Loved ROM, and always ached for that Parker Brothers action figure!

If done right, I also think ROM: SPACEKNIGHT would make a fantastic film, animated or otherwise.

My paternal step-Grandmother worked at a convenience store and would pick up a pile of the current comics whenever we were going to see her and my Grandfather.  My first exposure to a lot of titles and characters was thanks to her. 

As you can probably guess, one of those titles was ROM.  My first issue was #43, where ROM was in a clone of his human form and Quasimodo was using ROM's spaceknight body.  Then I got #45, part one of a two parter with the Soviet Super Soldiers.  The one issue I remember buying when the series was coming out was #46, which I spotted in a gas station two-pack sometime after I had received #45.  I wanted the conclusion of the story. :-)  It took several years for me to find out how ROM got back in his body in time for the beginning of #45. 

I got #50, the impact of which was totally lost on me since I didn't know who any of these West Virginia characters were.  (I remember getting it after I'd been given a copy of OHOTMU #14, so I knew poor Torpedo wasn't going to be lasting too long after he showed up in the issue.)  Then annual #3 with the New Mutants (with two covers!) and #61 with the Beginning of the End and that was about it for me.   

I liked the series well enough, and the back-ups in #50 made me want to see what I had misssed, but funds were limited and it didn't make the cut.

Eventually, I ended up getting the whole run.  Nicely mysterious opening issue.  I was pretty surprised that the Dire Wraiths I was most familiar with (the sorcerous ones with the barbed tongues) didn't even show up until the late #40s.  I liked that the series was close ended.  As much fun as it is to follow characters for years and years, there's nothing wrong with a series with an honest beginning, middle and end.  (Frankly, I wish more cancelled books would put similar thought into their final issues.) 

Every once in awhile there would be a bit of cringe inducing dialogue (if I see someone say "Greatest of the Spaceknights" one more time...), but overall this is just a solid enjoyable series.  Maybe not on my personal top 10, but if I ever started divesting myself of my comics it would be a long while before I got rid of this one.