On his return to the United States, Spector invests his mercenary profits into becoming the crimefighter 'Moon Knight', aided by Frenchie and Marlene Alraune, who becomes his lover and eventually the mother of his daughter. While early stories imply Spector is merely insane, it is later revealed Khonshu is real, one of several entities from the Othervoid (a dimension outside normal time and space) once worshipped by ancient Earth people. He claims Khonshu wants him to be the 'moon's knight', the left ' Fist of Khonshu', redeeming his life of violence by now protecting and avenging the innocent. Spector dies, then suddenly revives, fully healed. After fighting Bushman and being left for dead, a mortally wounded Spector reaches Alraune's recently unearthed tomb and is placed before a statue of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Alraune in front of the man's daughter and colleague, Marlene Alraune. During a job in Sudan, Spector is appalled when ruthless fellow mercenary Raoul Bushman attacks and kills archeologist Dr. The son of a rabbi, Marc Spector served as a Force Recon Marine and briefly as a CIA operative before becoming a mercenary alongside his friend Jean-Paul 'Frenchie' DuChamp. Created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin, the character first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32 (August 1975). Moon Knight is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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