Silver Surfer was Norrin Radd, the young man from the planet Zenn-La who saved his home world from Galactus, the planet devourer, by agreeing to act as his herald. This resulted in Norrin flying through the cosmos announcing to various planets that they were about to be destroyed. He later turned on his master, defending the earth. Exiled to the blue planet he spent much of his time shaking his head, ruminating on existence and despairing at the inhumanity of mankind.
Silver Surfer first appeared in a Fantastic Four comic in 1966. When drawn by Jack Kirby a completely silver humanoid with no genitals on a surfboard sweeping through the cosmos, his speech coming from Stan Lee's scripts with him speaking in a kind of Shakespearean English, makes perfect sense.
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Marc Bolan was a Marvel Comic fan and interviewed Stan Lee for a London TV show in 1975. T.Rex's 1974 single 'Teenage Dream' includes the lyric '...Silver Surfer and the Ragged Kid, Are all sad and rusted boy, they don't have a gig...' There are a few photos dotted around the internet of Bolan holding or reading a Marvel comic.
I think that Silver Surfer was my favourite Marvel character.
The Fantastic Four was my first Marvel weekly comic after moving on from The Beano that I'd read for years. What worlds it opened up to me at 8-9 years of age, not too disimilar to what Richard D James did to me with SAW less than 10 years later.
The Fantastic Four was my first Marvel weekly comic after moving on from The Beano that I'd read for years. What worlds it opened up to me at 8-9 years of age, not too disimilar to what Richard D James did to me with SAW less than 10 years later.
Daredevil was my favourite but Silver Surfer was always cool. It seems entirely appropriate that Silver Surfer was created in the mid 60s.
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