Blackout (Marcus Daniels)

Blackout (Marcus Daniels) is a supervillain appearing in American comic book published by Marvel Comics.

Blackout first appeared in Nova #19 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Carmine Infantino, and Tom Palmer.

Marcus Daniels was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City. He works as a laboratory assistant to Abner Croit, a physicist hoping to build a device capable of tapping into energies from other dimensions. Croit looks down on Daniels, making him feel useless. An experiment bathed Daniels in Darkforce energy, giving him the ability to control it. Despite his powers threatening to go out of control, he escapes from Croit's attempts to control him and flees.

Blackout returns to Croit's laboratory to find a stabilizer device needed to control his energy. Slowly losing his sanity, Blackout comes to believe that Croit had been researching energies from "Black Stars" and willfully subjected him to experimentation in exchange for dropping charges against him.