- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema (credited)
- Colors
- Bill Everett ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In far-off, enchanted Asgard--lost in his own sinister thoughts, sits Loki, god of evil, prince of conjurers!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Thor [Donald Blake; Thor Odinson]; Odin; Balder; Sif; Heimdall; Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]; Loki (villain); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); the Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Toag, Tomazooma The Living Totem (cameo); Hercules (cameo); Zeus (cameo); Shalla Bal (in flashback); Mephisto (in flashback); Galactus (in flashback)
- 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
- in Conan (Semic, 1973 series) #4/1974
- in Thor (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #10, #11, #12
- in Fantask (Editions Lug, 1969 series) #3 (5 avril 1969) [Seulement 33 pages [33 pages only]]
- in L'Incredibile Devil (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #6 (16 Luglio 1970) [part 1], #7 (30 Luglio 1970) [part 2]
- in TV21 (City Magazines, 1970 series) #66 (26th December 1970), #67 (2nd January 1971), #68 (9th January 1971), #69 (16th January 1971), #70 (23rd January 1971), #71 (30th January 1971)
- in The Super-Heroes (Marvel UK, 1975 series) #8 (1975), #7 (April 19, 1975)
- in Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles (Simon and Schuster, 1978 series) (1978)
- in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #7 (10 août 1978) [19 premières pages/First 19 pages], #8 (10 septembre 1978) [20 dernières pages/last 20 pages]
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1979 series) #4 (March 1980) [36 pp.]
- in Marvel Strip (Forum [Forum-Marketprint], 1982 series) #8 (03. Decembar 1982.)
- in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #163 (5 juillet 1983)
- in Mighty Marvel Team-Up Thrillers (Marvel, 1983 series) (1983)
- in Grandes Heróis Marvel (Editora Abril, 1983 series) #16
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 ([September] 1990)
- in Marvel Klassik (Panini Deutschland, 1998 series) #2
- in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 1998) [black & white]
- in Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema (Marvel, 2006 series) (2006)
- in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
- 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 Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
- in Marvel-Verse: Loki (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
- in Loki Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021)
- Keywords
- Asgard; Bifrost; Cavern of Shadows
In the letters page of Sub-Mariner #19 Roy Thomas notes that Bill Everett was colorist for "recent issues" of the Silver Surfer.
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Howard Purcell (credited)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (credited)
- Colors
- Bill Everett ?
- Letters
- Herb Cooper (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many are the wonders of the vast universe, but none so fantastic as... Tim Boo Ba!
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Tim Boo Ba
- Synopsis
- Alien warlord Tim Boo Ba is master of all he surveys but is wiped out in a torrential flood when an Earth boy drips water on the small scale model that is Tim Boo Ba's home planet.
- Reprints
A retelling of "The Terror of Tim Boo Ba" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy #9 (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962).
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan and John, I have just finished reading the Silver Surfer #2 and I am thrilled and pleased.
- Reprints
Letters of comment from Tom Brown; D. D. Toman; Gary Anderson; Doug Fratz; Brian Carlson; Dennis Lien; Evan Katten. Also includes "Know ye these, the hallowed ranks of Marveldom."