- Script:
- Bill Mantlo
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Jackson Guice
- Colors:
- Petra Scotese
- Letters:
- Janice Chiang
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Rom; GUESTS: Rick Jones; Brandy Clark [Starshine]; Cindy Adams; Henry Peter Gyrich; General Merriwether Locklin; VILLAINS: Dire Wraiths; CAMEOS: Forge; Cyclops; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Spider-Man; Human Torch; The Thing; Mr. Fantastic; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Thor; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]
- Synopsis:
- A strange black disc appears in the sky and stabs a beam directly through the sun; Rom investigates and finds it has been created by Dire Wraith sorcerers; Rom drives off the Wraiths but the damage has already been done as a large black spot is slowly spreading across the sun; Rom learns from Cindy, a little girl whose mind has been touched by a dying Wraith, that the aliens are using the black beam as a conduit with which they are attracting their own world to merge with earth; Gyrich claims that the only man capable of duplicating Rom's neutralizer and halting Wraith-World refuses to help.
Continued from Rom Annual (Marvel, 1982 series) #3; Gyrich appears here after encountering Wraiths in Uncanny X-Men, the (Marvel, 1981 series) #185