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Fantastic Four #55
Issue(s): Fantastic Four #55
Cover Date: Oct 66
Title: "When strikes the Silver Surfer!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Jack Kirby - Penciler
Joe Sinnott - Inker
Review/plot:
Reed, Sue, and Ben return home from Wakanda and Ben calls Alicia but finds that she isn't at home. Already becoming jealous, he heads to her apartment.
Unfortunately the Silver Surfer is visiting her at her summer home...
....and by the time the Thing tracks her down there he's not listening to reason (i mean honestly, the Surfer walks around with no pants on; the world can see he's got nothing going on down there. Then again, no one knows what the Thing's got... Ok, getting too Mallrats, sorry), so he attacks.
The Surfer basically humors him (although he gets a little mad at one point) and after a protracted "fight" Reed and Sue show up and stop Ben from fighting any more.
Meanwhile Johnny and Wyatt arrive in the Himalayas in time to see a group of villagers fleeing from a monster. It turns out to be Lockjaw.
The Silver Surfer says he is in a world he never made. That's Howard the Duck's tagline. What does it mean?!?! I never made my world either.
The issue ends with the cutest picture of the Thing's head looking up as he wonders what will happen the next time the Surfer shows up.
Quality Rating: C+
Historical Significance Rating: 4 - Black Bolt's power revealed.
Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A
References: N/A
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: Marvel Triple Action #1
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Comments
That was an awesome fight.
Was newlywed Reed touching up his hair? In the first panel above he's missing his usual grey temples. I imagine this leading to a conversation with Sue: "No honey, I think the grey is sexy! Lay off the Clairol!"
I thought it was great to bring the Surfer back, give him a fight all to foreshadow Doom getting his powers.
Another entertaining Lee/Kirby story with some of Lee's trademark soap opera thrown in.
That first panel in fnord's write-up perfectly encapsulates the wonderful playfulness of the mid-1960s FF issues by Lee & Kirby...
Invisible Woman: Benjamin J. Grimm! You're just being obdurate!
The Thing: My religion's got nothing to do with it!
