I just realized that Mr. Stern wrote many of the stories featuring the Shroud not written by the Shroud's creator, Steve Englehart.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/blackoutdaniels.htm
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-41469.html
I am also guessing that he connected explicitly the Shroud as well as Blackout's abilities to darkforce. I am guessing that this phrase was first used in Champions#7 in reference to the late lamented Darkstar.
Incidentally, some possible pre-Darkstar (diagetically, anyway) users of darkforce: the Mandarin, Dark-Crawler, the Old Man, and Shaya.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/byanhant.htm#Old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkforce
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/shayakali.htm
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/shayakali.htm
In Spider-Woman I#15, the Shroud conjectures that his
darkness powers (which he did not display or know that
he had in Super-Villain Team-Up#5-12, his only
previous appearances before he appeared in
Spider-Woman stories written by Mark Gruenwald) were
bestowed upon him by the Kiss of Kali during his
training in Nepal but that his teachers never got
around to telling him about them (because the Shroud
ran into the snow to douse a bad scalding that
resulted when, during his graduation ceremony, the
brand of Kali was placed on his face; this lack of stoic reserve
was seen as flinching). That would suggest that Shaya did indeed give Gruenwald the idea
to give the Shrould darkness powers.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/blackoutdaniels.htm
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-41469.html
I am also guessing that he connected explicitly the Shroud as well as Blackout's abilities to darkforce. I am guessing that this phrase was first used in Champions#7 in reference to the late lamented Darkstar.
Incidentally, some possible pre-Darkstar (diagetically, anyway) users of darkforce: the Mandarin, Dark-Crawler, the Old Man, and Shaya.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/byanhant.htm#Old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkforce
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/shayakali.htm
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/shayakali.htm
In Spider-Woman I#15, the Shroud conjectures that his
darkness powers (which he did not display or know that
he had in Super-Villain Team-Up#5-12, his only
previous appearances before he appeared in
Spider-Woman stories written by Mark Gruenwald) were
bestowed upon him by the Kiss of Kali during his
training in Nepal but that his teachers never got
around to telling him about them (because the Shroud
ran into the snow to douse a bad scalding that
resulted when, during his graduation ceremony, the
brand of Kali was placed on his face; this lack of stoic reserve
was seen as flinching). That would suggest that Shaya did indeed give Gruenwald the idea
to give the Shrould darkness powers.
