Review
Title: “Peril, thy Name Is Plunderer!”Synopsis: An amnesiac Rom foils the Plunderer’s pirate plot with some help from a young Earth girl.
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Penciler: Sal Buscema
Inker: Buscema
Rom kicks off its second year with this odd tale featuring an amnesiac Rom battling a pedestrian pirate plot from C-list villain the Plunderer. It’s a done in one without much weight and just passing entertainment value. Sal Buscema’s art is similarly unremarkable.
Title: “The Saga of the Spaceknights!”
Synopsis: The Galadorian-Wraith War is over, but Rom’s dream of reclaiming his humanity must be put on hold.
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Penciler: Sal Buscema
Inker: Buscema
This backup story offers a glimpse of Rom’s backstory and adds a little gravitas to this otherwise pedestrian effort.
Cool factor: The backup feature has promise.
Not-so-cool factor: No, little girl. Don’t take the alien cyborg into that cave. Alone.
Character Quotable
“This, then, is our mission: To follow and destroy Wraithkind wherever it may hide … to defend humanity in all its forms … to penetrate the darkness with Galador’s light! To fight on … until the war is won!”Rom, mission statement
ROM #13
Published and © by Marvel and © Parker Brothers, December 1980
Cover uncredited
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