WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Hybrid (Rom antagonist) — first appearance, also in flashback
Dates
- Cover date
- April 1981
- On sale
- 1981
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #17 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition50¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860232304 · shared with another edition
Source ↗ - Direct edition50¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
This edition’s page - UK pence edition0.20 GBP cover
British
Printed cover price 0.20 GBP.
Barcode 0714860232304 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Hybrid! · 22 pages
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.
Characters
Reprinted in
Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (2023), Rom and the X-Men: Marvel Tales (2024), Rom Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years (2025)