Vengeance of the Moon Knight #3

May 2024 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

📊 ~23,348 copies sold its debut month

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“Soldier”

About this Issue

Issue #3 of the 2024 Vengeance of the Moon Knight series is a character-study pivot that shifts the narrative focus squarely onto Soldier — the vampire ex-Hydra operative turned Midnight Mission loyalist — placing him in Dr. Andrea Sterman's therapy chair to excavate his guilt over Marc Spector's death. It also marks the first time the Midnight Mission reaches out to the ancient vampire Lady Yulan for assistance in tracking the black-costumed impostor, a story beat that deepens the MacKay-era mythology around the Mission as a living institution capable of surviving its founder. The issue functions as a structural argument that the supporting ensemble MacKay built across his Moon Knight (2021) run could carry a title on their own terms — a thesis the entire nine-issue Vengeance series ultimately proves.

writer Jed MacKay · artist, inker Alessandro Cappuccio · colorist Rachelle Rosenberg · letterer VC's Cory Petit · cover Davide Paratore

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History

Announced in September 2023 and launched in January 2024, Vengeance of the Moon Knight was conceived as a direct continuation of Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio's Moon Knight (2021) run, which concluded with Marc Spector's death in issue #30. MacKay has described Vengeance as an examination of whether the institution Marc built — the Midnight Mission — could survive without him, a thematic shift from the redemption arc of the preceding series. Issue #3 shipped on March 20, 2024, under the editorial direction of Devin Lewis, with colors by Rachelle Rosenberg and letters by Cory Petit, the same core production team that had been with the book since 2021.

Trivia · 8 facts

Published March 20, 2024; written by Jed MacKay, art by Alessandro Cappuccio, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg, letters by Cory Petit, edited by Devin Lewis.
Issue #3 is the Soldier-focused installment of the series' recurring 'therapy session' framing device, with Dr. Andrea Sterman hearing Soldier's grief and guilt over Moon Knight's death.
The impostor Moon Knight's escalating brutality against street-level costumed criminals — including Flying Tiger, Looter, Scorcher, and Squid — directly provokes a retaliatory attack on the Midnight Mission in this issue.
Tigra and Soldier repel the attack by the four costumed criminals on the Midnight Mission.
The Midnight Mission concludes it needs outside help and approaches Lady Yulan — a 700-year-old vampire — to assist in locating the impostor Moon Knight.
The House of Shadows, the sentient Midnight Mission building established in MacKay's Moon Knight (2021) run, appears as a cameo presence.
The impostor wearing the black Moon Knight costume is later revealed across the series to be Maximillian Coleridge, the Shroud, who possesses Darkforce-based shadow powers — a clue seeded by the character's behavior throughout these early issues.
The issue was subsequently collected in the trade paperback Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol. 1: New Moon, which collects issues #1–4 of the series.