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Greg Nock
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I'm only familiar with the Silver Surfer through guest-appearances (and his ridiculously difficult Nintendo game), but this thread has made me want to seek out his first solo series…even if only for the art!
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Conner Dinkins
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The art was some beautiful stuff, but he was lamenting all the time about how sad and tragic he was. I always liked the look of the Surfer in a trenchcoat though.
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Wallace Sellars
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My favorite story featuring the Silver Surfer may be the one where he battles
Ben Grimm.
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Greg Kirkman
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My favorite story featuring the Silver Surfer may be the one where he
battles Ben Grimm.
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I take it you're referring to FANTASTIC FOUR # 55? Yeah, that's a good
one. Just read it, a few weeks back.
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Marc Cheek
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I always liked the Surfer. Part of that appeal was probably due to the fact that when I first got into comics, it was during Stan's moratorium limiting his use, so it was a rare thing to have the Surfer in a comic.
I first read the original series when the first 10 issues or so were reprinted in 1979-80. The dialogue now seems overdone and sappy (typical Stan Lee) and the Surfer's continual self-loathing and naivety toward mankind gets old very quickly. It was probably some of John Buscema's best artwork though, so it has that going for it.
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Andrew W. Farago
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One of the first Kirby comics I ever owned! Got this for fifty cents at cards & comics show at the Holiday Inn in Elyria, Ohio twenty-something years ago. Such a great introduction to Kirby's FF.
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Jonathan Watkins
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My first exposure to The Silver Surfer and the Fantastic Four was through a collection of early issues. It was an odd trade, since the selection of what issues would be included seemed rather random. It started with the issue where The Thing trashes a hot rod Johnny is working on, and Johnny ends up encountering the homeless Sub-Mariner. Then it skipped to the appearance of The Silver Surfer falling into Alicia's apartment (dim memory here, but that's his first appearance, right?) and the issue where Reed uses the Ultimate Nullifier to convince Galactus to leave-- but then it skipped to an issue with Johnny trying his utmost to burn through a dome that I think was erected around the Inhumans' city.
At any rate, even with the disjointed narrative of the trade, it was those several issues that sparked an appetite in me for those characters. Especially The Silver Surfer. He was so alien, so weird, and yet he had the most nobly human arc.
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Robert Bradley
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For me, this was Marvel's creative peak -
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Eric Smearman
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I think the Black Racer's ski motif would be cooler if he didn't have ski
poles. That touch made the idea seem a bit to literal. YMMV.
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