ROM (1979 Marvel) comic books

ROM (1979 Marvel) 3 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case

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Label #19-27D449D-103

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema. Frank Miller cover. As Rom stands overlooking the countryside he contemplates his lost humanity and longs to return home. However, the threat posed by the Dire Wraiths demands his attention yet again. Also, Brandy Clark can't get Rom and his warning out of her head as she returns home to find visitors of another kind in her apartment. Meanwhile, disguised Dire Wraiths use one man's own xenophobia to twist his hate and fear of Rom to their own ends. 32 pages. Cover price $0.40.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 17 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4384510022

Part 1 of 2 - Guest starring the Uncanny X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Sprite). Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema. Frank Miller cover. Cerebro, the mutant detecting device of Professor Charles Xavier, has discovered a new mutant residing in Clairton, West Virginia. He immediately dispatches his students, the mutant heroes known as the X-Men, to find this new source of power. Rom, discovers that a disguised Dire Wraith has married and procreated with a human woman. Can even Rom stand against the psionic power and horrible evil of the Hybrid. 32 pages. NOTE: 1st appearance of Hybrid. Cover price $0.50.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 17 CGC 7.5

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition

Label #4385888019

Part 1 of 2 - Guest starring the Uncanny X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Sprite). Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema. Frank Miller cover. Cerebro, the mutant detecting device of Professor Charles Xavier, has discovered a new mutant residing in Clairton, West Virginia. He immediately dispatches his students, the mutant heroes known as the X-Men, to find this new source of power. Rom, discovers that a disguised Dire Wraith has married and procreated with a human woman. Can even Rom stand against the psionic power and horrible evil of the Hybrid. 32 pages. NOTE: 1st appearance of Hybrid. Cover price $0.50.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 18 CBCS 8.5

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition.

Label #21-248D6B1-003

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Part 2 of 2 - Guest starring the Uncanny X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Sprite). Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema. Frank Miller cover. Born from the unnatural union of a Dire Wraith father and a human mother, the malevolent Hybrid has used his powerful psionic and shape-changing abilities to trick the X-Men into thinking that Rom is the evil one. Now, Rom must stave off the powerful mutants long enough to convince them of the true threat before it is too late. 32 pages. NOTE: 2nd appearance of Hybrid. Cover price $0.50.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 24 CBCS 9.4

Paper: White

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Label #21-248D6B1-004

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott. Hurtling through space on his way home, Rom crosses paths with Richard Ryder, a.k.a. Nova, the Human Rocket. Rom soon allies with the youthful hero and his super-powered friends to defend the planet Xandar from invading hordes of alien Skrulls. 32 pages.

NOTE: This story continues the struggle started in Fantastic Four #204-209 and completes the saga of Nova (Richard Rider), whose adventures began in his own short-lived series. Rider returns as Kid Nova in the pages of New Warriors (1990-1996 1st Series) #1. - Odinson, mycomicshop Archivist Cover price $0.50.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 27 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Newsstand Edition

Label #4385888017

Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott. Rom and the Spaceknights of Galador return to Wraithworld, the home planet of their most hated enemy. It was the setting for their greatest victory. And now they have returned with Galactus as an ally to finish what they started over two centuries ago. However, there reside things in the Dark Nebula that even the Devourer of Worlds may fear. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Dire Wraiths, taking full advantage of Rom's absence, have invaded the small West Virginia town of Clairton. 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 35 CBCS 8.5

Paper: White

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Label #22-2D0A2F1-009

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Danny Bulanadi. Many fathoms below the sea, Rom, together with his new ally Prince Namor, the Savage Sub- Mariner, confront a horrible product of Dire Wraith black magic. A threat that could spell the end for the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and the surface world as well. 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 42 CBCS 7.5

Paper: Off white to white

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Label #22-3F879FE-012

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Akin Garvey. Rom strikes an unholy bargain with Quasimodo the Living Computer (last seen in Incredible Hulk #259). In exchange for his humanity Rom shall give up his Spaceknight armor to the sentient machine. There's no way this ends well. Special cameo appearance by Doctor Strange. 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 47 CBCS 9.6

Paper: White

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Label #22-2D0A2F1-010

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Akin Garvey. A young couple soon learn what lurks in the dark as a pare of Dire Wraiths reveal their terrible nature to them. Plus, Rom and Starshine arrive to a mysterious island and are accosted by creatures of fantasy and fairy-tale in "One Man's Toys...are another Man's Terror!" 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 52 CBCS 9.4

Paper: White

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Label #22-2D0A2F1-011

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema and Mel Candido. The Dire Wraiths step it up a notch in "Total War!" Rom bands together with the US Army to repel a Wraith attack and shows the military just how bad the Wraith infestation is on our planet. However, they soon learn that the Dire Wraiths are closer than they at first realized. 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 54 CBCS 9.6

Paper: White

Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back

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Label #21-24971B9-025

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Guest-starring Rick Jones, Nick Fury, and Dr. Strange. Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema, Mel Candido, and Kelly Jones. As Rom educates the military on the horrors of the Dire Wraiths, professional sidekick Rick Jones takes up residence at a hospital to have tests done. However, this house of medicine has also drawn the evil of Wraithkind to its doorstep. 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 61 CBCS 9.4

Paper: White

Label #22-069BD64-033

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Steve Ditko and Jackson Guice. Continued from Rom Annual #3. Rom confronts a vast flock of Wraiths in the form Deathwings in "The Beginning of the End of the World!" Plus, government Agent Henry Gyrich, oft nemesis of the Avengers and X-Men, arrives to tell the military and Rom that there is a man who has successfully duplicated Rom's most powerful weapon, the Neutralizer. That man's name is Forge. 32 Cover price $0.60.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 65 CBCS 9.2

Paper: White

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Label #21-248D6B1-005

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Guest-starring everybody. Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Steve Ditko and P. Craig Russell. The end is near. Nay, true-believer...the end is here. This is it...the Final Conflict. Rom is defeated and victory is within the grasp of the evil Dire Wraiths. However, one last thing stands in their way and total victory, the united governments of the Earth and oh yeah, all those pesky super-heroes Rom has spent the last 64 issues recruiting to his cause. Rom is joined by the Avengers, the West Coast Avengers, the X-Men, the Defenders, the Soviet Super-Soldiers and all of the heroes of the world in one last ultimate battle to rid the Earth of Wraithkind forever. It's all or nothing...there's no turning back now. The war and the fate of mankind is decided in this epic issue. 32 pages. Cover price $0.65.

ROM (1979 Marvel) 71 CBCS 9.0

Paper: Off white to white

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Label #22-2D0A2F1-022

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Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Steve Ditko and P. Craig Russell. Rom's ranks grow as Unam the Unseen and Vola the Trapper join him, Scanner, and Seeker. They come across yet another planet under attack by the deadly Dire Wraiths but this time the evil aliens are being led into battle by a traitor, the Spaceknight known as Raak the Breaker. It's Spaceknight vs. Spaceknight and one Spaceknight will not make it to the end of this issue alive. 32 pages. Cover price $0.65.