Rom
#5
[Newsstand]
(April 1980)
Marvel,
1979 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD; 0.40 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860232304
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Jo Duffy (credited) (editor (see Notes)); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief); Al Milgrom (credited as Allen Milgrom) (editor (see Notes))
Issue Notes
Al Milgrom is credited on the letters page only (as Allen Milgrom). Jo Duffy is credited on both the comic story (as Jo Duffy) and the letters page (as Mary Jo Duffy).
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The House That Haunted Space Knights!
Rom / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Milgrom (signed as
MILGROM) - Inks
- Al Milgrom (signed as MILGROM)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rom
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
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A House Is Not a Home!
Rom / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (credited) (artist)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema (credited) (artist)
- Colors
- George Roussos (credited as G. Roussos)
- Letters
- Michael Higgins (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Rom
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #137 (5 mai 1981) -
in Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023)
-
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Stan's Soapbox, Marvel Masterpieces On Sale This Month (with a small illustration of ROM), and house ad for Spider-Woman and The Thing on Saturday morning TV
The Human Torch in A Hot Time in the Old Town
Hostess Twinkies; Human Torch / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Great balls of fire, Flame Thrower wasn't kidding.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flame Thrower; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]
- Synopsis
- The Human Torch stops the Flame Thrower with Hostess Twinkies.
He Writes the Spaceknight: Bill Mantlo
Space Notes / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited as Bill); Jo Duffy ? (credited as Mary Jo Duffy); Al Milgrom ? (credited as Allen Milgrom)
- Pencils
- Al Milgrom (signed as
AM) - Inks
- Al Milgrom (signed as AM)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
Space Notes [fade]- Characters
- Bill Mantlo
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Bio with illustration of Bill Mantlo and letters from Dominick DeAnthony, Matt Levin and Todd Benedict with replies by Bill Mantlo
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The House That Haunted Space Knights!
Rom -
1.
A House Is Not a Home!
Rom -
2.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox -
3.
The Human Torch in A Hot Time in the Old Town
Hostess Twinkies; Human Torch -
4.
He Writes the Spaceknight: Bill Mantlo
Space Notes
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Max Capp
- Peter Croome
- Darrel McCann
- Eric Rom
- Ramon Schenk
- Steven Tice
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