Power Man and Iron Fist #73 [Direct]

(September 1981)

Wraith, Color or Creed (Table of Contents: 1)

Power Man and Iron Fist / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Jo Duffy (credited as Mary Jo Duffy)

Pencils

Greg LaRocque

Inks

Ricardo Villamonte

Colors

Christie Scheele

Letters

Janice Chiang

Genre

superhero

Characters

Power Man [Luke Cage]; Iron Fist; Rom; Bob Diamond; Colleen Wing; Misty Knight; Harmony Young; Solace; D.W. Griffith; Lieutenant Scarfe; Dire Wraiths (villains); Cyclops (cameo in photo); Dire Wraith Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing] (cameo); Jack of Hearts (cameo flashback); Brandy Clark (cameo flashback); Steve Jackson (cameo flashback)

Synopsis

Rom turns up in Times Square and begins to vaporize people. Super pimp Solace hires Luke and Danny to track down Rom after the Rom killed one of his working girls. The Heroes for Hire are then contacted by Reed Richards, who is really a Dire Wraith in disguise, and told that Rom is a killer alien robot. Power Man and Iron Fist track down and battle Rom but only succeed in destroying his jet pack. When they realize Rom isn't really trying to hurt them and once the whole Dire Wraith infestation is explained, they decide to help Rom hook up with the Fantastic Four.

Reprints

• in Hulk Hors Série (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #[3] - Hulk contre Quasimodo (janvier 1984)
• in Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023)

Indexer Notes

Continued in Rom (Marvel, 1979 series) #23.