Rom Vol 1 (1979–1986)

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Type: Ongoing Series (Solo)

Genre: Super Hero

Featuring: Rom

Status: Finished

Publication Date: December, 1979—February, 1986

75 issues

255 images

1 annual

75 reprinted issues

2 TPB editions

Rom #1
"Arrival!"
Release date: September 4, 1979
Cover date: December, 1979

Rom #2
"Second Coming!"
Release date: October 2, 1979
Cover date: January, 1980

Rom #3
"Firefall!"
Release date: November 6, 1979
Cover date: February, 1980

Rom #4
"The Fire, the Friend, and the Foe!"
Release date: December 18, 1979
Cover date: March, 1980

Rom #5
"A House Is Not a Home!"
Release date: January 15, 1980
Cover date: April, 1980

Rom #6
"Dog Day Afternoon!"
Release date: February 19, 1980
Cover date: May, 1980

Rom #7
"As I Lay Dying!"
Release date: March 18, 1980
Cover date: June, 1980

Rom #8
"Deathwing!"
Release date: April 15, 1980
Cover date: July, 1980

Rom #9
"The Stalker in the Night!"
Release date: May 20, 1980
Cover date: August, 1980

Rom #10
"Warrior Over Washington!"
Release date: June 17, 1980
Cover date: September, 1980

Rom #11
"Standoff!"
Release date: July 15, 1980
Cover date: October, 1980

Rom #12
"Heart Attack!"
Release date: August 19, 1980
Cover date: November, 1980

Rom #13
"Peril, Thy Name Is Plunderer!"
Release date: September 16, 1980
Cover date: December, 1980

Rom #14
"The Ultimate Android!"
Release date: October 21, 1980
Cover date: January, 1981

Rom #15
"A Wedding!"
Release date: November 18, 1980
Cover date: February, 1981

Rom #16
"The Watchwraith!"
Release date: December 16, 1980
Cover date: March, 1981

Rom #17
"Hybrid!"
Release date: January 13, 1981
Cover date: April, 1981

Rom #18
"And a Child Shall Deceive Them!"
Release date: February 17, 1981
Cover date: May, 1981

Rom #19
"Limbo!"
Release date: March 17, 1981
Cover date: June, 1981

Rom #20
"Mindgames"
Release date: April 14, 1981
Cover date: July, 1981

Rom #21
"Move Over, Rom -- There's a New Hero in Town!"
Release date: May 12, 1981
Cover date: August, 1981

Rom #22
"Great Rocketeers Revival!"
Release date: June 9, 1981
Cover date: September, 1981

Rom #23
"The Thing from Outer Space!"
Release date: July 14, 1981
Cover date: October, 1981

Rom #24
"No Place Like Home!"
Release date: August 11, 1981
Cover date: November, 1981

Rom #25
"Galador!"
Release date: September 8, 1981
Cover date: December, 1981

Rom #26
"Galactus!"
Release date: October 13, 1981
Cover date: January, 1982

Rom #27
"Turnabout Is Fair Play!"
Release date: November 10, 1981
Cover date: February, 1982

Rom #28
"Earthward Bound!"
Release date: December 8, 1981
Cover date: March, 1982

Rom #29
"Even a Spaceknight Can Cry!"
Release date: January 12, 1982
Cover date: April, 1982

Rom #30
"Silver Spiders in the Snow!"
Release date: February 9, 1982
Cover date: May, 1982

Rom #31
"West Virginia REEL"
Release date: March 9, 1982
Cover date: June, 1982

Rom #32
"Choosing Sides"
Release date: April 6, 1982
Cover date: July, 1982

Rom #33
"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
Release date: May 11, 1982
Cover date: August, 1982

Rom #34
"Some Day My Prince Will Come"
Release date: June 8, 1982
Cover date: September, 1982

Rom #35
"Agony in Atlantis!"
Release date: July 6, 1982
Cover date: October, 1982

Rom #36
"The Sign of the Victim Is... Scarecrow!"
Release date: August 10, 1982
Cover date: November, 1982

Rom #37
"In Days of Olde when Knights Were Bolde!"
Release date: September 7, 1982
Cover date: December, 1982

Rom #38
"Suffer the Little Children"
Release date: October 12, 1982
Cover date: January, 1983

