(Please go easy on me guys, this is my first time writing something like this)
The original Doug Moench Moon Knight run, from it's inception as a story in The Hulk! magazine, to it's final issue pre-cancellation.
A fascinating glimpse at an era where bronze-age stylings of Marvel and DC books, already darker and more socially conscious than the silver-age, were starting to give way to the more "mature" stuff that would be made the de-facto standard by people like Frank Miller and Alan Moore a couple of years later - perhaps best encapsulated by the charming words used to describe love interest Marlene in The Hulk magazine #11:
The Hulk! shipping as a magazine rather than a comic book meant it didn't get slapped with a Comics Code Authority stamp, so it could get away with racier stuff like that.
So yeah, a lot of you will probably have heard of Moon Knight, but here's a basic summary of him for those who haven't: violent for-hire mercenary Marc Spector gets shot and "dies" at the foot of a statue of an Egyptian death god by the name of Khonshu. He undergoes what (in this run, at least) is left as an ambiguous transformation - either he survived the gunshot, but his blood-deprived mind made him hallucinate being possessed by Khonshu, or he actually died, and was actually brought back to life to serve Khonshu.
Thus is born the night-time vigilante Moon Knight. Also, his alter-ego, Steven Grant, the rich philanthropist, created using the money Marc Spector earnt as a mercenary - he lives in a grand mansion with a butler and a private driver (Marc Spector's old ally, a Frenchman known as Frenchie), and acts as a more respectable mask than Spector, who Moon Knight/Steven Grant does his best to keep buried deep down because he is deeply ashamed of his past self.
He also has a fourth personality, Jake Lockley, the friendly New York cabbie, whom he uses to roam around the streets in incognito mode.
Does this sound like a man with a personality disorder? Yeah, he kind of is. It's never entirely clear which of Steven, Spector or Moon Knight is truly in control (Jake is pretty benevolent, only appearing when needed), and the most fascinating parts of the book story-wise are the ones that focus on the relationship of the four rotating "characters", each of whom regularly refers to the others as separate entities.
^ Some insight into the various personalities. Notice how Steven Grant refers to the group of personalities as "they" in the top right there, and talks about Moon Knight in third person in panel 3.
He also has a fascinating supporting cast - there's Marlene, who was there at the creation of Moon Knight under Khonshu, and becomes his live-in girlfriend throughout Moench's run, Crawley, the vaguely British-accented street bum with aspirations of grandeur whose connections in the New York underworld Moon Knight uses as a spy network, Gina, the owner of Jake Lockley's favourite diner, and the aforementioned Frenchie, Spector's old ally who drives both his cars and also his faithful helicopter. Good as the superheroics of the story are, it's Moon Knight's interactions with these characters that are one of the highlights here. Each is more familiar with a different aspect of the central star - Marlene met Spector but is truly in love with Steven, Crawley and Gina know Lockley best and Frenchie knew Marc Spector for many years.
Crawley in a nutshell.
So yeah, enough rambling about the cast, onto the stories - there are some ongoing threads (Steven and Marlene's relationship and the conflict that arises from the multiple personalities) but the majority of the series is focused on one or two-issue storylines (with maybe one that spans three), varying from turf disputes among inner city gangs to the machinations of an African terrorist warlord to a mystic conspiracy clan trying to bring about the apocalypse via capturing a werewolf.
There's one story, about an aristocratic jewel thief that Moon Knight defeated in a previous issue coming back to take his revenge, which brings to the fore what is probably the main draw on this book for me, moreso even than the multiple personalities of Marc Spector or the wonderful supporting cast, and that is Bill Sienkiewicz's wonderful artwork:
Just bloody LOOK at that! The inventive use of the classic 9-panel grid, three years before Watchmen started doing the same thing! The sense of movement! The increasing desperation in his opponent's body language! The spirals!
Seriously. Sienkiwiecz is probably better known for his later work on New Mutants but this is where he really shines for me.
Here's some more wonderful Sienkiwiecz (apparently it's pronunced "sin-keh-vitch") work:
Tastefully brutal violence.
An excerpt from issue #26, "Hit It", probably Moench and Sienkiewicz' finest moment.
Explosions!
So yeah. Beautiful-looking book. Fascinating cast. Plotting of admittedly mixed quality but almost always elevated by the quality of the art and the charisma of the central characters. Highly recommended, one of my favourite superhero runs from the 80s.