Posted: 06 March 2006 at 1:53am | IP Logged | 9
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MOON KNIGHT MEMORIES
Moon Knight. Loved the character. Got hooked when he got his own book. I was just a kid; I didn't recognize the Neal Adams influence in Bill's work. Not that that matters all that much. The art was great and Moench's stories were fantastic.
This series inspired my first mail-order order. Mile High Comics! I had missed a few issues, so I saved my money and bought the whole run in VF. The series was at about issue 11 at that time. I can still recall getting the package in the mail, and the way.those books smelled. So crisp and pulpy. And all the way from Colorado to Virginia, too! I was thrilled. I had all the issues, including #1, in order, with clean, color-soaked covers!
I loved MK's battles with Bushman and Morpheus. Loved Frenchy and the crescent 'copter. Loved the four identities, the truncheons, the cowl and the glider-cape. Moon Knight was an exciting comic then.
That run of MK also marks another line in time for me. It was the exact time when a few Marvel books went "direct". Ka-Zar, by Brent Anderson and Bruce Jones, was another.
Suddenly, Moon Knight was only available at comics shops. 75 cents a pop. Marvel even kicked it all off with a beautiful painted cover of MK runnning and throwing his crescent darts (#13?). It felt like I was getting DELUXE MOON KNIGHT. It was exciting. I hit the store in Phoebus, Va. (Bender's Comics) regularly for the next Moon Knight issues.
Little did I know then that very soon comics would no longer be available in grocery stores, local books stores, the Mom and Pop convenience stores. Little did I know that Moon Knight was one of Marvel's first thrusts into the direct marketplace Little did I know that American comic books were about to change forever.
I'm definetly picking up this ESSENTIAL. Of all the various Marvel superheroes, Moon Knight really grabbed me. Long live MK.
Edited by Jeremiah Hetherington on 06 March 2006 at 1:54am
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