Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #0–5 begins shortly after Marc Spector’s heroic sacrifice and resurrection. In the preceding “Last Days of Moon Knight” arc, Marc died stopping a city-wide threat, and his allies freed Khonshu to bring him back to life. Issue #0 serves as a prelude, reuniting Marc with his Midnight Mission team (Tigra, Reese, Hunter’s Moon, 8-Ball, and others) and reestablishing their nocturnal mission. With the moon god Khonshu now free from his prison, he once again looms large over his avatar. Marc – balancing his personas as Moon Knight and the suited “Mr. Knight” – dives back into protecting “travelers of the night” alongside his allies. But a new threat quickly emerges in New York’s underworld: a mysterious street drug called “Glitter,” which turns out to be literal fairy dust that is highly addictive and deadly to its users. Investigating this menace, Moon Knight encounters the drug’s supplier – Achilles Fairchild, a ruthless crime boss – and issues a stern warning in their first confrontation at a nightclub, which ends in a tense stalemate. Meanwhile, Marc’s allies uncover that a corrupt NYPD detective (Frazier) is secretly on Fairchild’s payroll, as an ex-cop friend (Detective Flint) helps reveal the villain’s influence within the police. This opening act sets the stage: Marc Spector is back from the dead, leading the Midnight Mission in a “new era” against an insidious foe operating at the intersection of crime and the supernatural.
Over the next few issues (#1–4), the conflict escalates on both the streets and within Marc’s circle. Moon Knight and his team wage war on Fairchild’s glitter trade, only to discover how formidable and organized this new enemy is. Marc (with Hunter’s Moon and 8-Ball) busts a Glitter shipment, clashing with Fairchild’s henchmen – including a pheromone-wielding villain called Cubist – but the gang’s operations prove resilient. To counter the fairy-dust’s magical properties, Marc even seeks help from the Avengers’ orbiting base: he consults Tony Stark, who directs him to a brilliant scientist (recently seen in Avengers Inc.) to devise an antidote. This cameo underlines Moon Knight’s ties to the wider Marvel Universe – an Avenger is now aiding the once-outcast Fist of Khonshu. The scientist ally (who has a complicated history with Tigra) works on neutralizing the drug, but Fairchild strikes back before the heroes can gain the upper hand. In a brutal retaliatory move, Fairchild’s gang attacks Moon Knight’s base, the mystical Midnight Mission house, effectively razing Marc’s sanctuary and forcing his scattered allies into hiding. Reeling from these defeats, Marc grows increasingly isolated and desperate. He’s haunted by the knowledge that being Khonshu’s avatar has a heavy cost – each time Khonshu resurrects him, Marc retains gruesome scars as eternal “lessons” from the god. Burdened by this immortality and fearing for his friends’ safety, Marc begins to push his closest allies (especially Tigra) away emotionally. This creates tension within the group – even as Tigra and Reese try to hold the Midnight Mission together in Marc’s downward spiral, their partnership frays under the strain of vampire attacks and police pressure. Through these issues, the arc not only delivers gritty action but also explores Marc Spector’s psyche: his guilt over dying and returning, his rekindled servitude to Khonshu, and the struggle to reconcile his “multitudes” of personas with the man his allies need him to be.
Issue #5 delivers an explosive climax and a game-changing revelation that ripples through Moon Knight’s lore. With his team wounded and out of options, Marc challenges Achilles Fairchild to a final one-on-one showdown, determined to end the threat at any cost. The fight – staged like a no-holds-barred boxing match – sees Moon Knight unleash all of Khonshu’s wrath upon the crime lord, fueled by the pain and scars of each past resurrection emblazoned on his body. Yet Fairchild endures the onslaught with uncanny resilience. In a stunning twist, he reveals the secret behind his strength: everything Marc knows about his backstory is true, except the location. Fairchild did grow up as a simple farm boy, but his farm was in Asgard – he is actually an Asgardian living on Earth. This bombshell explains why Moon Knight’s “unstoppable force” finally met an “immovable object”. It elevates the stakes from street crime to mythology, pitting Khonshu’s resurrected champion against a foe with godly heritage. The arc’s finale thus connects to broader Marvel lore – the collision of Egyptian and Norse mythologies – and even recalls how Khonshu himself was previously imprisoned by Asgard’s heroes. In the end, Fist of Khonshu reestablishes Moon Knight’s place in Marvel continuity with high stakes and lasting consequences. Marc Spector is alive again and back in action, but now more bound to Khonshu than ever, carrying the literal and figurative scars of servitude. The introduction of new elements – from the deadly fairy-dust drug Glitter to allies and enemies drawn from other corners of Marvel (Tony Stark’s intervention, a Spider-Man-centric backup story with Khonshu’s influence, and an Asgardian crime lord as the villain) – shows how this arc both follows from Moon Knight’s past and meaningfully expands his world. It directly builds on previous continuity (the Vengeance of the Moon Knight fallout and Marc’s sacrificial death while charting a bold new direction: Moon Knight is once again the Fist of Khonshu, now facing mystical new adversaries and reconciling his role as an immortal protector in the wider Marvel Universe.
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