Summary
NewMCUart gives Marc Spector’sMoon Knighta retro, 1970s-style costume, inspired by unused plans for a classic series featuring the Fist of Khonshu. Oscar Isaac brought Marc Spector into live-action for the first time ever in Marvel Studios’Moon Knightseries in 2022, and was gifted a fantastic, comic-accurate costume as the titular superhero.Moon Knight’s costume and weaponryinthe MCU timelinewas inspired by the character’s Egyptian roots, as Spector received his abilities after entering into a deal with the Egyptian God of the Moon, Khonshu.
Moon Knight made his first appearance in Marvel Comics in 1975’sWerewolf by Night #32, created by comic author Doug Moench. In his early years, Moon Knight utilized a more simple, retro costume that inspired new fan art shared byarifinity_, whichredesigns the MCU’s Moon Knight suit in his classic design.
As well as being inspired by Moon Knight’s early designs in Marvel Comics,this art also takes inspiration from unrealized plans for a JapaneseMoon Knightseries in the 1970s, which could have established Marvel’s first shared live-action superhero universe.
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With Moon Knight finally being added to the MCU, it’s a great time to look back on his best appearances in other media.
How The Canceled Moon Knight Series Could Have Kick-Started An Earlier Marvel Shared Universe
During Moon Knight’s first starring appearance in Marvel Comics’Marvel Preview #21in 1980, writer Doug Moench suggested that foreign interest in the character had prompted a Japanese TV series focused on Moon Knight to go into development. As it turns out, this was a false claim, thougha JapaneseMoon Knightseries had been planned. This was spurred on by previous interest in the Japanese character of Moonlight Mask, a.k.a. Moonbeam Man, who starred in a series of tokusatsu and anime shows from 1958 onwards, becoming Japan’s first on-screen superhero.
The famous deal between Marvel and the Japanese Toei Company that allowed projects featuring a version of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man to be created was also set to feature the introduction of a Japanese version of Moon Knight.Takuya Yamashiro’s Spider-Manappeared in a number of live-action movies and TV shows back in the 1970s, and has become a cult legend, and the same was set to occur with Moon Knight. These plans were abandoned in favor of delivering a Moon Knight-focused manga series,butthis almost established a shared superhero universe three decades before the MCU.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse included dozens of different versions of Spider-Man, but several more were planned and cut from the final film.
Spider-Man and Moon Knight are yet to cross paths in the live-action MCU, but it’s very possible that this could happen before the end of the Multiverse Saga. Since both are now more grounded, street-level MCU heroes, they could meet during any number of upcoming projects, includingSpider-Man 4, Daredevil: Born Again, orAvengers 5. While the Japanese iteration of Spider-Man has the opportunity to return in Sony’s upcomingSpider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, there has been no word on whether the JapaneseMoon Knightwill ever see an animated or live-action adaptation.
