A BIRTHDAY SALUTE: The widely respected writer turns 70…
Bill Mantlo — born 70 years ago on Nov. 9, 1951, is one of Marvel’s most popular Bronze Age writers. He’s well known for co-creating Rocket Raccoon and Cloak and Dagger, as well as fan-fave runs on the toy tie-in comics The Micronauts and Rom — both of which defied expectations and became critical and commercial successes.
For this year’s 13 COVERS birthday salute, we’re going with Rom, pretty much just because. Artists include Michael Golden (Mantlo’s Micronauts collaborator), Al Milgrom, Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz and more.
Dig it.
Frank Miller pencils, Joe Rubinstein inks
Al Milgrom
Milgrom
David Mazzucchelli pencils, Terry Austin inks
Ed Hannigan pencils, Milgrom inks
Michael Golden
Dave Cockrum
P. Craig Russell
Milgrom
Golden
Miller and Milgrom
Milgrom
Bill Sienkiewicz
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MORE
— 13 Gorgeous Original MICRONAUTS Pages: A MICHAEL GOLDEN Birthday Salute. Click here.
— ROM & THE MICRONAUTS: Inside the Team-Up Decades in the Making. Click here.
November 9, 2021
I’ve always said ROM is so intertwined in the Marvel Universe, no one else (like IDW) can possibly reprint it. But Marvel could, if they just coughed up the license fee for the toy. How much could it POSSIBLY cost? We could probably raise the money in a bake sale. On surveys, ROM and Micronauts are the two properties that constantly rise to the top of “most wanted to reprint”.
November 10, 2021
These were both great series. I never missed an issue. Iād willingly hand money over for a collection reprint of both.
November 9, 2021
Yeah, Marvel really needs to pay the licensing fee to put out a series of Rom Epic Collections. This was some great stuff. Bill and Sal did a great job with the title.
November 9, 2021
The Rom character is really interesting. I’m feeling like reading the entire “Rom” series by Marvel. š