The Spectacular Spider-Man #64 [Direct]

(March 1982)

Cloak and Dagger! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo (credited as Mantlo)

Pencils

Ed Hannigan (credited as Hannigan)

Inks

Al Milgrom (erroneously credited to Jim Mooney)

Colors

Bob Sharen (credited as Sharen)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited as Rosen)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Quiet night!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Cloak [Tyrone Johnson] (introduction, origin in flashback); Dagger [Tandy Bowen] (introduction, origin in flashback); Simon Marshall (villain, death, also in flashback); Joey Tartaglione (villain, death, also in flashback); Four mobsters (villain, death, also in flashback); Frank (policeman); Mack Stennet

Synopsis

Spider-Man tries to stop Cloak and Dagger from getting to Simon Marshall, an ex-pharmacist turned drug runner. Dagger kills Marshall and the duo escape. Peter Parker learns that Marshall was testing experimental drugs on runaway kids for the mob. On Ellis Island, where the mob was testing the experimental drugs, Cloak and Dagger tell Spider-Man that they were the only runaways to survive and the drugs somehow gave them powers. Cloak manages to kill the mob members involved with the experimentation.

Reprints

• in Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch (Condor, 1979 series) #16
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #62 (5 mars 1983) [Moins/Minus 3 pages]
• in Edderkoppen (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #9/1983 ([august] 1983)
• in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #9/1983 ([September] 1983)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #278 (21 de agosto de 1985)
• in L'Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #15 (Luglio 1988)
• in Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2007) [black and white]
• in Cloak & Dagger: Crime and Punishment (Marvel, 2012 series) [premiere edition] (2012)
• in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #52 - Peter Parker, El Espectacular Spiderman: Noches de Nueva York (Marzo 2014)
• in Cloak and Dagger: Shadows and Light (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
• in Cloak and Dagger Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Interior inks erroneously credited to Jim Mooney, but are actually by Al Milgrom. This information confirmed 2007 by Al Milgrom.

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Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

The Deciding Factor! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Captain America / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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Spectacular Spider-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

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Letters

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A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Dungeons & Dragons / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)