The Silver Surfer #3

(December 1968)

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Pencils

John Buscema; Gene Colan

Inks

Joe Sinnott; Paul Reinman

Letters

Sam Rosen

Characters

Silver Surfer; Mephisto

Indexer Notes

inside front cover utilizing images from interior stories.

The Power and the Prize! (Table of Contents: 2)

Silver Surfer / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

John Buscema (credited)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Colors

Bill Everett ?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's the Surfer! He's back!!

Genre

superhero; science fiction

Characters

Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Shalla Bal; Mephisto (first appearance); Demons

Synopsis

Mephisto captures Shalla Bal and tries to tempt the Surfer into joining him by using his one true love as bait.

Reprints

• in Conan (Semic, 1973 series) #3/1974
• in Thor (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #7, #8, #9
• in L'Incredibile Devil (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #4 (18 Giugno 1970) [Part 1], #5 (2 Luglio 1970) [Part 2], #6 (16 Luglio 1970) [Part 3]
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #13 (5 janvier 1971) [Pages 1 à 20/Pages 1 through 20], #14 (5 février 1971) [Pages 21 à 40/Pages 21 through 40]
• in The Super-Heroes (Marvel UK, 1975 series) #6 (1975), #6 (1975), #5 (April 5, 1975)
• in Bring on the Bad Guys: Origins of Marvel Comics Villains (Simon and Schuster, 1976 series) (1976)
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #5 (10 juin 1978) [20 premières pages/First 20 pages], #6 (10 juillet 1978) [20 dernières pages/Last 20 pages]
• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1979 series) #3 (February 1980)
• in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #151 (5 juillet 1982)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 ([September] 1990)
which is reprinted
• in Marvel : Les origines (Panini France, 2002 series) #3 (décembre 2004)
• in Marvel Klassik (Panini Deutschland, 1998 series) #2
• in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 1998) [black & white]
• in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
• in Sensational Spider-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #41 (December 2007) [pp. 8-20]
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
• in Marvel Gold: Estela Plateada de Stan Lee y John Buscema (Panini España, 2010 series) (abril 2010)
• in Marvel Classic (Panini France, 2015 series) #4 (janvier 2016)
• in Stan Lee Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016)
• in A Coleção Oficial de Graphic Novels Marvel: Clássicos (Salvat, 2015 series) #14 (Setembro 2016)
• in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #77 - Серебряный Серфер: Начало
• in Mephisto: Speak of the Devil (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)

Keywords

mystic vapors; Zenn-La

Indexer Notes

Part Two (20 pp.) entitled "Duel in the Depths." In the letters page of Sub-Mariner #19 Roy Thomas notes that Bill Everett was colorist for "recent issues" of the Silver Surfer.

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Why Won't They Believe Me? (Table of Contents: 12)

Tales of the Watcher / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Gene Colan (credited)

Inks

Paul Reinman (credited)

Colors

Bill Everett ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am the Watcher! I see all... I know all!

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Professor Crater; Zankor

Synopsis

A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught.

Reprints

• in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #31 (August 1975)
• in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #8 - La révolution (1er trimestre 1980)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)

Keywords

amnesia; spaceship

Indexer Notes

A retelling of "Why Won't They Believe Me?" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #7 (December 1961).

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Who Speaks for the Surfer? / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

Joe Sinnott

Colors

?

Letters

Sam Rosen; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan and Co., What can I say, except that Marvel ought to be mighty proud of Silver Surfer #1!

Characters

Silver Surfer

Reprints

• in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

Indexer Notes

letters section includes image from an earlier issue and letters from Anthony Kowalik, Michael Toman, Don Sampson, Bruce Coville, Marshall Carpenter, Jr., Evan Katten, Jeff Rosenthal and future comics writer Tony Isabella.

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