Rom #38 [Newsstand]
(January 1983)

Marvel, 1979 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860232301
Editing
Ann Nocenti (credited) (editor, assistant 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). Ann Nocenti is credited as editor on the comic story, and as assistant editor on the letters page.
This issue is a variant of Rom (Marvel, 1979 series) #38 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Rom / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gene Day (signed as Gene Day)
Inks
Gene Day (signed as Gene Day)
Colors
?

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Rom; Shang-Chi; Dire Wraiths

Suffer the Little Children! (Table of Contents: 1)

Rom / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo (credited)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks
Ian Akin (credited as Akin); Brian Garvey (credited as Garvey)
Colors
Barry Grossman (credited as Ben Sean)
Letters
Jim Novak (credited)

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Brandy Clark; Doctor Dredd (cameo); Clive Reston (cameo); Rom; Shang-Chi; Denis Nayland Smith (cameo); Starshine; Sybil (flashback); Black Jack Tarr (cameo); Leiko Wu (cameo); Dire Wraiths (villain)
Synopsis
In Scotland, Shang-Chi discovers a coven of Dire Wraiths trying to raise the bones of a little girl from the dead and stops them. In England, Rom uncovers an orphanage where the children have been put in a trance and replaced by Wraiths.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Space Notes / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo ?; Al Milgrom ? (credited as Allen Milgrom); Ann Nocenti ? (credited)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Feature Logo
Space Notes [fade]

Indexer Notes

Letter from Derek Stevenson, Conrad P. Felber, and Bruce Canwell with uncredited reply plus house ad for Vision and the Scarlet Witch mini-series.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Rom
  2. 1. Suffer the Little Children!
    Rom
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Space Notes
This issue was modified by
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Peter Croome
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom