Editing Cloak and Dagger (characters) (section)

==Concept and creation==
The inspiration for Cloak and Dagger came to [[Bill Mantlo]] after a visit to [[Ellis Island]]. He recounted, "They came in the night, when all was silent and my mind was blank. They came completely conceived as to their powers and attributes, their origin and motivation. They embodied between them all that fear and misery, hunger and longing that had haunted me on Ellis Island."<ref name="back45">{{cite journal|last= Shayer|first= Jason V.|date= December 2010|title= Cloak and Dagger: Child of Light and Child of Darkness|journal= [[Back Issue!]]|issue= #45|pages= 67–75|publisher= [[TwoMorrows Publishing]]}}</ref>

[[Ed Hannigan]], Mantlo's artist collaborator on ''[[Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', recalled that he and Mantlo jointly came up with the characters' visual design: "Bill had a short page or two synopsis of the story that he showed me, and we discussed what the characters would look like. He gave me a lot of leeway, but it was fairly obvious that Cloak would be black and have a big 'animated' black cloak and Dagger would be white with a skintight leotard-type thing. I am not sure, but I think I might have come up with her ballet angle. I put the same kind of amulet/clasp on both costumes and came up with the dagger-shaped cutout on her costume, which was quite daring at the time."<ref name="back45"/>