It's better to have loved and lost, than been turned into a cyborg and fought alien shapechangers for a couple centuries...

Kickass Michael Golden cover on this one: ROM #10, "Warrior Over Washington!" Written by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema. After freeing his friends Brandy Clark and Steve Jackson from jail, the Greatest of the Spaceknights leaves for Washington D.C. to try and recover his neutralizer. Brandy and ROM are pretty much in love already at this point, but he leaves her with her 'boyfriend,' since he's tragically given his humanity to become a cyborg.

ROM never had action figure variants, so there was no cheap-and-easy black repaint "stealth" version, so ROM shows up on radar. (Do other flying heroes in the Marvel Universe pop up on radar all the time? Or just the metal ones? I know the Hulk does when it's plot-convenient...) The Air Force launches interceptors, which are no match for ROM, but he gets shot from behind by a Dire Wraith hovercraft and taken captive. Meanwhile, back in Clairton, 'Steve' may be up to something...

For some reason as a kid, I seemed to enjoy ROM, but only read it on double-sized issues or annuals. Weird.