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Silver Surfer (1987) #34-38

The Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos

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The quest that led to INFINITY GAUNTLET begins here! Back from the dead, Thanos is after the power to bring the rest of the universe with him on a return trip! Can the Silver Surfer, Drax the Destroyer and others stop the cosmic iconoclast before he uses reality as a token of his affection for Death? Special guest-appearance by the Impossible Man! Collects SILVER SURFER #34-38, and the Thanos short from MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1992 (cover dated 1993).

127 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1990

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Jim Starlin

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James P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.

In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).

When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (

In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.

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November 13, 2017
El tomo está protagonizado casi exclusivamente por Silver Surfer. Un inicio correcto para la saga, creando expectativa.
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October 28, 2022
Prime samples of Starlin's classic era. Lim's art also is supurb.
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5,084 reviews172 followers
November 12, 2015
Ya sea paseando con el mortal Thanos, viendo tele con el destructivo Drax, abrazándose con un íguoc para pasarle anticuerpos o en un combate mortal en un planeta volátil (de nuevo contra Thanos), las aventuras de Estelita Plateada que se narran en este tomo me parecieron muy entretenidas y, pese al poco fanatismo que le tengo al estilo de Ron Lim, hasta visualmente bonitas.
Si no se cruza ningún meteorito en el camino: Thanos Quest, ahí voy.
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