Hi everyone,
It's time for me to write about the last issue of Marvel's ROM: Spaceknight comic book. The cover shows a pair of humans standing in front of an image of the silver Spaceknight. The story was appropriately named "The End!" The issue had a cover date of February 1986.
Lord Dominor's saw blade was actually able to pierce ROM's armor. During the conflict, Trapper and Scanner found the Dark Tower's communication room and sent out a distress call to other first-generation Spaceknights. Unfortunately, they were both felled in battle by other second-generation Spaceknights, but not before the call went out across the galaxy for assistance.
Meanwhile, in the catacombs deep beneath Galador's surface, Brandy Clark noticed a strange glow on a nearby wall. It took a Galadorian lightning bolt to break down the wall. Inside, she saw a silver suit of Spaceknight armor raised on a bier that looked identical to ROM's.
Back in the Dark Tower, the battle raged on. Dominor and ROM whispered to each other as they fought. ROM continued to reject Dominor's offer, and the evil leader eventually fell to the ground, seemingly defeated. His comrades asked ROM to join them, but ROM quickly rejected the request. They then formed a ring of power around him, and their combined abilities destroyed the tower.
ROM and Lord Dominor soon found themselves on solid ground. Dominor's companions had perished in the explosion, and he explained how he knew that their exercise of ultimate power would only destroy themselves. He saw that the battle would not continue, but soon noticed that the throne that had contained his own humanity was destroyed as well. Seeing no further purpose, Dominor lunged for ROM's neutralizer, which he used upon himself, so that he could dream no longer.
After a while, ROM was awoken by his love, Brandy. She was joined by the Spaceknights, who heard the distress call. One of them explained the crypt that Clark had found, and presented him with a globe that floated from it after it was touched. Inside were the human remains that Terminator had stolen from him.
The globe was soon activated, and ROM's cyborg armor disappeared. He was finally human once more. He decided to remain on Galador with Brandy, while the remaining Spaceknights took to the skies to stand watch among the stars. Brandy and ROM started making plans for a better Galador.
In 1986, this title was cancelled, at about the same time as Power Man and Iron Fist, Dazzler, the Defenders, and Micronauts: The New Voyages. I don't think that sales of this title were slipping very much, but I assumed it was probably difficult to find material to write after the end of the wraith war. I was impressed that Bill Mantlo stayed on the series' entire run, and scripted every monthly issue's main story, along with most of the content from the annuals. ROM and Brandy would appear in the Incredible Hulk #418 in their human forms on Earth for the wedding of Rick Jones before Marvel lost the license to the Parker Brothers character.
Well, there you have it, folks! The complete Marvel run of ROM: Spaceknight. I hope you enjoyed reading these articles as much as I enjoyed writing them. I'm going to take a bit of a breather before delving into Jim Starlin's Spaceknights limited series that took some of these concepts into the year 2000. Until then, have a great week and don't forget to be kind to one another.
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