The Silver Surfer #2

(October 1968)

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Pencils

John Buscema; Gene Colan

Inks

Joe Sinnott; Paul Reinman

Letters

?

Characters

Silver Surfer; Krills

When Lands the Saucer! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

Joe Sinnott

Colors

Bill Everett ?

Letters

Sam Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In all the world, there is no place for me!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Badoon Brotherhood (first appearance, villains); Shalla Bal

Synopsis

The Badoon come to Earth to conquer but find greater adventure in hunting the Silver Surfer.

Reprints

• in Fantask (Editions Lug, 1969 series) #2 (mars 1969)
• in L'Incredibile Devil (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #2 (21 Maggio 1970) [part 1], #3 (4 Giugno 1970) [part 2], #4 (18 Giugno 1970) [part 3]
• in Marvel Presents (Marvel, 1975 series) #8 (December 1976) [in part]
which is reprinted
• in Titans (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #11 (10 novembre 1977)
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #3 (10 avril 1978) [20 premières pages/First 20 pages], #4 (10 mai 1978) [20 dernières pages/Last 20 pages]
• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1979 series) #2 (January 1980)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 ([September] 1990)
• in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 1998)
• in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([May] 2007)
• in Guardians of the Galaxy: The Power of Starhawk (Marvel, 2009 series) (2009)
• 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 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 Conan (Semic, 1973 series) #2/1974
• in Thor (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #4, #5, #6
• in Marvel Klassik (Panini Deutschland, 1998 series) #2

Keywords

invisibility; spaceship

Indexer Notes

Part Two (20 pp.) is entitled: "Let Earth Be the Prize!" 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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The Coming of the Krills! (Table of Contents: 5)

The Watcher / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

Bill Everett ?

Letters

Sam Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am... the Watcher!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); radar technician [unnamed]; Lou; Krills (from the Ninth Galaxy)

Synopsis

A radar operator turns off Earth's defenses when alien Krill offer him the most beautiful woman in the universe, but he finds out too late that she is only beautiful to them.

Reprints

• in Seriebladet (Nordisk Forlag, 1973 series) #4/1974 (uke 14 1974)
• in Star Wars Weekly (Marvel UK, 1978 series) #18 (7 June 1978) [pages 1-4]
• in Planet of the Apes (Marvel UK, 1974 series) #15
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #3

Keywords

alien invasion; armada

Indexer Notes

This is a retelling of "The Coming of the Krills" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #8 (January 1962) and of "Shock!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #47 (November 1963).

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