ROM #10-12 (1980)

Rom’s human friends Brandy and Steve are in jail, so Rom breaks them out and they go on the lam to try to recover his neutralizer weapon, which was stolen by Dire Wraiths.

But it turns out, he freed a Wraith disguised as Steve. Steve betrays him and Rom is captured by a U.S. Government agency that has been taken over by Wraiths. Obviously, they have trouble holding ROM in custody.

Jack of Hearts gets involved to protect the government’s interests, he fights with Rom and seemingly destroys him, but actually Rom is shot out of the sky and just gets knocked out and lands in the ocean.

Cliffhanger! Is he dead?

No.

No, of course he’s not dead.