Rom #39
"Deathrise!"
Release date: November 9, 1982
Cover date: February, 1983

Rom #40
"Piper of Peril!"
Release date: December 7, 1982
Cover date: March, 1983

Rom #41
"The Dweller on the Threshold!"
Release date: January 11, 1983
Cover date: April, 1983

Rom #42
"Lead Me Not Into Temptation"
Release date: February 8, 1983
Cover date: May, 1983

Rom #43
"Rom -- Spaceman"
Release date: March 8, 1983
Cover date: June, 1983

Rom #44
"It Takes Two to Tango!"
Release date: April 5, 1983
Cover date: July, 1983

Rom #45
"Cry, the Mother Country"
Release date: May 10, 1983
Cover date: August, 1983

Rom #46
"Bestiary!"
Release date: June 7, 1983
Cover date: September, 1983

Rom #47
"One Man's Toys... Are Another Man's Terror!"
Release date: July 12, 1983
Cover date: October, 1983

Rom #48
"Renunciation!"
Release date: August 9, 1983
Cover date: November, 1983

Rom #49
"Massacre!"
Release date: September 6, 1983
Cover date: December, 1983

Rom #50
"The Extraterrestrials!"
Release date: October 11, 1983
Cover date: January, 1984

Rom #51
"Gloves Off!"
Release date: November 8, 1983
Cover date: February, 1984

Rom #52
"Total War!"
Release date: December 6, 1983
Cover date: March, 1984

Rom #53
"Paranoia Strikes Deep!"
Release date: January 10, 1984
Cover date: April, 1984

Rom #54
"The Blood-Trail!"
Release date: February 7, 1984
Cover date: May, 1984

Rom #55
"The Enemy Within!"
Release date: March 13, 1984
Cover date: June, 1984

Rom #56
"Clear Waters Remembered!"
Release date: April 10, 1984
Cover date: July, 1984

Rom #57
"Scenes of Destruction on Every Hand!"
Release date: May 8, 1984
Cover date: August, 1984

Rom #58
"A Plague of Insects!"
Release date: June 5, 1984
Cover date: September, 1984

Rom #59
"A World Alive!"
Release date: July 10, 1984
Cover date: October, 1984

Rom #60
"The Eyes of a Child!"
Release date: August 7, 1984
Cover date: November, 1984

Rom #61
"The Beginning of the End of the World!"
Release date: September 11, 1984
Cover date: December, 1984

Rom #62
"Truth or Consequences!"
Release date: October 9, 1984
Cover date: January, 1985

Rom #63
"Space Race!"
Release date: November 6, 1984
Cover date: February, 1985

Rom #64
"Worldmerge!"
Release date: December 11, 1984
Cover date: March, 1985

Rom #65
"Doomsday!"
Release date: January 8, 1985
Cover date: April, 1985

Rom #66
"The Day After!"
Release date: February 5, 1985
Cover date: May, 1985

Rom #67
"Lifesong"
Release date: March 12, 1985
Cover date: June, 1985

Rom #68
"Ad Infinitum"
Release date: April 9, 1985
Cover date: July, 1985

Rom #69
"This World Alive!"
Release date: May 7, 1985
Cover date: August, 1985

Rom #70
"The Hidden God!"
Release date: June 11, 1985
Cover date: September, 1985

Rom #71
"Shame"
Release date: July 9, 1985
Cover date: October, 1985

Rom #72
"When You Wish Upon a Star"
Release date: August 6, 1985
Cover date: November, 1985

Rom #73
"Strangers in Paradise!"
Release date: September 10, 1985
Cover date: December, 1985

Rom #74
"The Bargain!"
Release date: October 8, 1985
Cover date: January, 1986

Rom #75
"The End!"
Release date: November 5, 1985
Cover date: February, 1986

See Also

• Rom Annual

Notes

• Sales figures for 1979 indicated an average of 325,000 copies sold per issue.
• Chris Ryall, former president of IDW Publishing and co-writer of the 2016 ROM comic, attempted to get the publisher to do a compiled reprint of this volume, emulating what they had done before with the Transformers Classics TBPs, however, a series of legal complications prevented this from happening. Years later, in 2024, the comic was finally able to be reprinted thanks to a mutual agreement made between Hasbro (owner of Rom) and Marvel Comics.