Rom 61 (Dec 1984) NM- (9.2)

The Beginning of the End of the World!

Script: Bill Mantlo (credited)

Pencils: Steve Ditko (credited) (art)

Inks: Butch Guice (credited as Jackson Guice) (art)

Colors: Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra Scotese)

Letters: Janice Chiang (credited)

Characters: Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo)]; X-Men [Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (cameo); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (cameo); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (cameo); Wolverine [Logan] (cameo)]; Cindy Adams; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo); Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau] (cameo); Brandy Clark; Forge (cameo); Henry Gyrich; Rick Jones; Merriwether Locklin; Rom; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski] (cameo); Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (cameo); Starshine; Thor [Thor Odinson] (cameo); Dire Wraiths (villains)

Synopsis: 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.