Updated June 20, 2026! The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide and trade reading order on collecting Moon Knight comic books via omnibuses, hardcovers, and trade paperback graphic novels. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics. Last updated June 2026 with titles scheduled for release through November 2026.
Moon Knight is Marvel’s distorted Bruce Wayne.
Marc Spector is a willingly schizophrenic playboy millionaire, former military mercenary, and sometimes cab driver who avenges crime while tacitly under the command of an Egyptian god whose powers are both a blessing and a curse that deepens Spector’s insanity.
Did you get all that?
Basically, he’s every bit as unstable as a hero like Batman ought to be played, with the added bonus of multiple identities to explain away the shifts in his personalities cross different runs and creative teams. Plus, that means Moon Knight can never quite be sure he can believe the reality around him.
Moon Knight started out as a humble monster-hunter, introduced as an antagonist to Werewolf by Night. After a string of guest appearances, he graduated into his own title in 1980 and ran almost continuously until 1994.
Despite being a great fit for the extreme 90s, Moon Knight didn’t survive the mid-decade cull of Marvel’s smaller characters and all but disappeared for a decade aside from a pair of four-issue mini-series in 1998 and 1999.
When he returned in 2006, it was with a wink and a nod that he existed somewhere between Batman and Punisher – a vigilante all too happy to mete out his own form of justice in the form of extreme violence.
Since then, Moon Knight has gone from niche fan favorite, to a string of brief runs from high profile creators, to a multi-year run from writer Jed MacKay that has made him one of Marvel most-consistent (and most consistently top-selling) stars.
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