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Silver Surfer #3: The Power and the Prize!

24 Friday Feb 2012

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Essential Silver Surfer, Fantasy Masterpieces, John Buscema, Mephisto, Power and the Prize, Silver Surfer, Silver Surfer 3, Silver Surfer Masterworks, Silver Surfer Omnibus, Stan Lee

We recently tuned into a podcast at Stash My Comics to hear Paul “Longbox Graveyard” O’Connor review one of our favorite comics: Silver Surfer Vol. 1, #3. Paul extolls the virtues of Silver Surfer in his review. He also points out that the Surfer’s series lost its direction after the first few incredible issues. An interview with John Buscema in Jack Kirby Collector #18 confirms that Stan Lee knew this. John recalled, “Many years later, Stan told me at lunch one day, ‘John, I just didn’t know what the hell to do with the damn thing. I didn’t know what direction we were going.'”

Read the whole Buscema interview at TwoMorrows Publishing. It also includes Buscema’s recollections on copying layouts from Kirby’s panels, and Stan’s furious deconstruction of Buscema’s masterful work on Silver Surfer #4. (Later, Stan would tell John it was the greatest thing they ever did!)

But the answer was right in front of Stan the whole time: Get the “Sentinel of the Spaceways” back into outer space where he belonged! It wasn’t until 1987, nearly twenty years after this landmark issue, that Steve Englehart worked out the solution to give the Surfer direction once again. In Silver Surfer Vol. 2, #1, Englehart and Marshall Rogers got the Surfer past the barrier of Galactus for good.

Astute collectors will find that the original pages 6, 7, 26, and 30 are missing from the Fantasy Masterpieces reprint. The missing pages include this awesome splash page of demonic lovelies.

Despite losing direction, Stan Lee and John Buscema would unite once more for one of Marvel’s greatest visual accomplishments: The Silver Surfer graphic novel, Judgment Day. Judgment Day (also available in paperback) features splash panel after splash panel of glorious Buscema artwork. It pits the Silver Surfer against Mephisto once again. And, just to top the hellfire-and-brimstone extravaganza of Silver Surfer #3, this time Galactus gets involved! Satan versus the Big G? We’re there! You can read a fun review on Take Back What You Said About Thor.

Collector’s Guide: If you need a copy of Silver Surfer #3 for yourself — and believe us, you do — then here is a list of every time Marvel has printed it. Have fun shopping!

– From Silver Surfer #3; Marvel Comics, September 1968.
– Reprinted in Fantasy Masterpieces Vol. 2, #3; 1979. (missing 4 original pages)
– Reprinted in the Silver Surfer Omnibus Vol. 1
– Reprinted in the HardCover Silver Surfer Masterworks #1, a 2003 Paperback version, and a 2010 Paperback.
– Reprinted in black and white in Essential Silver Surfer, Vol. 1, Edition 1 and in Edition 2.















What New and Savage Madness Is This?!

15 Thursday Sep 2011

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Essential Silver Surfer, Herb Trimpe, Inhumans, Jack Kirby, Silver Surfer, Stan Lee

Collector’s Guide: From Silver Surfer Vol. 1, #18: To Smash The Inhumans! Reprinted in the Essential Silver Surfer #1 in black and white.

Jack Kirby‘s only artwork on this series. Stan Lee script + Herb Trimpe inks; Marvel Comics, 1970.

Let Mankind Beware!

26 Saturday Feb 2011

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Essential Silver Surfer, Jack Kirby, Silver Surfer

The original Silver Surfer series from 1968 ended with this cataclysmic declaration by the Surfer that he was fed up with moping around and being Mr. Nice Guy to the humans! Jack Kirby, the man who created the Silver Surfer, drew the final issue: a senseless battle against the Inhumans drenched in Kirby Krackle, techno-gadgets galore, and lots of referring to one’s self in the third person!

This black and white art comes from The Essential Silver Surfer TPB by Marvel Comics. Considering it would cost you a grand or two to get the original issues in NM or VF condition, the moderately priced Essentials is a steal of a deal! If edition one is out of stock, try the second edition.

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