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History

The series was announced by Marvel in May 2024 as a four-issue limited anthology, positioned as a companion to Jed MacKay's long-running Moon Knight titles and explicitly built to pay off threads MacKay's run had planted: the revelation that multiple Fists of Khonshu have existed across history, and the Shroud's controversial usurpation of Marc Spector's mantle. Issue #1 (released August 28, 2024) was co-written by Erica Schultz and Benjamin Percy, with art by Manuel García (and inker Sean Parsons) on the Shroud story and Rod Reis handling both writing and full art duties on the Crusades tale; covers were provided by Mateus Manhanini with several variant artists including Stephanie Hans and Andrei Bressan. The series was edited by Devin Lewis and collected in a trade paperback released by Penguin Random House in May 2025.

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• Phases of the Moon Knight is a four-issue limited anthology series (issues #1–4), with issue #1 released August 28, 2024 (cover date October 2024) and issue #4 cover-dated January 2025.
• Issue #1 is co-written by Erica Schultz (story 1, art by Manuel García and inker Sean Parsons) and Benjamin Percy (story 2, art by Rod Reis); cover art is by Mateus Manhanini.
• Story 1 ('The Once and Future Knight') follows Maximillian Coleridge — the long-running anti-hero known as the Shroud — in his self-appointed role as a darker, more vengeful Moon Knight following Marc Spector's death in the concurrent 'Vengeance of the Moon Knight' storyline.
• Maximillian Coleridge (the Shroud) was originally created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe, first appearing in Super-Villain Team-Up #5 (April 1976); his assumption of the Moon Knight identity was first shown in Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol. 2 #1 (2024), with Phases of the Moon Knight #1 providing the first dedicated solo story exploring that arc.
• Story 2 ('Crusader') introduces Cassian, a new Fist of Khonshu from the era of the medieval Crusades — a previously unseen avatar — and places him in conflict with the ancient mutant Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) in Ancient Egypt, connecting Moon Knight lore to the broader X-Men/mutant history of the Marvel Universe.
• The series premise — that Khonshu has empowered avatars across all of human history — directly expands upon the concept of Hunter's Moon (a second contemporary avatar introduced in Jed MacKay's 2021 Moon Knight run), treating the mantle as a recurring cosmic institution rather than a singular legacy.
• Khonshu himself, while only referenced in issue #1, becomes a direct participant in one of the anthology stories in issue #4, described in solicitation copy as appearing 'for the very first time' as an active story actor within the series.
• The full four-issue series was collected in a trade paperback (ISBN 9781302960162), published May 6, 2025, by Penguin Random House, under the editorial banner of Jed MacKay as lead architect of the Moon Knight line.

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