#doug moench

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Cover to Moon Knight No. 29

by Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz

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“Just a boy good at heart, more brave than a man... Too brave to become a man. Just a boy, his parents felled in blood, his own life ripped and torn from the world he protected. Just a boy, but never to breathe, speak, or move again. Just a boy, but far too brave to face the stark, lurid madness of a grinning killer. Just a boy...dead...but to his killer, nothing more but a sick joke ! Just a boy... but forever gone”

Doug Moench, jaybin writer of all time

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PLANET OF THE APES comic #1, Curtis Publishing (Marvel Comics) August 1974, cover art by Bob Larkin

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House ad for Six from Sirius 2, 4-issue miniseries, December 1985-March 1986, by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy

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Batman #497

GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY CAGEEEEEEEE

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Bruce and Jason discuss the legacy of Robin

I've posted the moment of handover from the first Dick Grayson passes the Robin mantle on to Jason Todd v1 (also a former circus acrobat remember) more than a few times...

And I have no regrets! :)

But I forget the next sequence of pages from Batman #368 are also fascinating, as writer Doug Moench and artists Don Newton and Alfred Alcala have Jason and Bruce seriously discuss what becoming Robin might mean.

It's hard to remember over 40 years, and a half dozen Robin's later, how unprecedented and significant a move Jason becoming Robin was.

At the time it was utterly unheard of for an established character to change identities, still less Dick Grayson, the first kid sidekick, and one of the best know costumed superheroes in pop culture thanks to the 1966 TV series being on reruns around the world, to give up their identity.

Jason has just realised what is happening here, REALLY happening here and is having a slight panic as it sinks in that HE is now the legendary "Robin, the Boy Wonder".

Bruce acknowledges this, and his reply is intense, but not inhumanly so. He knows he's talking to a kid (and his new ward/son) here and adjusts accordingly. Note how specific he is to not dismiss the work of Jason and his parents as circus performers.

And so the new Dynamic Duo truly begins!

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1978's Master of Kung Fu Vol.1 #67 cover by cover artist Paul Gulacy.

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The last episode of the Moon Knight mini-series aired on May 4, 2022. The mini-series ran for 6 episodes. The episode won an award in sound editing. ("Gods and Monsters", Moon Knight, MCU TV Event)