The back of his box has a brief biography about the character: The Silver Surfer was $19.99 before sales tax. He is so shiny! The pictures I saw of the Silver Surfer before his release made him look a little bland, but this gleaming guy is much more appealing in person. That opinion quickly changed when I saw him in person. I knew the Silver Surfer was starting to show up exclusively in Walgreens stores, but I was not sure if I wanted to add him to my collection.
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However, with the sheer number of new figures Hasbro has released this year, I have become pickier in which action figures I purchase. Good storytelling comes from a variety of artistic mediums and the comic book format is just as valid as prose fiction, poetry, film or television.I collect a lot of Marvel Legends figures. Buscema’s art is what I imagined The Silver Surfer to look like. Stan Lee has created one of Marvel’s most interesting superheroes, and the artwork of John Buscema fits the story.
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I plan the read the entire Masterworks collection of both volumes to learn more about Silver Surfer. How does one serve a God whose existence depends on destroying civilizations in order to survive? What makes one turn against your master to save humanity? Are human beings prone to self-destruction despite being helped by something bigger than themselves? Those questions came to mind while reading this first issue. Lee’s writing has the over-the-top comic book style, but there is a deeper layer that’s worth exploring. Galactus imprisoned Silver Surfer to Earth, and he suffered from that punishment. Silver Surfer discovered Earth and had a change of heart to keep Galactus from destroying it. Radd sacrificed himself to save his planet and was transformed into the Silver Surfer to find more planets to curb Galactus’ hunger. Zenn-La was a paradise until Galactus arrived and wanted to devour the planet in order to feed himself. The first issue detailed the origin story of Norrin Radd from the planet Zenn-La.
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I recently bought the Kindle version of Silver Surfer Masterworks Collection Volume 1 covering the first six issues of the original series from 1968. Also, in the Masterworks Collection, Volume 1 wrote that Silver Surfer was his favorite Marvel character, and those stories spoke the closest to his worldview. Stan Lee has admitted publicly that he drew on his Judaism faith as inspiration for Silver Surfer and Galactus. Prose fiction commands most of my reading these days, but I’ve always had a fondness to go back and re-read those Silver Surfer comic books from the late 1960s-early 1970s. It has been awhile since I’ve read comic books.
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Also, I always found his relationship with the world-devourer, Galactusintriguing and something worth studying in depth. The cosmic super hero was different with his silver surfboard and philosophical musings about humanity that drew me in. The Silver Surfer (along with Icon) were my favorite comic books. I read Avengers, Green Lantern Mosaic, Green Arrow, The Spectre, Sandman, and Icon (from Milestone Comics) during that time. It was mostly Marvel and DC Comics with a few independent comic book publishers like Image, Dark Horse, and Valiant Comics. As a teenager, I had a huge comic book collection.