Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1
Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1 (January 3, 2024) marks the first in-costume appearance of Maximillian Coleridge — the Shroud — operating under the Moon Knight mantle, making it the first-appearance issue for that specific character-as-Moon-Knight identity. It serves as the direct narrative successor to Moon Knight vol. 9 #30, picking up the story of the Midnight Mission in the immediate wake of Marc Spector's death and asking, for the first time in the character's publishing history, what the Moon Knight legacy looks like when severed from its original avatar. The issue is also the opening chapter of Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio's second consecutive Moon Knight series, demonstrating the degree to which that creative team's 30-issue run had earned enough reader trust for Marvel to relaunch rather than hand off the property.
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The series was announced by Marvel on September 15, 2023, as a direct continuation of MacKay and Cappuccio's Moon Knight vol. 9 run, which had stretched across 30 issues from 2021 to December 2023. Editor Tom Brevoort shepherded the transition; Cappuccio designed the new all-black Moon Knight suit from scratch, drawing on ancient Egyptian banded armor and replacing the character's classic batons with weapons inspired by flowers of the Nile as depicted in hieroglyphics. The cover of issue #1 was provided by David Finch, while a high-ratio variant featured art by Greg Capullo — an unusual concentration of superstar cover talent signaling the relaunch's promotional weight.
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- Published January 3, 2024 by Marvel Comics; written by Jed MacKay, art by Alessandro Cappuccio, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg, letters by VC's Cory Petit, edited by Tom Brevoort.
- First appearance of Maximillian Coleridge (the Shroud) in the Moon Knight role — confirmed in the Marvel Database and League of Comic Geeks as his debut appearance under that mantle (cameo as Moon Knight in this issue, full reveal across subsequent issues).
- Direct sequel to Moon Knight vol. 9 (2021–2023), which concluded with Marc Spector's death in Moon Knight #30 (December 2023); this issue picks up the Midnight Mission storyline immediately afterward.
- The central driving mystery of the series is the identity of the new, all-black-costumed Moon Knight who appears hostile to the Midnight Mission — later revealed to be Maximillian Coleridge, the Shroud, a Darkforce-wielding antihero and former de facto member of the West Coast Avengers.
- Alessandro Cappuccio designed the new Moon Knight's black costume from the ground up, citing ancient Egyptian banded armor as his reference point and replacing classic crescent-dart batons with weapons reminiscent of Nile flowers from hieroglyphics.
- The cover of the standard edition was illustrated by David Finch; variant covers included work by Greg Capullo (1:50 and 1:50 virgin), Frank Miller (regular and virgin), Leinil Francis Yu (1:25), and a Gene Colan 'Hidden Gem' reprint variant (1:200).
- The series ran for 9 issues (January–September 2024) before transitioning into Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (2024) with the same creative team.
- Maximillian Coleridge (the Shroud) was originally created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe, first appearing in Super-Villain Team-Up #5 (1976) — making this issue the revival of a character who had been largely absent from major storylines for decades.
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