The Shroud first appeared in Super-Villain Team-Up #5 (April 1976) and was created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe.

"As a Marvel writer, I thought I'd never get to write the Batman, so I took some Bat-traits and mixed them with some Shadow-traits so as not to get sued and made my own homage to those dark night characters.

Upon graduation from college, he joined the mysterious temple called the "Cult of Kali", where he studied various styles of martial arts.

The Shroud recounted his origin to Namor, and the two secretly entered Latveria disguised as members of the Circus of Crime.

[4] However, the Shroud shifted gears to help Doom and Captain America oppose someone else with a longer track record of crimes against humanity: the Red Skull.

He is then broken out,[20] in order to join Captain America's anti-registration army and takes part in the final battle.

[21] During the Shadowland storyline, Shroud is paired with Silver Sable, Misty Knight, and Paladin when Daredevil's Hand ninjas target members of the mafia.

[22] Following the death of Marc Spector, Coleridge takes on the Moon Knight moniker before coming into conflict with his predecessor's allies and having his identity exposed.

[25] Exposure to bombardment of the Red Skull's hypno-ray triggered a latent power over darkness in the Shroud.

The darkness he projects does not fill a volume instantly: it is possible to see its hazy boundary move like thick, black smoke in the air.

The Shroud has control over the darkness so as to create hazy-edged, featureless black shapes with it, the complexity of which is limited only by his imagination.

As a result of this ceremony, he possesses a mystical sense of extrasensory perception enabling him to "see" through walls and even through his own mantle of darkness.

[citation needed] His mystic senses can even enable him to detect the internal hardware components of a computer.

[26] The Shroud is an Olympic-level athlete with extensive training in several fields of East Asian martial arts, and is adept at acrobatics and infiltration.

[27] The Shroud appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 as part of the "Cloak and Dagger" DLC.