bill Sienkiewicz
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight 16 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight 16 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1007108022
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