Death of the Silver Surfer

The cosmos delivers its final verdict on one of Marvel's greatest heroes.

The Silver Surfer is dead. Long live the Silver Surfer. Introducing an all-new hero to take up the mantle.

The Silver Surfer returns to defend a war-ravaged Earth — but Norrin Radd has a galaxy-sized target on his back. A new enemy will stop at nothing to steal away everything the Surfer is or ever will be. A single human life may be all that decides the Surfer’s salvation…or damnation. Hated and feared by the very people his heart longs to aid, he must duel an array of rivals hellbent on his utter annihilation! If the Surfer falls, who then wields the awesome Power Cosmic? And what of the Surfer’s old master, Galactus, Devourer of Worlds?!  Plus, with the death of the Silver Surfer, will there be a new wielder of the power cosmic to take his place?

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Film director and screenwriter Greg Pak’s first feature, the sci-fi anthology Robot Stories, won 35 awards; he broke into the comics industry when his agent sent Marvel the screenplay. After writing a Warlock reboot, Pak made a splash with the X-Men: Phoenix — Endsong limited series and a lengthy run on Incredible Hulk, highlighted by the “Planet Hulk” storyline and the World War Hulk crossover. In addition to the acclaimed Magneto: Testament and Red Skull: Incarnate limited series, a War Machine revival and the retitled Incredible Hulks, Pak has written Dynamite’s Battlestar Galactica and contributed to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. His efforts with co-writer Fred Van Lente include Incredible Hercules, Herc, Heroic Age: Prince of Power, an Alpha Flight relaunch and the Chaos War crossover. Pak introduced Amadeus Cho as a new Green Goliath in The Totally Awesome Hulk and delivered mutant mayhem in Weapon X.

Sumit Kumar has contributed to Marvel stories in Web of Spider-Verse: New Blood and Spider-Man: Black Suit, White and Blood and will be working on his first full length Marvel limited series The Death of the Silver Surfer.