{"id":673,"date":"2018-09-26T23:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2018-12-26T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T23:43:09","slug":"character-spotlight-moon-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/character-spotlight-moon-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Spotlight &#8211; Moon Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Moon Knight first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32 (Aug 1975) and was the enemy of Jack Russell (Werewolf).\u00a0 Saved by the Egyptian God Khonshu from Death, Marc Spector (aka Moon Knight) pledged his allegiance for a second chance at life&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Marc Spector was born in Chicago, Illinois and was the son of a Jewish-American Rabbi.\u00a0 When Marc became and adult, he was first a heavy weight boxer then later a US Marine.\u00a0 He later left the United States military to become a mercenary.\u00a0 It was during his time as a mercenary that his group found an ancient temple where artifacts and statutes dedicated to the Egyptian moon god Khonshu were buried.\u00a0 His team leader Raoul Bushman kills the archaeological leader Dr. Peter Alraune.\u00a0 In response to the murder, Spector battles Bushman and is fatally wounded.\u00a0\u00a0 Raoul leaves Marc to die at the dig site.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"448\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Marc would later be rescued by Egyptians who worship the ancient gods.\u00a0 He dies in front of the statute of Khonshu who appears to him in a vision offering Spector a second chance at life if he will become Khonshu&#8217;s avatar on earth.\u00a0 Agreeing to the deal, Khonshu saves his life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-600x337.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Did you know in the character&#8217;s first appearance he was supplied his uniform and weapons by an organization known as the committee and not the Egyptian God Khonshu? His job as assigned by the committe was to hunt down Jack Russell aka the Werewolf.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1-600x336.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Knight first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32 (Aug 1975) and was the enemy of Jack Russell (Werewolf).\u00a0 Saved by the Egyptian God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[654,655,659,653,658,657,656,660],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-spotlight","category-miscellaneous","tag-jack-russell","tag-jake-lockley","tag-khonshu","tag-marc-spector","tag-marvel-moonlight","tag-moon-knight","tag-steven-grant","tag-werewolf-by-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}