Rom #14

Rom #14 (January 1981) pits Marvel's silver-armored Space Knight against two of his most formidable foes yet, as the cover's bold tagline announces: "Fall, Rom, before the power of the Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android!" Dave Cockrum's cover delivers that threat in striking fashion — a massive red humanoid Android looms over a pinned and struggling Rom while a dark-haired figure fights alongside the fallen hero, the composition angled to make the Android feel genuinely overwhelming. With Bill Mantlo scripting and Sal Buscema handling art duties inside, this is the kind of cosmic-meets-street-level Marvel storytelling that made the series a standout of its era.