Silver Surfer Omnibus

    (Marvel, 2007)
™ and © 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc.

Where else but the 1960s could you create a super-hero based on a popular fad at the time, surfing? That’s exactly what Stan Lee did. From the pages of the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer came exiled on the planet Earth from his home world of Zenn-La in order to protect them. There’s much more to this indepth story and this omnibus collects the classic 18-issue first series from the late 1960s. The mysterious Silver Surfer has always maintained popularity and even featured prominently in the second Fantastic Four feature film from 2007.

— Mark Arnold

From the Publisher:

Combining a masterwork of Marvel fiction by Stan Lee with a stunning exposition of epic art by John Buscema, Silver Surfer is one of the most accomplished efforts to come from the talents of these two comic legends! Taking the word "epic" to unknown reaches, Silver Surfer was launched in 1968 as a series of bi-monthly, 40-page stories with a cosmic scope, its polished, high-concept art and Stan’s hyper-literate dialogue representing another step towards the Marvel Age of Comics

In the timeless tales of the original Silver Surfer series, we meet Norrin Radd, a seeker of knowledge, of adventure, of something beyond the life of enforced mundanity doled out on his home world of Zenn-La. He would get all that and more…but at a price he could never have dared imagine! Transformed from mortal into the galaxy-spanning Silver Surfer the price of saving his world from Galactus, is forced conscription into service as the world-devourer’s herald.

But his compassion for the sanctity of all life would not keep him in this role for long. Defying the very god that gave him the power cosmic, the Surfer finds himself exiled on planet Earth as punishment for his transgressions. Noble beyond all measures of mortal man, he is mistrusted and hounded by the humans of Earth, even as he invariably cast as the only being who can help protect them. Even his most ardent nemesis, Mephisto, proclaims the Surfer’s "goodness of soul" and "purity of spirit." Unfortunately, for a martyr to a cause he never claimed as his own, the stories in this volume recount the many different ways those traits will be the Surfer’s downfall!

In the high adventures with a philisophical bent that await you within this deluxe hardcover volume, you’ll witness the Surfer’s confrontations, commiserations and clashes with the likes of Thor and the warriors of Asgard, the raw power of the gamma-irradiated Abomination, the cosmic ways of the inscrutable Stranger, and the super-hero crossovers with Spider-Man and the Human Torch. Plus, the classic matches between Surfer and Mephisto, Stan and John’s most literal rendering of Biblical fervor to be found in the Marvel Age!

All 18 issues, including the series ender drawn by Surfer creator Jack Kirby, are included in this lovingly restored and remastered Omnibus volume, complete with original letters pages and a host of extras that will sate the cosmic appetite of you and any star-spanning surfers you may know!
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