Source: i09.com
4. Rom, Spaceknight
Whom? Rom, Spaceknight is one of those licensed Marvel comics that was better than it had any right to be. After all, no one even really remembers the toy, just the Marvel additions. Or the IDW additions I guess, now that he’s over there.
But Marvel created the Spaceknights, the Dire Wraiths, all that back-story stuff.
Why He’ll Never Appear: Oh, yeah, because Marvel doesn’t own him anymore. That’s all Hasbro. We might potentially see Spaceknights (or not – I don’t actually know what the deal is there), or Dire Wraiths, but Rom? No way, no how. Not until Disney buys Hasbro and becomes the all-consuming entertainment monolith we all know it will be.
Although Rom was a weirdly big part of the Marvel Universe for a while, issues over the rights to the character have made reprinting those books impossible, and that’s sad. I would love for some sort of deal to be struck along the lines of the deal that finally reprinted the Transformers issue that featured Spider-Man.
