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Following his introduction on the Fantastic Four, The Silver Surfer appeared in several more issues, winning his own solo series from Stan Lee and John Buscema in 1968 (the final issue of Jack Kirby’s Art). The series began primarily as a finished story and a few two putters. There was a comprehensive plot that looked like Mephisto was messing around with the surfers, manipulating him, especially with regard to Sharabal. When the series was cancelled, the storyline remained unfinished and was featured again in the mid-70s in the Fantastic Four Ark.
Then, in 1982, a one-shot appeared as the second volume of Silver Surfer by Stan Lee, John Byrne, Tom Palmer and Rick Parker, closing the thread hanging from the first volume, and on the surface set a new direction for the surfer.
“But why am I covered in a sea of self-compassion?”
This was the first of three famous, largely artist-led silver surfers stories Stan Lee wrote over the ’80s. The special essentially draws conclusions on the previous First Surfer Solo series. With a summary of his origins and his arrival on Earth. It then twists everything by influencing Galactos’ rebellion on Earth, following up on Latoberia’s supposed doppelganger Sharaval thread. Through it, he ultimately reveals Mephisto as his nemesis.
Lee really makes it ham with his narration and dialogue, turning the story into a kind of melodrama, but it works. It changes, in particular, into tragedy, a somewhat ironic downfall of surfers’ behavior, and the range of Galactus, Doom and Mephisto. Interestingly, it is the semi-permeability of the barriers of galactos around the globe. Narration and dialogue trains Rick Parker with his letter. The size looks a little smaller than the other books, but it’s not out of place.
John Byrne’s art is interesting here. During his career, he has been set at once between his legendary X-Men and his run at Fantastic Four. Although he is not as familiar to his style as he later works, he is still very solid. For me, it feels like he’s trying to match some of John Buscema’s previous work in the first series. Especially about how Byrne portrays Mephisto here. It also nods to Kirby with some cosmic effects. An approach to color palettes reminiscent of smooth, thick lines held by Tom Palmer’s inks and a more simple choice from the previous look and series.
“Free! Finally free, enjoy once more of a second experience of soaring through an infinite space!”
Silver Surfer Volume 2 #1 by Lee, Byrne, Palmer and Parker worked on the new status quo set up of Silver Surfer, tying his first series and loose ends of the past decade, freeing him among the stars, and defeating Galactus’ dict. It’s full of waxing his most Shakespearean with his most purple prose (I mean this as a composure; it’s redundant and excessive, but it’s very interesting) and the surfer’s light-like scale with truths about Mephisto, Galactus, and Sharaval on Earth. He pulls the rug from underneath him, crushing the idea of a new status quo, and sends the surfer back to his ground prison.
It set the surfer as an even more tragic hero. This time he was imprisoned by choice. And he quickly continued to stroll alongside the defender. Byrne used the Surfer again during his own Fantastic Four Run, and he became part of the Second Secret War, but the ongoing saga never actually resumed until the third volume of Silver Surfer over 30 years after Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers.
Classic Comic Computation: Silver Surfer – Volume 2 #1
Silver Surfer – Volume 2 #1
Authors: Stan Lee (Script) & John Byrne (Plot)
Pensiller: John Byrne
Inker & Colourist: Tom Palmer
Letter: Rick Parker
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Release date: February 16, 1982
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