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The Silver Surfer
Cover to Annihilation: Silver Surfer #2
Gabriele Dell'Otto, 2005
A Marvel Comics superhero, The Silver Surfer first appeared in The Fantastic Four #48 in March, 1966. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the Surfer was originally Norrin Radd, a young astronomer of the planet Zenn-La. He agreed to serve as herald to the god-like entity Galactus in order to save Zenn-La from the world devourer's insatiable hunger. Granted enormous cosmic powers, a silvery appearance and a surfboard-like vehicle, the Silver Surfer roamed the cosmos, searching for new planets for Galactus to consume.
In the classic “The Coming of Galactus” story arc in Fantastic Four #48-50 from 1966, the Silver Surfer encountered Earth's Fantastic Four and betrayed Galactus, who doomed him to exile on Earth. The Surfer appeared in a late 1960s spin-off series, a second, more cosmically themed series with a freed Surfer from 1987 until 1998, and a third series in 2003.
The Surfer will appear alongside the Fantastic Four in the 2007 sequel to the 2005 film, entitled Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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