RETRO HUNDRED WORD HIT #6 - ROM #17

Rom #17 by Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema

Cerebro notices a huge spike in new mutant activity so the X-Men set off to investigate.

Rom is in Clairton, West Virginia hunting Dire Wraiths and comes across Jacob Marks, a wraith who has been hiding in human form for years. 

Turns out Marks spent so long as a human that he fell in love, got married and had a kid.  And his human/wraith child is what set Cerebro off. 

The X-Men turn up, think Rom’s the baddie and predictably fight.

This was so wordy it was practically a short story - I read it in three sittings!!

Rating 7 out of 10