Moon Knight Fact — November 2, 2026

Today's Fact

Every long feud has a worst night. This one kept the receipt and wore it.

MOON KNIGHT CARVED BUSHMAN’S FACE OFF WITH A CRESCENT DART — THEN KHONSHU STARTED VISITING HIM WEARING THAT FACELESS FACE!

The Featured Fact

The Moon Knight–Bushman feud did not end with an arrest. In a rooftop flashback in Moon Knight Vol. 5 #2 (2006), by Charlie Huston and David Finch, Marc Spector — dropped from the roof, his legs already a ruin — threw a crescent dart into Raoul Bushman’s back, dragged himself within reach, and used the blade to carve the mercenary’s face clean off. He held the skin up toward the moon and asked Khonshu if it was enough.

It bought no closure at all; it issued an invitation. In the missions that followed, Khonshu began appearing to Spector in the shape of the faceless Bushman — a god delivering orders through the worst thing his fist had ever done, worn as a speaking mask. Every divine instruction for a long stretch of that series arrived wearing the evidence.

Marvel has never quietly retconned the moment away. Later runs keep circulating the receipt: Zodiac taunted Moon Knight about face-cutting in Moon Knight Vol. 8 #6 (2021), and in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #1 (2022) Spector joked to Spider-Man mid-team-up, “You hug me, I’ll slice your face off.” The grossest kill in his history remains canon, remains current, and remains the first item his enemies raise in cross-examination.

Why It's Obscure

The panel everyone assumes must have been undone by now. It was not undone. It was promoted to recurring guest star.

The steel grin

Intimidation, installed early — Bushman prepared for menace long before that rooftop: he wore a death’s-head tattoo across his face and fought with sharpened steel teeth, both on open display in today’s gallery portrait.

The Bottom

An arc named honestly — Huston and Finch’s 2006 storyline is called The Bottom because the face-carving sits inside a total collapse that also cost Spector his knees, his fortune and Marlene.

The witness stand

Still litigated on-panel — in a recent Midnight Mission scene, Reese holds up one of his crescent darts and asks what he used to do to people; his entire defense is “all those things — and more,” as today’s gallery page shows.

Resurrection clause

Death was a sabbatical — the Hood later brought Bushman back, and he returned in Vengeance of the Moon Knight driven mad: in this feud, even a face and a funeral turn out to be negotiable.

Gallery

Comic art of Moon Knight, his crescent dart, and the enemy whose face became Marvel legend.

Moon Knight in his white costume gripping a crescent dart — **“The weapon”** Moon Knight with a crescent dart in hand — the small, ordinary-looking blade that ended the Bushman feud in the least ordinary way available to it.

Comic page of Mr. Knight talking with Reese about a crescent dart and his past — **“All those things”** A Midnight Mission page built entirely around this history: Reese produces one of his crescent darts, asks about the stories, and Mr. Knight confirms every one of them.

Bushman grinning with his death’s-head face markings and steel teeth, flames behind him — **“The face in question”** Bushman before the rooftop: the death’s-head markings across his face and the sharpened steel teeth are both plainly visible — the most recognizable face in Moon Knight’s rogues’ gallery, which is exactly why its removal became legend.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Moon Knight’s Darkest Kill Is Too Gruesome For The MCU — Screen RantScreen Rant’s account of Moon Knight #2 (2006) details the rooftop fight, the crescent dart thrown into Bushman’s back, and the face carved off as an offering to Khonshu.
Raoul Bushman — Moon Knight WikiThe character wiki records the rooftop killing and its aftermath: Khonshu thereafter visiting Spector in the form of the faceless Bushman as a reminder of his greatest work.
Marvel Confirms The Grossest Moon Knight Kill Is Somehow Still Canon — Screen RantScreen Rant documents the Black, White & Blood #1 scene in which Spector’s own joke to Spider-Man confirms the Bushman kill remains canon.