Dweller on the Threshold

Few corners of the Marvel Bronze Age feel quite as eerie as the cosmic horror territory staked out by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema in Rom, and the Dweller on the Threshold — introduced in 1983's Rom #40 — belongs squarely to that unsettling frontier. A presence ominous enough to earn such a name shares the page with some of the series' heaviest hitters: Rom himself, Starshine, Torpedo, and the sinister Doctor Dredd. With appearances collected across both the Rom Epic Collection and the landmark Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, this figure endures as a genuine artifact of one of Marvel's most imaginative Bronze Age runs — a rare, atmospheric piece of comics history worth tracking down for any serious collector of the era.