Cloak and Dagger First Appearance: Spectacular #64 Value

Cloak and Dagger were introduced together in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64, cover-dated March 1982, created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Ed Hannigan (Wikipedia). In that story the pair become vigilantes and hunt down the drug ring of Simon Marshall, the criminal chemist whose experiment gave them their powers.

PriceCharting values for The Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (1982), based on recorded sales, retrieved September 25, 2026:

• Ungraded: $44.07
• CGC 4.0: $30.56
• CGC 6.0: $60.53
• CGC 8.0: $84.50
• CGC 9.2: $93.97
• CGC 9.8: $392.88

Recent CGC 9.8 sales in PriceCharting's log were $500 (February 2026), $450 (April 2026) and $420 (June 2026). The newsstand edition is tracked separately and was listed at $50.45 ungraded on the same date. Below 9.8 the price rises slowly, so compare these gaps with CGC grading fees before you submit a mid-grade copy.

Tyrone "Ty" Johnson was a 17-year-old runaway from Boston with a stutter; Tandy Bowen was a 16-year-old from a well-off family in Shaker Heights, Ohio. They met as runaways in New York City, were kidnapped and handed to Simon Marshall, a chemist working for the Maggia crime organization, and his experimental drug activated their powers instead of killing them (Wikipedia).

• Cloak: his body is a living portal to the Darkforce Dimension, which he uses to teleport himself and others. He has a constant hunger that only light satisfies, and people trapped in his darkness feel a numbing cold and see their worst nightmares.
• Dagger: she throws "light daggers" of Lightforce from her fingertips that can heal or harm, and fights with her ballet training.

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (1982): first appearance.
• Cloak and Dagger #1-4 (1983): four-issue limited series starting October 1983.
• Cloak and Dagger vol. 2 #1-11 (1985): a bi-monthly ongoing series; after #11 Marvel merged it with Doctor Strange into a monthly Strange Tales double feature.
• Later runs: Cloak and Dagger vol. 5 #1-3 (2018) and Cloak and Dagger: Negative Exposure #1-3 (2019).

Sources: Wikipedia and Comic Book Reading Orders. They also guest in Amazing Spider-Man, Runaways and other titles, so a Cloak and Dagger cover does not by itself mean a key issue.

Marvel Television made a Cloak & Dagger series for Freeform that ran from 2018 to 2019, starring Aubrey Joseph as Tyrone and Olivia Holt as Tandy. It moved the story to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and changed the origin to involve a Roxxon Gulf oil platform (Wikipedia).

• Indicia: the small print on the first page or inside cover gives the title, issue number, date and publisher; reprints and facsimiles say so there.
• Cover price and barcode: a price or barcode that did not exist in the cover year means a later edition.
• Paper: decades-old newsprint tans at the edges; bright white pages on an old date are a warning sign.
• Restoration: color touch, trimmed edges and replaced covers are common on expensive keys; a grading service such as CGC or CBCS can detect them.
• Newsstand or direct: PriceCharting lists the newsstand edition of #64 separately; the barcode box on the cover tells you which one you have.

Shoot the front cover flat and straight on in even light, then the indicia and the back cover. The cover title is Spectacular Spider-Man, not Cloak and Dagger, so make sure the issue number 64 and the barcode area are sharp. ComicLens reads the title, issue number and cover art from the photo, and there are free scans every day.

Research and drafting were assisted by AI and checked line by line against the sources listed on this page. Prices are the figures shown by the named source on the date given; they change with the market.