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Continuing with our gallery of SILVER SURFER covers, we take up where we left off last time, which was SS #7. That means we start this little session with #8 through #12, with #13 to #18 still to come in the next post. Hope you'll join us then, but in the meantime enjoy these five covers by JOHN BUSCEMA.
Although Big John only drew the first seventeen issues in the series, they're clearly superior to the eighteenth and last ish illustrated by JACK KIRBY, which was intended as the first in a new direction for the title. Clearly, then, even with an artist of Buscema's calibre, sales weren't as good as they could've been, hence the change in approach. I can only speculate that the Kirby last issue did even worse in sales, hence the reason why the planned 'Savage Silver Surfer' plotline never materialised. After all, why flog a dead horse and throw good money after bad?
More on this in an upcoming post. Don't miss it!