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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Silver Surfer #1 ( Facsimile) - Stan Lee and John Buscema

Ever since I picked up my first Silver Surfer comic (issue 12) as a 10 year old in 1970 I have been a massive fan of the broody Sentinel of the Spaceways. So you can imagine my excitment to find out that Marvel will be publishing facsimile editions of the first 7 issues of his original series by Stan Lee and John Buscema. Today (Wednesday) I picked up the first issue (originally published in 1968) and I have to say that I was surprised to find out that it was such a thick book of around 50 pages of silvery fun. Although I have read these Surfer tales in various UK reprints its good to see these stories in full colour and in their original format.
In addition to the main 38 page Silver Surfer tale is a very nice 13 page Gene Colan\Stan Lee Watcher story which I seem to recall reading in a Marvel UK weekly many years ago.

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  1. I ordered two copies of the first two facsimile issues, McS, and am just waiting for them to arrive, which should be pretty soon as I've been advised they're on their way. I don't really need them as I have all 18 of the original issues, as well as the Masterworks and Omnibus printings, but there's just something about these facsimiles that's really appealing. The reason Marvel are doing the first 7 is because those were the 'thick' issues, #8 being the first regular sized mag of the rest of the run, but it would be nice if the remaining issues were also 'facsimilised'. (Made up that word myself.) A few years ago, they released a facsimile of #14, SS meets Spidey.

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Silver Surfer #1 ( Facsimile) - Stan Lee and John Buscema

Ever since I picked up my first Silver Surfer comic (issue 12) as a 10 year old in 1970 I have been a massive fan of the broody Sentinel ...