Moon Knight: Black Spectre

As I've bored about before, as well as being maybe the last great superhero of the Bronze Age, Moon Knight always felt to me like the superhero for grown-ups.
We were all rapidly approaching adulthood, and Doug Moench was telling us that was a scary place we were about to walk into.
And Bill Sienkiewicz' art, particularly in this issue, looked like the rabid scratchings of inmates on the wall of the asylum. This series was very definitely a step up, and I don't believe ever really gets the credit it deserves.
Like the logical extension of the superheroes with problems trope, Moon Knight really had problems, like schizophrenia, manic depression and a constant lack of self-worth.
Still he was mega- rich and had the super hot Marlene waiting at home, so y' know, swings and roundabouts.
Herein, Moonie teeters over, and nearly falls into that precipice he was always on the edge of ( and which lesser writers than Moench gleefully pushed him over ).
Like a lot of issues in this initial series, Doug takes an old plot, in this case the villain that's a mirror image of the hero, and delves deep into the psychology of a man who tries to repair his life by pushing all that pain onto another, in this case Moon Knight.
These are real people hurting themselves, and each other, in every way possible.
Just a comic book, by the way.

Moon Knight: Hit It!

From the tail end of the Bronze Age, here's a bit of a lost masterpiece from the original series of Moon Knight. Although I've enjoyed the lunar crusader's deeply weird new run, and think it's probably the best thing Marvel are publishing at the moment, there's really only one Moon Knight series, and it's the one by Doug Moench & Bill Sienkiewicz.
MK was always a grown-up's superhero book, going down some very dark corners of the mind long before it became fashionable, and this is one of the best pieces. It's less of a story than a statement.