Cloak and Dagger #1 [Direct]
(October 1983)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-06-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics, 1981 series) #28 (August 1983), with shipping date of 1983-06-28.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Cloak and Dagger / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rick Leonardi (signed as Leonardi)
Inks
Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Novak ? (logo design, see notes)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Dagger [Tandy Bowen]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The possible logo design credit from Todd Klein and Ken Bruzenak via Todd's Facebook posting Comics Logos C #70: CLOAK AND DAGGER on 4 September 2021. Others speculated previously that Bruzenak was the logo designer, but Bruzenak confirmed per Klein that he did not create this logo.

Chapter One: The Priest (Table of Contents: 1)

Cloak and Dagger / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo (credited); Ed Hannigan (credited) (co-creator, see notes)
Pencils
Rick Leonardi (credited); Ed Hannigan (sketches, see notes)
Inks
Terry Austin (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hey Father -- why so gloomy?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Dagger [Tandy Bowen]; Detective Brigid O'Rielly; Father Francis Xavier Delgado; Jerry (death); Alice; Dixie; Carlo
Synopsis
Cloak and Dagger ask Father Delgado for Sanctuary.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story is divided into chapters.
Chapter Two: The Detective (3 pages)
Chapter Three: Faith (3 pages)
Chapter Four: Hope (3 pages)
Chapter Five: Charity (7 pages)
Epilogue: The Church (1 page)

Ed Hannigan credited as co-creator. The whole issue was sketched by Hannigan. The sketches were reprinted in Marvel Age and in Ed Hannigan: Covered (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]

Star Frontiers (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Star Frontiers; TSR / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Cloak and Dagger
  2. 1. Chapter One: The Priest
    Cloak and Dagger
  3. 2. Star Frontiers
    Star Frontiers; TSR
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ken Austin
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore