Dates
- Cover date
- December 1984
- On sale
- August 21, 1984
- Pages
- 36
Values
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #61 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition60¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition60¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860232312 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.75 CAD.
Barcode 0714860232312 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Story arc: Dire Wraiths War
This is part 8 of 10. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Creators
Stories
- The Beginning of the End of the World! · 22 pages
A strange black disc appears in the sky and stabs a beam directly through the sun. Rom investigates and finds it has been created by Dire Wraith sorcerers. Rom drives off the Wraiths but the damage has already been done as a large black spot is slowly spreading across the sun. Rom learns from Cindy, a little girl whose mind has been touched by a dying Wraith, that the aliens are using the black beam as a conduit with which they are attracting their own world to merge with Earth. Gyrich claims that the only man capable of duplicating Rom's neutralizer and halting Wraith-World refuses to help.
Publisher’s description
Rom confronts a vast flock of Dire Wraiths in the form Deathwings. Government Agent Henry Gyrich, oft nemesis of the Avengers and X-Men, arrives to tell the military and Rom that there is man who has successfully duplicated Rom's most powerful weapon, his Neutralizer. That man's name is Forge.
Characters
Reprinted in
Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (2023), Rom Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years (2025)