Fantasy Masterpieces
#4
[Direct]
(March 1980)
Marvel,
1979 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief); Danny Fingeroth (credited) (reprint editor); Stan Lee (original)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Silver Surfer / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Silver Surfer; Thor
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
from The Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #4 (February 1969) - in Marvel Masterworks: The Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010) [Reprint in book is from the Newsstand variant.]
-
Indexer Notes
Cover taken from an unaltered stat.
Cover has been recolored for this reprint (most notably the Bifrost bridge is not rainbow colored).
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1979 series) #4 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1096/w200/1096521.jpg?5625775015142556)
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The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny!
Silver Surfer / comic story / 36 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema (credited)
- Colors
- Andy Yanchus (sourced)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can endure it no longer!
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Warriors Three: Fandral; Hogun; Volstagg
Balder; Galactus [Galan] (flashback) (cameo); Heimdall; Hercules (cameo); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); Loki; Mephisto (flashback) (cameo); Odin; Shalla-Bal (flashback) (cameo); Sif; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomazooma Robot (cameo); Zeus (cameo) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Loki tries to deceive the Surfer into helping him take down his brother, Thor, god of thunder. After a short battle with Thor, the Silver Surfer suspects that everything is not quite what it seems, but before he has a chance to talk to Thor, Loki teleports the Surfer back to Earth.
- Reprints
- from The Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #4 (February 1969) [36 pp.]
-
- Keywords
- Asgard; Bifrost
Indexer Notes
Page 12, 22 and 29 edited from original story.
The splash page has altered credits and an additional caption circle.
Original page 13 (reprint page 12), panel 1 has altered text and word balloons.
Original page 23 (reprint page 21), panel 1 has an added caption.
Some panels are recolored for this reprint (e.g. Shalla-Bal's outfit, order of colors in the Bifrost bridge, etc.).
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