Issue(s): Marvel Comics Presents #69 (Silver Surfer story only)
Cover Date: 1991
Title: "A howling in the void"
Credits:
Len Wein - Writer
Hugh Haynes - Penciler
Christopher Ivy - Inker
Kelly Corvese - Assistant Editor
Terry Kavanagh - Editor

Review/plot:
The Silver Surfer is flying through space when he hears a sound, and yes, he acknowledges that it shouldn't be possible for him to hear a sound in space. He investigates and finds a derelict spaceship.

He's attacked by the corpses of the ship's former passengers.

He fights off the horde of undead, and then learns that the ship itself is causing the wailing sound that attracted his attention. The ship is (somewhat) sentient, and it wants the Silver Surfer to ends its pain. The Surfer refuses to take a life, even for a mercy killing, but the ship is somehow able to use the Surfer's power for itself to end its life.

The ending is a cheat. Presenting the Silver Surfer with a dilemma and then solving it without his input makes the dilemma pointless, and it also makes the Surfer merely an observer in his own story. A set-up involving a derelict space ship is always potentially interesting, but it's downhill after that.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This is one of several stories that takes place during the final pages of Silver Surfer #60.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A