Marvel: Who is Moon Knight, the new Disney + superhero?

If the characters from the Marvel series that hit Disney + have already appeared in cinemas before appearing on small screens like Wanda, Loki or Winter Soldier, the next one will come to life for the first time. The series that bears his name: Moon Knight.

Embodied by the talented Oscar Isaacs for this occasion, this superhero, relatively unknown to the general French public, is actually a character that Maison des Idées fans have been hoping for on screen for many years.

Indeed, the Moon Knight, whose real name is Mark Spector, has been around since 1975. Created by screenwriter Doug Moenche and designer Don Perlin, it first appeared in comics. Werewolf at night Number 32. In this episode he is the creator of a secret criminal organization, a committee.

Quickly becoming popular, the character got his own story the following year in numbers 28 and 29 In the spotlight of Marvel Where its origin is altered. After visiting several times Hulk! JournalNicknamed the Knight of the Moon, he became the protagonist of a TV series named after him in 1980, which begins with a story of a new origin for him.

Born in Chicago, still called Mark Spector, he is the son of a wealthy rabbi. A professional boxer, he enlisted in the army while pursuing an career as an elite mercenary. During the mission, he confronts his leader – Bushman, with whom he disagrees – who beats him and leaves him dead in the desert of Egypt.

The villagers found his body was taken to the grave of Pharaoh Seth. There, Mark Spector comes in and says he dreamed of Khonshou, the moon god and performer of Egyptian mythology. Determined to take revenge on Bushman, he takes the cape that adorned the statue of the Egyptian god and becomes the watchful knight of the moon.

Returning to the United States, he spends his nights with bandits whom he does not hesitate to kill, unlike many superheroes. He is assisted in his assignment by his friend Jean-Paul “French” Duchamp and his partner Marlene Allraun. He also uses different identities to achieve his goals, including billionaire businessman Stephen Grant.

As his adventures unfolded, the writers eventually identified Mark as a man with a dissociative identity disorder. And that’s exactly the feature that will be featured in the series, which launches this Wednesday on Disney +. The first pictures of the show also showed more of Stephen Grant, who for this occasion became a cautious employee of the souvenir shop, rather than Mark Spector.

In most of his stories, the Moon Knight – the protagonist is regularly compared to Batman, because of his tortured side and the very dark world in which he develops – has no supernatural powers. Moreover, it emphasizes his intellect, sporting abilities and combat experience. However, in some comics, his strength and resilience to injury were linked to different phases of the moon.

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