Blackout (comics)

Blackout
Blackout, Marcus Daniels
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Nova #19 (May 1978)
Created by	Marv Wolfman Carmine Infantino Tom Palmer
In-story information
Alter ego	Marcus Daniels
Team affiliations	Masters of Evil Thunderbolts
Partnerships	Baron Zemo Moonstone
Abilities	Darkforce manipulation Energy blasts Portal creation Flight

Blackout
Blackout. Art by Leinil Francis Yu.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Ghost Rider #2 (June 1990)
Created by	Howard Mackie Javier Saltares
In-story information
Species	Human/Demon Hybrid
Team affiliations	The Firm
Partnerships	Deathwatch Lilin
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed, durability, and reflexes Psionic ability to extinguish light in his vicinity Teeth and fingernails are replaced with mechanical prosthetics

Blackout is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The Marcus Daniels version of Blackout first appeared in Nova #19 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Carmine Infantino, and Tom Palmer.

The half-demon version of Blackout first appeared in Ghost Rider #2 and was created by Howard Mackie and Javier Saltares.

Marcus Daniels was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City. He was working as a laboratory assistant to Dr. Abner Croit, a physicist hoping to build a device capable of tapping into energies from other dimensions. Croit always looked down on Daniels’ inferior knowledge, making him feel useless. Daniels always wondered what it would be like to harness the energy they were researching, to be powerful. After an accident bathed him in the extra-dimensional energy of the Darkforce, he had the chance to find out. Calling himself Blackout, his body was now flushed with power, becoming a surface of control of the Darkforce dimension. However, despite his powers threatening to go out of control, he escaped from Croit's attempts to cure him and fled.

Blackout returned to the laboratories, however, as he needed the stabilizer device to control his energies. But he also returned to find revenge on Croit— Blackout's sanity began to suffer as well. He believed Croit was researching energies from "Black Stars" and that his body now generated such energy. He further believed that Croit was defrauding the government with his research and had bribed a judge to frame him for stealing his secrets. Instead of an accident causing his powers, Daniels thought Dr. Croit willfully subjected him to an experiment in exchange for dropping charges against him.

Nova encountered Blackout on his way to exact revenge, and Blackout easily defeated the young hero. Before Nova could catch up with him, Blackout returned to the labs, killing Croit and his new assistant by letting them “merge with the color spectrum” (actually, by shunting them to the Darkforce dimension). Following another skirmish with Nova, Blackout himself vanished into this dimension when he fell back onto the stabilizer during the battle, destroying it.