Mar 1985
A three part story, all written by Bill Mantlo but each part of the story is drawn by a different team; and for the first time in this collection no Spider-Man
Such Sweet Sorrow...
By Bill Mantlo and Tony Salmons
- C&D save a drug addict who is about to die from an overdose and punish the drug pusher who gave him the lethal hit
- ends with Dagger saying she wants to strike out on her own, try to be normal again
- She promises to return to Cloak, he wistfully watches her leave
- so-so, this feels like similar ground from prior stories
Dancin' the Night Away!
By Bill Mantlo, Rick Leonardi, Terry Austin
- Dagger goes to a discotheque, tries dancing the night away, meets and dances with a man (Jack) who unbeknownst to her works for the mob (drug dealer) and knocks her out when she's least expecting it
- Cloak angry and anxious looks for his partner, busts up a party where people are doing coke
- this is the artwork I came for, my favorite in this collection with the possible exception of the next chapter
- the two page sequence of Dagger dancing
- last panel on p 15 of faces of people mesmerized by her dancing
- the way Cloak's cape billows
- p 18 especially the 4th panel
Dagger's Light
By Bill Mantlo, Kerry Gammill, and George Freeman
-Jack delivers Dagger (still unconscious) to his Uncle Sandino who rewards him; but then Dagger wakes up and creates havoc
- Cloak sees Dagger's light from a distance as she fights the gangsters and comes to her
- they need one another, they feed off of one another's energy
- up until now Cloak has felt this need to feed his hunger which Dagger satisfies best; here it is explicitly shown that Dagger has a similar need which he satisfies best
- Art-wise it runs a very close second to the previous chapter, or maybe it is more of a toss-up between the two
- Dagger dancing as she fights the gangsters
- p 24 panel 3 - Uncle Sandino's jacket fading into a memory of C&D
6/15
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