Dates
- Cover date
- September 1981
- On sale
- 1981
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #73 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 0714860214909
Source ↗ - Direct edition50¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Stories
- Wraith, Color or Creed · 22 pages
Rom turns up in Times Square and begins to vaporize people. Super pimp Solace hires Luke and Danny to track down Rom after the Rom killed one of his working girls. The Heroes for Hire are then contacted by Reed Richards, who is really a Dire Wraith in disguise, and told that Rom is a killer alien robot. Power Man and Iron Fist track down and battle Rom but only succeed in destroying his jet pack. When they realize Rom isn't really trying to hurt them and once the whole Dire Wraith infestation is explained, they decide to help Rom hook up with the Fantastic Four.
Publisher’s description
Rom the Spaceknight has arrived in the Big Apple in search of his hated enemies the Dire Wraiths. However, the sinister shape-shifting aliens use man's natural xenophobia to turn them against the hero of Galador. Power Man and Iron Fist arrive on the seen to stop the rampaging alien they've been hearing about. Have the Dire Wraiths succeeded? Will our unsuspecting heroes destroy the very being who has come to our planet to save us?
Reprinted in
Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection (2015), Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (2023), Rom Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years (2025)