Nothing is known of Raoul Bushman's
past before he led a team of mercenary soldiers fighting
rebel forces in the Sudan south of the Egyptian border.
Bushman's second-in-command at this time was the American
soldier of fortune Marc Spector. Appalled by Bushman's
atrocities in battle, Spector resolved to leave his employ.
Learning that the archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune,
Sr. had discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Seti III near
the town of Selima, Bushman decided to attack the town
and steal whatever treasure Alraune had found. Fearing
that Bushman would melt down the artifacts he had unearthed
for their gold. Alraune attempted to kill him. Spector
stopped Dr. Alraune, but then was sickened when Bushman
savagely murdered the archaeologist. Spector found Alraune's
daughter Marlene and told her to get to safety. Later,
Spector angrily protested when Bushman had innocent civilians
in Selima slaughtered. Bushman knocked Spector unconscious
and left him in the desert to die.
Regaining consciousness, Spector wandered through
the desert, by seeming chance, approached Pharaoh Seti
III's tomb. There Spector was found on the brink of death
by some of Dr. Alraune's workers. They brought him into
the tomb. Spector was suffering from such great heat exhaustion
that his heart stopped, and one of the workers pronounced
him dead. While Marlene Alraune watched over him, Spector
revived. He attributed his seeming resurrection to the
Egyptian moon god Khonshu, whose statue stood nearby.
Spector draped himself in a cloak he took from the statue
and declared himself the moon's knight of vengeance. In
this new guise Spector defeated Bushman's forces.
Spector and Marlene Alraune returned to America,
where he became the costumed crimefighter Moon Knight
and they became lovers. Moon Knight later battled Bushman
in America, defeating him both times.
Since then, Bushman has become a general and president
for life of the African country of Burunda. He clashed
with Moon Knight on several occasions.
