It’s fun to walk through the early days of Marvel toying with Moon Knight in occasional guest appearances across the second-tier titles: fighting alongside a werewolf, bumping into the soap-opera version of Spidey, taking a guest appearance in the Thing’s never-ending series of team-ups...Unfortunately the weird “Hulk Magazine” issues haven’t been added to Marvel Unlimited so I’m missing out on all that cash-in-for-Hulk-on-70’s-TV goodness which must’ve been hellaciously schlocky to still be wai...

This volume collects the early appearances of the Moon Knight, from his appearance as a villain-of-the month in Werewolf by Night #32-33, to his first solo appearances in Marvel Spotlight and Rampaging Hulk magazine to his own series. Reading this collection shows the extreme growth the character made under the eye of writer Doug Moench and later artist Bill Sienkiewicz, taking him from a white cowled Batman rip-off to his own identity. One of my favorite characters as a kid, this book is a perf...

I must admit I didn’t read much of this collection, though I was never really planning on reading it cover to cover. I mostly got it because I was interested in seeing the Bill Sienkiewicz artwork. I find his art really interesting and I’m always excited to look at an artist now and look at some of their earliest stuff to see how much they have grown. One thing I really notice with this book is how much of a difference an inker can make. When Bill is inking himself his work is scratchy and loo

Oh man, the material reprinted from the Hulk Magazine is impossoble to read. Good stories, but I had to take a star off because no one bothered to color correct for b&w printing on those.

It's cool to see the early renditions of Moon Knight in his early guest appearances and one offs, and how much he's evolved in his more recent solo runs. It makes me appreciate the current Moon Knight characterization even more.With that being said though, this volume was a drag for me to get through. Kind of felt like a bunch of half baked shower thoughts that they threw against the wall to see what stuck. Probably won't read the second volume, but will read more recent runs of Moon Knight

There are two parts to this book: Moon Knight as a newly originated superhero, making guest spots in other people's magazines (decent), and Moon Knight's solo adventures (total crap)Even the crossovers with regular superheroes aren't that great. It's like Spider-Man is on the trail of Cyclone and the Maggia, or The Thing is on the trail of Crossfire, and Moon Knight also wants to show up and punch people. His action aesthetic is minimal (floats around and punches people).Probably the best part o...

Moon Knight has been described as Marvel's Batman, and there's some truth in that but the characters have some differences too. These early stories are interesting but as some readers have pointed out the character was still undeveloped. I like the fact this is almost a horror/super hero comic as many of the stories have some dark horror themes. The art at times resembles Neal Adams and since Adams is one of my favorite artists I enjoyed it even though it was derivative. Sienkiewicz developed a

The origins of Marvel Comic’s Moon Knight are told, re-told, ret-conned and builds up into his own series. This is by and large a fun collection of early appearances, shorts stories, and ones shots. If one is fascinated to see how a character can change in a short amount of time, then this is a good volume to read and gaze. The exploits include special appearances with Werewolf by Night, Spider-Man, The Thing, and The Hulk (from a Black and White magazine). Almost all of the issues are written b...

I'm not sure they knew where they were going with Moon Knight in these first stories. Is he the reincarnation of the Moon God? Is he a hero? Or is he just mentally ill? Funny enough though, as rough a start as it is, I'm still interested in reading more. I'm hoping the series finds more direction as it continues.

This is okay. Moon knight is not at all a fully realized character yet. Think it'll take a while for anyone to figure out what to do with his complicated identity and still under written skill set. But in the meantime I enjoy his many sidekicks. What an unusual group of crime fighters.

It's kind of funny...you can tell that in his first few appearances, they had no idea what to do with Moon Knight. He was a bad guy...then he's a good guy. He has werewolf-powers, or maybe they were granted by Konshu. Doug Moench does a great job of finally reconciling these things in a way that makes some sort of sense.And Bill Sienkiewicz is one of my favorite artists, though they don't let him go too crazy thoughout most of this volume. Still, it's good stuff all around.

I liked his origin story were he was a mercenary and got power from an Egyptianlike god (the one in his own title not the ones at the start that kept changing). That however, was the only interesting part. The rest felt a bunch of knockoff, less interesting Batman stories of the same era. It doesn't surprise me that this writer went to the Batman title a couple of years later, they're really similar.

Interesting character, multiple identities and it starts really delving into that halfway through the main series. A little dated.

Essential Moon Knight, Volume One is unfortunately… not essential. Yes, when it comes to the introduction of Moon Knight/Marc Spector, issues in this volume are undeniably essential, however, so many of the stories found within these pages felt incomplete, underdeveloped, or simply lacking in information. I can’t say whether this is due to poor writing or if it’s due to story arcs being absent from the book, but Essential Moon Knight always felt as if there was something missing.Aside from this

A blatant Batman rip-- I mean homage. I read these as comics and in the larger magazine format years ago and enjoyed them again now. The Marvel Essential series gives you access to a lot of hard to find or expensive comics in each volume. I grumble from time to time about them being printed in black and white, but in Moon Knight, it fits with the character and the duotone overlays in the artwork.

While I do have most (if not all) of the Sienkiewicz issues I did actually purchase this trade (I’m not big on collected editions of comics) for the sole reason to see the work in black and white (much preferred).Aside from the first 10 issues of MK, which is great to see Sienkiewicz really coming into his own (most notably on the covers and issues 3, 9 and 10, where is he inking himself), it’s vaguely amusing to see some of the early stories (in Hulk Magazine, etc). All in all the stories are n...

NOTE: this Essential series does not contain reprints of the original colours. It's all black and white, but that isn't a bad thing!Prepare for your new favourite comic book superhero. Probably one of the best (largely-unknown) characters in Marvel's epic pantheon of comicbook heroes. "Crescent crusader", the "jet and silver wraith", "spectre of the moon", "moon's knight of vengeance" are just a few of the monikers he goes by. In 1975 Marvel introduced: Moon Knight. Making his surprise debut app...

Very interesting to see the evolution of Moon Knight’s origin. Some definite wandering at first but, the 10 issues of the debut series reconcile most of the loose ends and the Sienkiewicz art is fantastic.

A great trawl through the early days of Moon Knight. From guest-star to mysterious, schizophrenic leading protagonist, Moon Knight, Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockly are an interesting character to step out from Marvel's late 70s horror genre.The majority of stories work really well here in the black and white format and it was great to see Sienkiewicz's talent develop over months as the series progresses.A good introduction to the character and a must read for anyone who enjoys Moon Kn...

3.5.—love the art.