Marc Spector Sparknotes

Marc Spector was the son of a Jewish rabbi whose family had fled Europe in the 1930s to escape the Holocaust. Marc saw his father as a coward for refusing to fight When his people were persecuted. Refusing his father's faith, Marc started out as a boxer before he eventually joined the U.S. Marines where he was trained as a commando. However, his skills in the field led to his recruitment into the Central Intelligence Agency where he worked with William Cross and his brother, Randall Spector. However, Randall betrayed the CIA by secretly smuggling and selling weapons. Marc’s lover discovered this and tried to turn him in, but she could Randall murdered her with a meat cleaver. Filled with rage Marc hunted down Randall, but during the fight Randall
Then in Selima, Sudan, they stumbled across excavation of an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb. Believing there was gold and riches within, Bushman murdered Dr. Peter Alraune who was the archaeologist at the site and began to plunder the tomb. Horrified Marc tried to and help Alraune's daughter, and helped her escape Raoul. Angry with Marc's betrayal, Bushman brutally beat Spector and abandoned him in the desert so that he would suffer before he died. Barely sensible, Spector staggered to the ancient tomb for shelter. Marc rested near a statue of the moon god, Khonshu. Weakened from his fight with Bushman and the elements of the desert, Marc Spector died. However, Spector suddenly came back to life claiming that he had a vision that Khonshu had brought him back from the dead to be the Moon's Knight of Vengeance giving him supernatural strength and powers that heightened with the light of the moon. Spector removed the burial shroud from the statue of Khonshu and wrapped it around himself as a cloak before he confronted Bushman once again and this time, he was victorious and thus Moon Knight was