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Silver Surfer, Volume 3
''Silver Surfer'' or ''The Silver Surfer'' is the name of several series of comic books published by Marvel Comics featuring the Silver Surfer. Publication history Volume 1 The first series, ''The Silver Surfer'', was published beginning in 1968 and was written by Stan Lee with art by John Buscema (#1–17) and Jack Kirby (#18). Villains introduced in the series include Mephisto in issue #3 (Dec. 1968). Spider-Man guest-starred in issue #14 (March 1970). Encounters with Thor, Loki, and The Human Torch are also some of the notable things that take place within this volume. The series ended after 18 issues, running from August, 1968 to September, 1970. ''The Silver Surfer : The Ultimate Cosmic Experience'' by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Joe Sinnott was published in September 1978 as part of the Marvel Fireside Books series and is considered to be one of the first true "graphic novels." Volume 2 In 1982 Marvel published a ''Silver Surfer'' one-shot by Stan Lee, John Byrne, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buscema
John Buscema ( ; born Giovanni Natale Buscema, ; December 11, 1927 – January 10, 2002)Social Security Death Index for Buscema, John N., Social Security Number 108-20-9641. was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major popular culture, pop-culture Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'' and ''The Silver Surfer (comic book), Silver Surfer'', and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he penciller, pencilled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Slott
Daniel "Dan" Slott (born July 3, 1967) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on Marvel Comics books such as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', as well as ''The Superior Spider-Man'', ''She-Hulk'', ''Silver Surfer (comic book), Silver Surfer'', ''Tony Stark: Iron Man'', ''The Mighty Avengers'', and ''Fantastic Four''. His work for DC Comics includes the books ''Arkham Asylum: Living Hell'' and ''Batman Adventures''. Career Early writing Dan Slott's first published work for Marvel was "Survival of the Hippest" in ''Mighty Mouse'' #10 and "To Bounce or Not to Bounce", an eight-page backup story in ''New Warriors Annual'' #1 both cover dated July 1991. He became the regular writer for Marvel's ''The Ren & Stimpy Show#Comic books, Ren & Stimpy'' comic book series with that series debut issue (Dec. 1992) and first wrote Spider-Man in an issue of ''Ren and Stimpy'' that saw Spider-Man in battle against the Powdered Toast Man. Following this, Slott wrote other children's comics, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual Publications
Annual publications, more often simply called annuals, are periodical publications appearing regularly once per year."Annuals", in ''Encyclopedia of library and information science'' (1968), vol. 1, pp. 434–447. Although exact definitions may vary, types of annuals include: calendars and almanacs, Business directory, directories, yearbooks, annual reports, Conference proceeding, proceedings and transactions and literary annuals. A weekly or monthly publication may produce an ''Annual'' featuring similar materials to the regular publication. Some encyclopedias have published annual Supplement (publishing), supplements that essentially summarize the news of the past year, similar to some newspaper yearbooks. To libraries and collectors, annuals present challenges of size (tens or hundreds of volumes) and completeness (acquiring a sequence with no missing volumes). They are handled similar to serial publications, which typically means a single library catalog record for the title, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalla Bal
Shalla-Bal is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, the immortal Empress of Zenn-La and the lover of Norrin Radd, the Silver Surfer. When he becomes the Herald of Galactus in exchange for his planet being spared, the lovers are separated for eternity. Shalla-Bal will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film '' The Fantastic Four: First Steps'' (2025), played by Julia Garner. This version will be portrayed as the Silver Surfer. Publication history The character first appeared in '' The Silver Surfer'' #1 (August 1968), created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Buscema. Shalla-Bal is depicted as the love interest of Norrin Radd. In a 1975 storyline in ''Fantastic Four'', Shalla-Bal was trapped in the form of a Latverian peasant girl named Helena by Mephisto, and married Doctor Doom, until in a 1982 ''Silver Surfer'' one-shot, the Surfer discovers this deception and frees her from Mephisto's trap. In the 2016 ''Silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Palmer (comics)
Thomas John Palmer (July 13, 1941 – August 18, 2022) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker for Marvel Comics. Biography Although Tom Palmer created a small amount of penciling work (as well as some cover art and some coloring), the vast majority of his artistic output since the 1960s was as a comic book inker. Reminiscing about how he came to be an inker, Palmer recounted: Palmer's extensive work for Marvel Comics includes runs paired with pencilers Neal Adams on '' The Avengers'' and ''Uncanny X-Men''; Gene Colan, on titles such as ''Doctor Strange'', '' Daredevil'', and ''Tomb of Dracula''; and John Buscema, on ''The Avengers''. He also inked the entire run of John Byrne's '' X-Men: The Hidden Years''. Palmer is widely considered the definitive inker for Gene Colan, whose use of grey textures made his pencils notoriously difficult to ink in a way that did them justice. Colan has stated publishers never answered his requests to be paired with a speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Byrne (comics)
John Lindley Byrne (; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American comic book writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's ''X-Men'' and ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four''. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's ''Superman'' franchise with the Limited series (comics), limited series The Man of Steel (comics), ''The Man of Steel'', the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as a penciller, inker, letterer, and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the ''X-Men'' comics during his tenure on them, for story arcs including "Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past", and co-creating characters such as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth (character), Sabretooth, Shadow King, and Rachel Summers. Byrne launched his writing career in earnest with ''Fantastic Four'', also serving as penciler a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
