Talk:Rom

What Marvel own

No, seriously, they own everything except the toy and stuff that came with the toy. Go look at the Annihilators miniseries from a couple of years back on Comixology - it features not just Spaceknights, but Galador, the Dire Wraiths & their black sun and even ROM's girlfriend! - SanityOrMadness (talk) 11:04, 29 November 2013 (EST)

Just because they're using that material doesn't mean they actually have the rights to it. Everything Marvel produced for Hasbro's tie-in comics is, after all, owned by Hasbro; while it's possible Parker Brothers got a shoddier contract than Hasbro did, it's just as likely that Marvel's kept using Rom-related material because nobody on the toy side of things has cared about Rom since 1979. Until recently, anyway. (If nothing else, Marvel didn't actually create the Dire Wraiths: they were mentioned in a Parker Bros. Toy Fair promo video that Jim Shooter admitted he saw during the initial licensing negotiations, and IIRC some Rom letter columns said they were slated to come out from Parker as a toy.)

In any case, the full scope of Rom's various legal issues are both above our pay-grades and beyond our relevancy, and I think the current write-up suffices. --Monzo (talk) 15:52, 29 November 2013 (EST)

IDW Publishing

IDW is going to be releasing an ongoing series of Rom the Spaceknight and the Micronauts in 2016. --Darth Gonzo (talk) 03:04, 20 July 2015 (EST)