Rom #38 [Direct]
(January 1983)

Marvel, 1979 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-10-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
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 has 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
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
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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)
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
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)

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

Script
Eliot R. Brown (signed); Jim Shooter (signed as Shooter)
Pencils
Ken Feduniewicz
Inks
Ken Feduniewicz
Colors
?
Letters
typeset; ?

Indexer Notes

Bulletins and illustration of Marvel Comics vs. Warren Publishing softball game.

[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
Issue at my.comics.org
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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, among others
  • Katie
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom
  • Per Sandell
  • Steven Tice
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