#17
Direct
April 1981 · 0.50 USD; 0.50 CAD · 36 pages
On sale 1981-01-13
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Synopsis
Cerebro detects a powerful new mutant and Professor X sends the X-Men to investigate. Their destination is the town of Clairton where Rom and the town folk are just discovering that many of their friends and neighbors are Dire Wraith's in disguise. They head to the Marks' farm where Jacob confesses that he is a Wraith but is in love with his human wife whom their son, a human/Wraith hybrid has drained almost to death. Rom battles the monstrous Hybrid but, when the X-Men show up and see a killer robot beating on what appears to be a little boy, they decide that Rom is the bad guy.
Notes
Al Milgrom is credited on the letters page only (as Allen Milgrom). Jo Duffy is credited on both the comic story (as Jo Duffy) and the letters page (as Mary Jo Duffy).
Reprinted in
- Strange #148— Assemblé avec le Rom n° 18 pour former un seul épisode/Merged with Rom #18 into one story
- Rom and the X-Men: Marvel Tales #1
- Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus #1
- Rom Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years #1
Credits
- Script
- Bill Mantlo, Jo Duffy, Al Milgrom
- Pencils
- Frank Miller
- Inks
- Al Milgrom, Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Danny Crespi, Michael Higgins, Irv Watanabe
- Artist
- Sal Buscema
- Consultant
- Chris Claremont
- Editor (see notes)
- Jo Duffy, Al Milgrom
- Editor-in-chief
- Jim Shooter
- Storyteller
- Sal Buscema
- Writer, storyteller
- Bill Mantlo
Characters
- Logan
- Storm
- Hybrid
- Kurt Wagner
- Ororo Munroe
- Wolverine
- Colossus
- Piotr Rasputin
- Rom
- Nightcrawler
- Sprite
- Kitty Pryde
- Sarah Clark
- Steve Jackson
- Charles Xavier
- Brandy Clark
- Jonathan Clark
- Professor X
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