Vengeance of the Moon Knight #7
Issue #7 of the 2024 series is the narrative fulcrum of Jed MacKay's long-running Moon Knight saga: it delivers the resurrection of Marc Spector, a story beat that had been building since his death in Moon Knight (2021) #28–30 and was structurally impossible until Khonshu himself was freed from his Asgardian prison. The issue functions as both a satisfying payoff for readers who had followed MacKay's run from 2021 and as a pivotal Blood Hunt tie-in, directly bridging Vengeance of the Moon Knight into the subsequent ongoing series Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu. It also marks the creative high-water point of a heist-style single issue within MacKay's run — a tightly constructed 'mission impossible' structure that critics singled out as one of the better tie-in issues of the entire Blood Hunt event. The emotional reunion between Marc Spector and Tigra (Greer Nelson), and Khonshu's summoning of an army of past Moon Knights, gave the MacKay era its clearest statement yet about the mythological weight behind the Fist of Khonshu concept.
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Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2024) was announced in September 2023 as the direct continuation of MacKay and Cappuccio's Moon Knight (2021) run, which concluded with issue #30 after Marc Spector's death in 'The Last Days of Moon Knight.' The series debuted January 3, 2024, with the same core creative team — writer Jed MacKay, penciller/inker Alessandro Cappuccio, colorist Rachelle Rosenberg, and letterer VC's Cory Petit — effectively making it a renumbered continuation rather than a true relaunch. Issue #7, released July 24, 2024, was the third and final Blood Hunt tie-in in the series (issues #5–7) and was edited by Devin Lewis under editor-in-chief C. B. Cebulski. The nine-issue series concluded in September 2024 and was immediately followed by Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (2024), continuing the same creative team's unbroken run with the character.
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- Written by Jed MacKay, with interior art by Alessandro Cappuccio, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg, and letters by VC's Cory Petit; cover by Davide Paratore. Released July 24, 2024.
- Serves as a tie-in to the 2024 Marvel event Blood Hunt (issues #5–7 of the series are all Blood Hunt tie-ins), crosslinking directly with the events of Blood Hunt #3 and #4.
- Central plot is a heist: Tigra (Greer Nelson), Hunter's Moon (Dr. Yehya Badr), and Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite) — the secret 'third party' ally — are teleported to Asgard by Clea to break Khonshu out of his magical Asgardian prison cell. Wrecker's enchanted crowbar provides the key to cracking an Asgardian lock.
- Marc Spector is resurrected in this issue after being dead since Moon Knight (2021) #30. Khonshu, once freed, summons an army of past Moon Knights — including Marc — to fight the vampire forces overrunning Earth during Blood Hunt.
- Maximillian Coleridge (the Shroud) had been impersonating Moon Knight in a black costume throughout the series; the resolution of that storyline dovetails with Marc's return as the true Fist of Khonshu.
- The issue features a prominent emotional scene between Marc Spector and Tigra upon his resurrection, which multiple reviewers cited as a standout character moment in MacKay's entire run.
- Issue is collected in the trade paperback Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol. 2: It's Alive, which collects issues #5–9 of the series.
- The Marvel Fandom wiki lists two reprints of this issue, and it carries a Rated T+ (13 and up) advisory.
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