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Werewolf By Night 32 |
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Werewolf By Night #32 Universal |
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CGC 9.6 |
| Cert #: |
1031177010
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Owner Comments
Go on, Topaz, say it—because I've got the Moon-Cooties and you don't want to be around when I sprout fangs again.
-- Jack Russell
Second Night
In the middle of a seedy alley, the Werewolf battles a mysterious costumed figure known as Moon Knight. Armed with silver weapons, the Moon Knight attacks the werewolf as a crowd begins to draw. He slings three crescent-shaped throwing darts into the werewolf's chest, and punches him with a solid silver cestus. The werewolf howls in pain, and a portion of his mind reflects upon recent events.
First Night
On the evening prior, Jack transformed into the werewolf during a skiing trip in Northern California where he brutally mauled his friend Buck Cowan. He retreated into the snowy forests and found shelter beneath some fallen timbers. Buck's body was recovered and taken to Westwood Hospital where surgeons labored to save his life.
When Jack awakened, he had no idea where he was, nor what he had done to Buck. He hitchhiked back home where his stepfather told him of Buck's condition. Jack sped to the hospital where he met with Lissa and Topaz. They told him that Buck was in critical condition and had slipped into a coma.
When Jack returned home, he found the Moon Knight standing in his living room. The Moon Knight knew that Jack was a werewolf and revealed that the Committee paid him $10,000 to bring him in alive. Phillip Russell grabbed Moon Knight and restrained him long enough for Jack to get out of the house.
Third Night
Back in the present, Moon Knight continues to batter the werewolf with several well-placed Savate kicks from his silver-lined boots. While the Moon Knight continues fighting the werewolf, his partner, Frenchie, goes to Westwood Hospital and abducts Lissa and Topaz. Moon Knight finally renders the werewolf unconscious and begins dragging him towards his helicopter.
Meanwhile, Victor Northrup takes an airplane to Haiti on the trail of former werewolf Raymond Coker. Coker is in the midst of conversation with an aging Voodooine named Jeesala of the Thousand Years. Jeesala tells Coker that he is still cursed by the mark of the Man-Beast.
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Werewolf By Night 33 |
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Werewolf By Night #33 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0939075002
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Owner Comments
The Committee wants you alive -- ! And if you can't get that through your hairy head -- I'm gonna have to pound it in!
-- Moon Knight
With the stunned werewolf slung across his shoulder, Moon Knight ascends the rope ladder leading to his Moon-Chopper. The police fire off a few shots in the hopes of bringing them down, but the chopper flies out of range.
In Haiti, Raymond Coker goes to the swampland hut of Jeesala of the Thousand Years. He tells her of his experience as a werewolf and also tells her of an incident concerning the sudden deaths of his aunt and uncle. He recounts testimony provided by his cousin Banita, which claims that her parents were strangled and dragged off by a man named Papa Jaranda. Papa Jaranda is Coker's great-grandfather and he died over thirty-two years ago. Jeesala tells him that the zuvembies have returned to Haiti. She refers him to a man named Jericho Drumm.
Back in the United States, the werewolf awakens mere inches away from the cabin of the helicopter. He begins lashing out at Moon Knight and the two topple from the rope ladder and plummet into the ocean. Moon Knight drags the stunned werewolf onto the nearby docks and they continue battling one another. As dawn rises, the werewolf turns back into Jack Russell. Moon Knight puts him down for the count with a well-placed boot to the jaw. He meets back up with Frenchie and together they bring Jack, as well as Lissa and Topaz to the Committee.
Meanwhile at Westwood Hospital, Elaine Marston and her daughter Buttons visits the room of coma patient Buck Cowan. The doctors explain that his injuries are quite severe and that he may even suffer from paralysis - providing of course that he even awakens from his coma.
At the Committee headquarters, the leader of the organization pays Moon Knight his ten-thousand dollar stipend. Jack Russell is concealed in a cage, while Lissa and Topaz are bound to a nearby wall. The Committee member reveals that he plans on using Jack as a secret weapon to eliminate rivals. Jack yells at Moon Knight and tells him that he hasn't just captured a monster, but an actual human being. Rhetorically, he asks him "Are you shocked to hear that I'm an honest-to-God person -- ?" Something in Jack's words sparks Moon Knight's conscience and he regrets having captured him. As the moon rises on the third night, Jack transforms once again into the werewolf. Moon Knight refuses to allow the Committee to use him as their personal secret weapon, so he frees Jack and together they tear into the Committee members. Most of them flee in terror, but the werewolf manages to rake their leader across the face with his claws. Moon Knight uses his crescent darts to free Lissa and Topaz then runs off. When the room is clear of bodies, the werewolf likewise leaves and races off into the night.
