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CCL taught me that other than issue #1 and maybe one other, ROM is a low value book not worthy of the price of the Omnibus price when you can get the originals for less than that. I still have a set and enjoyed them when they were coming out originally and again when I put my current set together.

The IDW series never really sold here or got much interest outside of one subscriber and the issues I read didn't really feel as enjoyable as the old stuff. I've still got the entire run and the FCBD issue in stock right now. Apparently even giving away FCBD issues wasn't enough to get people to take a set out the door as they came in.

If Marvels going to do a bunch of variant covers, which is something they do every month anyway for one stupid reason or another, just ignore them unless you see one you have to have. Over the last 6 months I've scaled back variant cover purchases to just those titles I know I have people that want every cover option for. I can't see ROM being HOT enough of a topic to trigger a bunch of collectors chasing sets. DC's slashed the returnability on theirs as well so most DC's I just order A covers for now unless requested. There are a couple individual artists that have a good long term track record I'll buy extras to stock but theme of the month usually ends up as a dud and not selling until all the A covers have sold out.

The only DC book on the strip cover return list for November I can see is the Batman Day Bundles finally showing up as long as we turn in 25 issue bundles, I assume strip covered.

I believe that Hasbro still owns the rights to ROM as a whole but they are allowing Marvel to reprint the old comics. Not sure how they are allowed to do the new covers. Maybe they are homage covers?

https://www.cbr.com/hasbro-rom-returns-marvel-omnibus/

You've probably seen this already but here it is anyway!

https://www.thegeektwins.com/2022/01/who-owns-live-action-movie-and-tv.html

I like this part:
"Guardians of the Galaxy movie director James Gunn thought the spaceknights could be in the MCU. “ROM, the story, is owned by Marvel Comics,” Gunn explained to Screen Rant in 2017. “So the Dire Wraiths, you know, all that story is owned by Marvel Comics. The character and the toys are owned by Paramount, so you can’t have both. "

I did not remember this either:

That appears to be pretty much what I just said if you'd take time to comprehend what you're reading.


I've sold most issues of Rom on CCL for a buck and under. Even with a couple higher dollar one's mixed in it's still not worth the cost of an omnibus and even #1 already has a cheap facsimile out so even that one can be had cheap now.




Once again, if you read your own words it appears your excitement" is about


Not one mention of you being excited about variant covers and you went further to say you were NOT excited about the IDW stuff.

I don't see anything here saying these variant covers are anything relating to the original Marvel years or that you expected them to be.

As you should be well aware, you can expect all the variant covers to most likely end up in the dollar bins and here at CCL which simply means as stated the first time,

so, yes, I would tell my customers not to piss money away on something they didn't feel they had to have when it's almost certain if they want it at all, it can be had later at dump it prices. Buy the book for what's inside. If there's a particular cover you like, get that one which I mentioned in the first post. But don't piss away money on stuff you don't really love just to feed Marvel.

You shouldn't feed the trolls, bro. It just encourages them.

I tried to search for ROM here, but with this new update, it was too much of a PITA, so I went to a competing site, where I was able to quickly and easily search for the title. #31 is the second Rogue, right? What about 17 and 18? They sell well at all?

If I recall correctly, there are a couple Miller covers in there, too, right? Heck, they might BE 17 and 18.

Also still can't find Sleepwalker in the search.