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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published March 1982
Cover Price 0.75
Pages 36
Editing Denny O'Neil

Cover Details

Characters Moon Knight
Genre superhero
Pencils Denys Cowan
Inks Joe Jusko (painted finished art)
Colors Joe Jusko (painted)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Essential Moon Knight #2 (2007)

22 page Moon Knight story "Master Sniper's Legacy!"

Characters FEATURE: Moon Knight; GUESTS: Frenchie; Marlene Alraune; VILLAINS: Nimrod Strange; Master Sniper (Death); Yumi; Assigi [called Jeesala]; Sheena [called Sonia]
Synopsis One of Spector's oldest spy friends contacts him about taking a secret package that exposes Nimord Strange and his organization to Switzerland but Marc refuses; That is, until this friend is killed in his own house by Strange's deadly assassin the Master Sniper; After he takes the Sniper down, Marc visits his friend's grieving widow in Israel and agrees to carry on his work.
Genre superhero
Script Doug Moench
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Steve Mitchell
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Janice Chiang
Notes Strange's trio of beautiful and deadly women are called by different names for this issue only; In one panel, Nimrod Strange is accidentally called "Hugo Strange" which would be fine if this were a Batman comic, but it isn't.
Reprinted In Essential Moon Knight #2 (2007)

9 page Spector: Mercenary! story "The Worship of False Idols"

Characters FEATURE: Marc Spector
Synopsis Marc endures great peril and hardship to recover a "valuable" Incan statue.
Genre superhero
Script Doug Moench
Pencils Denys Cowan
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Janice Chiang
Reprinted In Essential Moon Knight #2 (2007)