Rom
#19
[Newsstand]
(June 1981)
Marvel,
1979 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860232306
- Editing
- Al Milgrom (editor (see Notes)); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief); Jack Abel (assistant editor (see Notes))
Issue Notes
Jack Abel is credited on the letters page only. Al Milgrom is credited on both the comic story (as Al Milgrom) and the letters page (as Allen Milgrom).
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Rom / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Michael Golden (signed as
G) - Inks
- Michael Golden (signed as G)
- Colors
- George Roussos (sourced)
- Letters
- Michael Higgins
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Your Best Friend Wouldn't Lie to You, Rom!
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Rom; Space Phantom; Dire Wraiths; Karas
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Rom (Marvel, 1979 series) #19 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/26/w200/26982.jpg?1630164492784943458)
![Cover Thumbnail for Rom (1979 series) #19 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/815/w100/815697.jpg?3524561574885645031)
Limbo!
Rom / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (credited) (artist)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema (credited) (artist)
- Colors
- Don Warfield (credited as D. Warfield)
- Letters
- Michael Higgins (credited as M. Higgins)
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (flashback) (cameo); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (flashback) (cameo); Sprite [Kitty Pryde] (flashback) (cameo); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (flashback) (cameo); Wolverine [Logan] (flashback) (cameo)
Brandy Clark; Hybrid (flashback) (cameo); Steve Jackson; Rom; Space Phantom (villain); Karas [Firefall] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Having been shot with his own Neutralizer by Kitty Pryde, Rom has accidentally been banished to Limbo where he battles Dire Wraiths and the Space Phantom who has taken on the form of his best friend, Karas. When the real Karas shows up, he helps Rom defeat the villain and then opens a portal to send our hero home to earth.
- Reprints
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #149 (5 mai 1982) -
in Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023)
-
[no title indexed]
Spaceknights / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thuvria! But All Seems so Peaceful, so Secure!
- Genre
- science fiction; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rom; Starshine; Terminator; Archon; a Dire Wraith
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Spaceknights arrive on the planet Thuvria to root out a Dire Wraith infestation. After the Wraith menace has been dealt with, Terminator kills one of the planet's inhabitants in anger and Rom decides to take him back to Galador to stand trial.
- Reprints
- in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #149 (5 mai 1982)
- in Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023)
-
Iron Man in The Charge of the Rhinos!
Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere near Fort Knox.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]
[no title indexed]
Space Notes / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited); Al Milgrom ? (credited as Allen Milgrom); Jack Abel ? (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
Space Notes [fade]- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters from Kevin C. McConnell, Brian Nelson, William Hall, Gerry Mulholland and Bill Schwan with replies by Bill Mantlo.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Your Best Friend Wouldn't Lie to You, Rom!"]
Rom -
1.
Limbo!
Rom -
2.
["Thuvria! But All Seems so Peaceful, so Secure!"]
Spaceknights -
3.
Iron Man in The Charge of the Rhinos!
Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man -
4.
[no title indexed]
Space Notes
This issue was modified by, among others
- ge.org.e
- Katie
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Max Capp
- Peter Croome
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Eric Rom
- Steven Tice
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