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Werewolf By Night 37 |
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Werewolf By Night #37 Universal |
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CGC 9.2 |
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0170277008
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Marvel Spotlight 28 |
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Marvel Spotlight #28 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1018310014
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Owner Comments
I'm gonna get a crease right through my cowl if you don't get that chopper's butt down here fast!
-- Moon Knight
In Manhattan, the caped avenger known as Moon Knight spies seven masked men attempting a late night robbery. He swings down from the rooftops and quickly disables all seven of them with several swiftly thrown crescent darts. His work finished, he returns to his helicopter, piloted by his trusted ally, Frenchie. Frenchie informs Moon Knight that the building the masked men were attempting to break into was the campaign headquarters for a mayoral prospect named Charles Thurston.
Elsewhere, a man known as the Conquer-Lord conspires with a crony named Weasel. The Conquer-Lord is responsible for the failed burglary of the campaign headquarters. It is his intention to blame the burglary on the current Mayor, thereby allowing him to push his own chosen lackey into office. Weasel informs the Conquer-Lord that Moon Knight foiled the robbery, and he presents him with a comprehensive dossier containing Moon Knight's true identity, as well as that of his various aliases. Satisfied that Weasel has told him everything he needs to know about Moon Knight, the Conquer-Lord promptly kills him.
That evening, Moon Knight returns home to lavish Spector Mansion and briefly speaks with his lover and Girl Friday, Marlene Fontaine. Marlene reminds him of a society function that he is to attend in the guise of millionaire Steven Grant, but Moon Knight has more pressing concerns to worry about. Rather than adopting the guise of the millionaire, he instead assumes the identity of his undercover alias, taxicab driver Jake Lockley.
As Lockley, he drives to a diner called The Other Place, where he confers with two trusted confidantes: a waitress named Gena, and a homeless man named Crawley. Crawley is a reservoir of useful information, and tells Jake about the Conquer-Lord and his plans to manipulate the election.
Realizing that the current Mayor's life may be in danger, he returns to Long Island and switches into his Moon Knight costume. He arrives at the Mayor's estate along with Marlene, only to find the Conquer-Lord preparing to attack. The two costumed combatants fight one another, and the Conquer-Lord takes Marlene hostage. Before Moon Knight can make another move, the Mayor's butler bursts open a balcony window screaming that the Mayor has been shot.
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Marvel Spotlight 29 |
| Item: |
Marvel Spotlight #29 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0175232002
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Owner Comments
Continued from last issue... Moon Knight tries to prevent the Conquer-Lord from assassinating the mayor, while he succeeds in preventing the mayors death, the mayor is still wounded from the shot, and Conquer-Lord and his minions manage to escape with Marlene as their hostage.
Moon Knight then tries to track down the Conquer-Lord by going after his associate Merkins, and manages to track down Conquer-Lord's base. There he fights through the Conquer-Lord's men, eventually getting to the central control room. There he finds Marlene being suspended over a pit with alligators.
Moon Knight is then dumped into a chess board themed battle arena where he is forced to fight the Conquer-Lord and his gigantic trick chess pieces. Although the Conquer-Lord tries to escape, Moon Knight manages to stop him and save Marlene, leaving the unmasked Conquer-Lord for the authorities, with his calling card left identifying Moon Knights involvement.
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Spectacular Spider-Man 22 |
| Item: |
Spectacular Spider-Man #22 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1006544006
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| Slot: |
Spectacular Spider-Man 23 |
| Item: |
Spectacular Spider-Man #23 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0968535003
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| Slot: |
Marvel Two-In-One 52 |
| Item: |
Marvel Two-In-One #52 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0952572017
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| Slot: |
Moon Knight (1980) 1 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #1 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
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 (1980) 2 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #2 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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 (1980) 3 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #3 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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 (1980) 4 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #4 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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 (1980) 5 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #5 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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 (1980) 6 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #6 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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 (1980) 7 |
| Item: |
Moon Knight #7 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| 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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