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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published October 1987
Cover Price 0.75
Pages 36
Editing Michael Higgins

Cover Details

Characters Silver Surfer; Mantis; Collector; Runner; Gardener; Contemplator; Possessor; Grandmaster; Champion; Astronomer; Trader; Obliterator; Ego
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2007); in Silver Surfer (Play Press, 1989 series) #4

22 page Silver Surfer story "Mantis"

Characters FEATURE: Silver Surfer; GUEST: Mantis (Origin); VILLAINS: Supreme Intelligence; Skrulls; Kylor; Collector; Runner; Gardener; Contemplator; Possessor; Grandmaster; Champion; Astronomer (1st); Trader (1st); Obliterator (1st); Ego; CAMEO: Jemiah the Analyzer; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Captain America; Captain Marvel II; Thor; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Iron Man; Wonder Man; Hawkeye; Mockingbird; Tigra; Moon Knight; Vision; Scarlet Witch; Swordsman; Moondragon; Death
Synopsis Mantis introduces herself to the Surfer and tells him her origin; The Surfer and Mantis eavesdrop on a meeting of the Elders of the Universe where they hear of a plan to kill Galactus but are discovered and barely escape.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Colors Marshall Rogers
Letters John Workman
Reprinted in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2007); in Silver Surfer (Play Press, 1989 series) #4