The story Mantlo put together after his trip was his first submission for Peter Parker and, he felt, the best story he'd ever written. The characters embodied the "fear, hunger and longing" he felt there Cloak is able to banish people to the "Dark Dimension" through a portal within his cloak, and Dagger produces shards of solid light which can be used as weapons or to feed Cloak's eternal hunger (which can only be otherwise fed with living beings.) He conceived Cloak and Dagger as supporting characters for the latter, and recounted that the duo's backstory and abilities came to him "fully formed" while on a trip to Ellis Island. Bill Mantlo is one of the quirkier writers in Marvel history, having worked on titles like ROM: Spaceknight and Micronauts before being assigned to write a couple of Marvel's more popular titles- The Incredible Hulk and Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man.
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