Issue(s): ROM #60
Cover Date: Nov 84
Title: "The eyes of a child!"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Steve Ditko - Penciler
Tom Palmer - Inker

Review/plot:
ROM, Starshine, and Rick Jones investigate a train that was attacked by Dire Wraiths during the blizzard caused when the Casket of Ancient Winters was broken.

They discover a massacre.

There is only one survivor: a young girl named Cindy Adams. A Wraith was in mid-mindsuck when Cindy's mother cut off its tongue.

Cindy managed to survive (unlike her mother) but she now has prophetic visions where the Wraiths bring their Black Sun to our solar system. Oddly, Rick Jones has been having similar dreams.

Earlier issues of ROM benefited from the fact that Sal Buscema was doing some of his best work on them. Since Steve Ditko took over, the art hasn't been as good. But this issue is inked by Tom Palmer, and i really like it a lot.

There's a nostalgia factor, though. This was my first issue of ROM. It came in a 3-pack with two other books (Hulk #298 and something else, possibly Avengers #246). The creepy abilities of the Dire Wraiths really captured my imagination.

Starshine's powers are apparently such that she's able to hold off the Casket blizzard in the area immediately around her.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 2 - first Cindy Adams.

Chronological Placement Considerations: The snow storm has been going on for "nigh unto a week". I didn't realize it lasted that long, but to be safe i'm making this book the last of the Casket of Ancient Winters crossover books. Most of the book actually takes place "some days later" after the storm has passed and rescue workers can make it to the stranded train.

References:

• All comics referring to the Casket of Ancient Winters story give a footnote for Thor #349. I don't know why that is; it was #348 where the Casket was actually broken.
  
• While Starshine is once again dwelling on the tragedy in her past, we see scenes from ROM #1 and ROM #40, when she became a Spaceknight, as well as other more generic scenes. No footnotes.
  
• Rick Jones got cancer when he tried to turn himself into a second Hulk in Hulk #269-270.

Crossover: Casket of Ancient Winters

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Mais, POURQUOI Tom Palmer ne fut pas l'encreur officiel pour le reste misérable de cette série reprise par un dessinateur, Steve Ditko, peut-être valable dans les années 60, mais après...

Babelfish translation of Denis' comment:
But why Tom Palmer was not l\' ink official for the miserable remains of this series by a cartoonist, Steve Ditko, perhaps valid in the 1960s, but after...