Cloak & Dagger: the first years

Set Description
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After their first appearance in SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #64 (3/82), their second appearance in SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #69-70 (8-9/82) and their third appearance in SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #81-82 (8-9/83), Cloak & Dagger where finally ready to star in their very own Limited Series.

Writer and co-creator Bill Mantlo was joined by artist Rick Leonardi and inker Terry Austin, who would do some of the best work in their careers, on this very series.

In the Spider-man stories, Cloak & Dagger had kind of the same role as The Punisher before them. Their would form a temporary alliance with Spider-man in order to bring criminals to justice with focus on drug lords including Silvermane and the Kingpin. These were fantastic action stories, but it was also clear, that Bill Mantlo had more and deeper stories to tell about these two teenage mutant vigilantes.
And therefore this mini series, that culminates in issue four with a longer and more in-depth version of their origin story.

This Limited Series was reprinted in a collected edition ( Hardcover ): "CLOAK & DAGGER: CHILD OF DARNESS, CHILD OF LIGHT." Published 2009.

Note: a variant of this was the MARVEL PREMIERE CLASSIC LIBERY EDITION vol. 23 with in slightly different cover.
Also published 2009.

If you like Cloak & Dagger, I recommend getting hold of MARVEL AGE #6 ( september 1983 ). This issue contain the 3-page article: "Cloak & Dagger: the creation of a new limited series." Here writer Bill Mantlo tells about how he got the idea for Cloak & Dagger. Furthermore this issue have a very nice Cloak & Dagger cover by Rick Leonardi, exclusively made for this issue.

I also recommend the Cloak & Dagger portfolio from 1984. This contains 10 very nice plates ( 14" x 10" ) with art by Rick Leonardi, inks by Terry Austin and colors by Glynis Wein.

The first Cloak & Dagger Limited Series was a succes, so next step was to give the two teenage vigilantes their own bi-monthly book. The great creative team of Bill Mantlo (writer), Rick Leonardi (artist) and Terry Austin (inker) did the first four issues and they where great.
After that, the quality of the book quickly declined and sadly Cloak & Dagger never really reached the same high level again.

A Cloak & Dagger TV-show is currently in the works at Freeform. Let´s hope it will do justice to these fantastic characters.

Enjoy your comics :)
Best regards - Sage121

Set Goals
To celebrate the first years of Cloak & Dagger.