#Moon knight in werewolf by night series

With the recent announcement by current owner, Disney, that the Moon Knight would be getting his own series the character has enjoyed renewed interest. Moon Knight was garbed in silver and designed from the ground up to be a werewolf slayer.

Moench was writing Werewolf by Night at the time and looking to put his stamp, his unique creation in the pantheon of Marvel story writing and needed a villain to hunt the Wolf.

Contrary to popular belief the Moon Knight was not created to give Marvel a “Batman”, if anything they already had one in billionaire genius Tony Stark. He collaborated with Len Wein to cement the final details over a phone call in early 1975. Moon Knight was the brainchild of Doug Moench, prolific Marvel writer at the time. Only the extremely high grades will reap the initial reward. While the books should enjoy permanent increased value there will be a settling period after things calm down. Buyer beware when purchasing in a hype driven market. However to understand how dramatically the book has increased let’s look at 2009 when the book was bringing less than $75! That is nearly 15x the money! Low grade books were so valueLESS they weren’t being tracked back in 2009 but now a GD 2.0 will run between $300 and $400. You can still grab mid grade books (FN 6.0) around $1,100 currently. The ship has sailed on getting the high grade books “cheap” but there is still potential for growth given the current landscape. In October of 2019 a lower grade NM+ 9.6 brought $12,000 showing the huge growth of the character’s overall value. There are very few recorded sales of this book in 9.8 but it jumped from $3,000 in 2013 to $14,500 in 2015. Compare that to 119 of Wolverine’s first appearance and one might say that the current value of this book is low in comparison. There are only 19 registered copies of Werewolf by Night #32 in NM/MT 9.8. What's Werewolf By Night #32 worth in 2023? There are very collectible key issues within this run - in particular issues #32 and #33, which are the introduction and first 2 appearances by the wildly popular hero MOON KNIGHT! Werewolf by Night was published for 43 issues and ran through March 1977. He is vulnerable to magical attacks and, like all werewolves, he can be killed by weapons made of silver, due to its inherent mystical 'purity'.Ĭonway described working on the series as 'a lot of fun' because the horror genre made a refreshing change from the superhero stories that had been the staple of mainstream comics for years. Though he can be severely wounded, he recovers from non-fatal wounds much faster than a human would. The Werewolf is resistant to many forms of conventional injury and very difficult to kill by conventional means.

He has razor-sharp teeth and claws that are able to render light metals. He possesses a superhuman sense of smell, which carries over to his human form. In this form, he possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility and reflexes.

#Moon knight in werewolf by night full

Through a series of events, he is also capable of mutating voluntarily outside of the full moon, at which time he remains in control of himself.Īs a werewolf, Jack gains the proportionate physical advantages of a nearly 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) wolf. Making his debut in Marvel Spotlight #2 - #4 in 1971, and, proving popular, then moved to his own title in 1972, this werewolf was in fact Jacob “Jack” Russell (yup, a dog breed - coincidence?) Russell came from a lineage of werewolves, his father Gregor Russoff relocated his family to Los Angeles from Transylvania, giving his son an anglicised last name Russell, and giving his alias, Werewolf By Night a decidedly modern, American bent.ĭuring the night of the full moon and the two nights surrounding it he is forced to mutate into a werewolf, a large, powerful form which is a hybrid of human and wolf, and loses his human intellect. The series name was suggested by Stan Lee and the initial creative team was Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog, who worked from a plot by Roy and Jean Thomas for the first issue. To be fair, this version is not “The Wolfman”, really, as he was not connected to previous cinematic incarnations of the character. Continuing to follow the monster craze of the 70’s, Marvel again decided to put it’s stamp on another iconic character by re-imagining him as an anti-hero/superhero, which was their bread-and-butter.