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Moon Knight #25

Name: Moon Knight #25
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Nov 1982 · Marvel · 1.00 USD; 0.50 GBP; 1.25 CAD

📊 ~23,280 copies sold its debut month

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“Black Spectre”

★ 1st appearance — Black Spectre

In "Black Spectre," Moon Knight #25 (1982) delivers a chilling twist on the hero’s world as a desperate man, driven to the edge, declares himself an anti-Moon Knight while running for mayor of New York in his civilian identity. Written by Doug Moench and brought to life with stark, expressive art by Bill Sienkiewicz—both on the interior and the cover—this issue explores the fragile line between justice and madness.

writer Doug Moench · artist, inker Bill Sienkiewicz · colorist Christie Scheele · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Bill Sienkiewicz

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Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Black Spectre (Carson Knowles), created by writer Doug Moench and penciller/inker Bill Sienkiewicz; published November 1982.
Carson Knowles is a Vietnam War veteran and son of a politician whose cascading personal losses — his wife leaving, his son dying, chronic unemployment — drive him to murder and a campaign to destroy New York City from the inside by running for mayor.
Knowles deliberately models the Black Spectre identity as the antithesis of Moon Knight, adopting an opposing black-and-white armored aesthetic and arming himself with a sword and mace rather than Moon Knight's signature crescent weapons.
The issue is a special double-sized format (43 story pages), giving Moench room to develop Knowles's origins across multiple years of in-story time before the first confrontation with Marc Spector.
The story concludes with Marlene Alraune exposing Knowles's blackmail documents, Black Spectre being unmasked in public during a climactic confrontation, and Knowles arrested and committed — not simply jailed — reflecting the issue's psychological underpinning.
A back-matter article by Sienkiewicz, 'A Tale of Three Covers,' reveals never-before-published alternative covers for earlier issues, including an unpublished Frank Miller/Sienkiewicz collaborative cover for issue #13, documented as the first time Sienkiewicz inked another artist's pencils.
Denny O'Neil is listed as editor of the issue; the full creative credits also include colorist Christie Scheele and letterer Joe Rosen.
The character was revisited by Moench himself in the four-part Moon Knight: The Resurrection War mini-series (1998) and later reappeared in the 2006 Moon Knight series' 'God and Country' arc (issues #15–19), written by Mike Benson with art by Mark Texeira.