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In the absence of ideas for anything interesting to write about at the moment, Crivs, here are a few more spectacular SILVER SURFER covers for you to feast your ever-hungry eyes on. These are the last of the 68 page (including covers) King-Size Surfers - next time up, I'll feature the 36 page issues. You'll soon have all 18 covers to pore over in this classic series, so don't let me ever hear you say that I never give you anything.
Look at that fluid JOHN BUSCEMA Surfer figure below. When JACK KIRBY introduced the HERALD Of GALACTUS a few years before, his Surfer was graceful and supple, and really looked as if he was riding his cosmic board. By the time this issue came out, Kirby's rendition of Norrin (whenever he drew him in the FF) was stiff and stilted and just didn't look right. Buscema was one of the few artists ever to 'out-Kirby' Kirby, and STAN LEE was right in choosing Big John for the job of illustrating ol' Norrin's own magazine - in my humble opinion.
2 comments:
Those 2/- stamps on the Silver Surfer covers sent a lightning bolt of nostalgia straight through my heart. I still remember buying those 68-page Silver Surfers, or at least n=most of them, from a stall in a street market in Aberdeen some summer Friday in the early seventies. Spent all the money I had, walked all the way home and back for more money, then spent some more money.
Great days. David Simpson
Thanks for commenting, David. I remember, also in the early '70s, you could still buy brand-new, pristine issues of the Surfer (from about #8 up) from spinner-racks in shops in Blackpool. That was around '73-'74, and there were still Kirby issues of the FF to be had as well. 1974 was the last time I was there, so for all I know, you might still have been able to get them for years after that. It was like going back in time. Great days indeed.
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