Just learned that there were some original Moon Knight stories produced in Japan in 1979-80. Don't know if they are Earth-616 or not.
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Moon Knight in Japan
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Re: Moon Knight in Japan
Hmmm...
This one's a little hinky. When I google "gosaka ota moon knight" I get 7 replies. When you go to each of those pages and search for "gosaka" you get nothing.
I'm not seeing how that's associated with Marvel.
This one's a little hinky. When I google "gosaka ota moon knight" I get 7 replies. When you go to each of those pages and search for "gosaka" you get nothing.
I'm not seeing how that's associated with Marvel.
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I'd like to know more about it, too. Marvel did allow the Spider-Man and Hulk mangas back in the 70s, so it's not crazy to think there could have been a Moon Knight manga, too, but I'd want assurances it's not just an obscure self-published fan fic.
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Gosaku Ota ( 桜多吾作 ).Russ Chappell wrote:Hmmm...
This one's a little hinky. When I google "gosaka ota moon knight" I get 7 replies. When you go to each of those pages and search for "gosaka" you get nothing.
I'm not seeing how that's associated with Marvel.
GCD has partial entries for those issues of the magazine, but that's all: https://www.comics.org/series/113180/
Apparently, the Japanese title was 月光騎士(ムーンナイト): "Moonlight Knight (Moon Knight)"Google translation from Japanese wrote: http://spider-man.at.webry.info/200801/article_2.html
"In 1978, Marvel comic, which was aiming for full - scale entry into Japan, has signed a contract with Toei that " Marvel comic characters can be used freely for 3 years" .
Following the "Spider-Man" broadcast on Tokyo Channel 12 (present: TV Tokyo), it was Silver Surfer , 3-D Man and this It is a moon night . "
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In the end, Moon Knight was not turned into a live-action picture, but it was only a series of comic books at the Shogakkan children's magazine "Terreibu-kun" (August 1979 to July 1980. A work, Sakuragu multi-episode.) The image above is 1979 From the December issue).
Looking around, I'm not finding a tremendous amount of information on it. It exists, it was almost certainly licensed (one of the splash page images going around even has "© 1979 Marvel Comics Group" on it!), the chances of it being MU are infinitesimal, not much else.
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Man, I really wish Marvel would publish English translations of these obscure Japanese stories (Moon Knight, Hulk, a few Spider-Man stories that still haven't been translated, X-Men).
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Here's a link to some more info about it, including a spreadsheet with dates and cover images: http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/forums/v ... 39#p149639