" Moon Knight and Bats have very little in common aside from their apparel.   For the record; MK > Azraels. "

OP must have daddy and mommy issues because when did being betrayed by some employer become worst then watching your parents murder in a dirty ally at such a young age? 
 
Funnest thing I ever read on ComicVine.

I'm very much over this whole debate, but I just wanted to say, the only reason people know of any comic character's supporting cast is because of movies, of which Batman has had many, so I don't think that's a good indicator of... anything really.

@firestormnuclerman: how is batman a ripp off of the shadow when he is notthing like him ,he had mind control powers and was a spy ,the whole template for mary sue fighting cowl wearing stealth superheros orginated with batman ,bob kane didnt create batman and he stole art from the shadow ,so to cover his tracks he said he was bassed off of the shadow ,when really they are notting alike,the guy who created moon knight also work on batman comics and its obvious

Batman is bassed on the bat but thats a film not a comic book so it doesnt count

@harlekin: No, he's was just saying how over done that cliche' of the hero's parents or parent being murdered and their death must by avenged. Moon Knight's origin is much more refreshing than that.

@minutemen_64: Well the creator of Moon Knight only started writing for Batman after being fired from Marvel which was common at the time. Basically some idiot who run Marvel at the time wanted all of the writers to ill off every Superhero including Moon Knight and have a new person replacing them but keep their hero identities. He did not write Batman comics before or while creating and writing for Moon Knight. To prove he's not a rip off of Batman here's an exert from an interview with the creator of Moon Knight himself:

The Batman Comparisson

Does it really steam you guys that Moon Knight gets the label as the Marvel version of Batman?

MOENCH: You know, it’s a really odd thing for me because Batman has always been my favorite DC character. But on the other hand, you have to remember that the evolution of Moon Knight is odd. He started out as a villain in “Werewolf by Night.” Right there that dictates several things. If he’s going to be going up against a werewolf he’s gotta be a night character because if they’re going to fight it has to be at night. Right there, night character. Batman’s also a night character, but he was the furthest thing from my mind. What else do you connect to a werewolf? The moon. That spelled out the colors of the costume. Jet and silver. Black and white. All these other things that were focused only on werewolves and has nothing to do with Batman. Some people think of one other thing that Steven Grant is a millionaire and Bruce Wayne is a millionaire. Well don’t forget, Batman doesn’t have three separate identities like Moon Knight does and only one of them is a millionaire. Each one was selected for reasons other than thinking about Batman. The cab driver – I needed someone on the street who could pick up tips, find out what the underworld was up to. The mercenary – that gave him his background and his ability to do globetrotting adventure stories that I wanted to do time to time. And then who pays for all of this? A millionaire with a base to put his helicopter and all that other stuff. But I think the real connection was made when Bill Sienkiewicz took over the art. And Bill, don’t forget, was drawing exactly like Neal Adams who was associated with Batman. And you had actual swipes of Batman poses done by Neal Adams that Bill would throw into Moon Knight and on a subliminal level, it’s like well, this looks like Batman. But it was not meant to be Marvel’s answer to Batman.

Here's the link to the full article:

http://comicfoundry.com/?p=1461

Batman has had the Matches Malone alter ego since the early 70s, an alter ego he uses to pick up tips on the street.

@silent_bomber: Yes but Matches Malone was a gangster and Jake Lockley was a Taxi driver whose friends with a hobo nicknamed Crawley. Crawley would pretend to be a member of a mafia group in order to get info for Jake Lockley aka Marc Spector aka Moon Knight. Jake also has a friend who's a waitress who ease drops on costumer conversations in order to help Moon Knight. And of course Jake himself ease drops on Taxi passenger phone conversation and (before the invention of cell phones) would pay attention to where he was dropping off his suspicious passengers. Moon Knight is a werewolf and monster hunter first before he's gang fighting hero which is why he uses crescent Moon Darts all the time. Back in the 70's guns were not allowed in comics so the creator of Moon Knight scrapped the idea of Silver Bullet guns for Crescent Moon Darts. Going back, Batman rarely uses his Matches Malone persona and only uses it when he needs it. While Moon Knight has multiple personality disorder and always feels the need to go back into being Jake every night even if he doesn't need too.

@ramsthenamecom: why is he called moon KNIGHT than , why knight and not night , like the dark knight, why does he have a moonmobile or what ever it is , batman is a billionaire not a millionaire, just because the creator of moon knight says it's not a ripp off doesn't mean he's telling the truth

@minutemen_64: He's named Moon Knight because he's the Moon's Knight of Vengence and Moon Severnt or Moon Aprentice doesn't sound as cool. Moon Knight only has a themed helicopter because he was a trained pilot back in his mercenary days. It's called, "The Moon Chopter". Moon Knight didn't get his money from his dead parents, he got it from being a top notch mercenary and investing that money. He eventually creates Spector Corp which is an artifact and fine art dealing company. Moon Knight isn't filthy rich though and the comics explain sometimes how much debt he's going through in order to live a rich life style. Moon Knight's name "Marc Spector" came from a friend of Doug Moench who worked in a comic store in NY (he's also Jewish). Doug was inspired to combine Egyptian mythos with all their advanced techinalogy with werewolf bounty hunting and Jack Nicholson. Basically if Jack Nicholson was a superhero he'd be Moon Knight (yes I know he played the Joker but that was later). It was only when Doug Moench quit Marvel and was replace by different writers did Moon Knight start feeling like Batman. None of those writers enjoyed writing for Moon Knight and a few of them were ex Batman writers. It wasn't until 2006 when finally some writer actually cared about Moon Knight and the story match the character. So from 1989 - 2005 Moon Knight comics were pretty much generic which is why Moon Knight got cancelled sometime in the 90's for a little while (bad writers were making him more like Batman to appear to kids because Moon Knight isn't really kid friendly). So no, Moon Knight is not a ripoff of Batman (or at least when Doug Moench wrote for him and skip a few years to 2006).

So many idiots here who don't know about moon knight. I see why this site is hated

hes kinda a ripoff like how

deadpool copied deatshtroke