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Silver Surfer Epic Collection
Silver Surfer Epic Collection, Vol. 9: Resurrection
To Infinity Crusade - and beyond! The Silver Surfer must help the Jack of Hearts, survive an encounter with Nebula and face the Kree double threat of Captain Atlas and Doctor Minerva! Meanwhile, it's a battle of Galactus' heralds as Morg and Terrax clash! They both want the same ax - but whose hands will it end up in? Plus, the Sentinel of the Spaceways joins Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch in Mephisto's clutches in a tale written and drawn by cosmic maestro Jim Starlin! But why is the Surfer joining the Secret Defenders alongside Doctor Strange, Thunderstrike and War Machine? And when the Goddess' Infinity Crusade divides the Marvel Universe, the Surfer must power up - with potentially explosive results! COLLECTING: VOL. 9: SILVER SURFER (1987) 76- 85, SILVER SURFER ANNUAL (1988) 6, SILVER SURFER/WARLOCK: RESURRECTION (1993) 1-4, SECRET DEFENDERS (1993) 9-10
456 pages, Paperback
First published September 9, 2020
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About the author
Ron Marz
1,643 books122 followersMarz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
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May 12, 2023
Man, I have been having a blast reading these old Silver Surfer comics. One, he’s been in my top five favorite characters and two, these books have been so good. Since Nebula has been broken out of prison on Titan by her right hand man, Geatar, and cured of her comatose state, she now looks like she does in the movies. Her first move is to break her crew out of prison. But little did she know, Surfer and Jack of Hearts was there. Nice battle ensues. Nebula does the unthinkable in order to escape again. Then a new threat arises, Tyrant, and we get the back story on him via new character Ganymede. Well he’s back and going around capturing powerful people to siphon their energy. A character is brought back to life and we get a very interesting meeting between this Tyrant and Galactus. Interesting stuff. I skipped the Surfer/Warlock mini series as I just read it 5 days ago in Infinity War Aftermath. The annual gives us Genis-Vell’s first appearance and we learn his true lineage. The the last 2 issues, Secret Defenders 9-10 shows Surfer enlist help from Doctor Strange to track down Nebula to capture her for good. Art wasn’t that good here but it was a good story. Great stuff all in all.
November 11, 2020
The collection is a pretty mixed bag, so I'll break down the things I liked and the things I didn't.
The good:
- the increased use of Cosmic characters from Marvel. We get the Heralds: Terrax, Morg, Firelord and Air-Walker. We get appearances from: Nebula; Jack of Hearts; Captain Atlas; Dr. Minerva; Gladiator; Beta Ray Bill; Ronan, and; the Infinity Watch. We get the introduction of new characters: Ganymede; Tyrant, and; Genis-Vell. This is a who's who of characters. This is what I want from my Surfer book, which was the defacto space book of the 90s
- Starlin's return to Surfer for the Silver Surfer/ Warlock: Resurrection mini-series. The book is a step up whenever he's writing.
The bad:
- Ron Lim's quality starts to drop before he leaves with #82. I'm guessing he got busy with Infinity Crusade but it hurts the book
- I felt the Infinity Gauntlet crossover issues hurt the momentum and ongoing storylines of the book and the Infinity Crusade ones here unfortunately also do the same. I haven't read Infinity Crusade, which doesn't help but there's a couple of inconsequential stories here from that crossover
- The Secret Defenders story doesn't make much sense. Surfer only calling in Thunderstrike and War Machine for help. And cos it's the 90s, we get great lines like "Hmm. This is starting to look like a job for... heavy artillery".
- I like how over-powered Tyrant was in order to bring together a who's who of Cosmic heroes but the villain is too vague in powers and ability. And his motivations are too stock standard also.
- Weird story telling choices. The Morg vs Terrax fight issue features silhouettes of Ganymede on each page just practicing her martial arts. It literally adds nothing to the story. Add to the fact the fight itself ends with a panel that takes a third of a page and solely consists of the sound effect "FOOOOM".
I wanted to like this more because it's not all bad but there's more of that than there is good. Ultimately where it should have been good early on were the Terrax vs Morg fight and the big beatdown with Tyrant but weak execution and Lim's rushed pencils mean that the only thing worth reading in here are those 4 Starlin issues.
The good:
- the increased use of Cosmic characters from Marvel. We get the Heralds: Terrax, Morg, Firelord and Air-Walker. We get appearances from: Nebula; Jack of Hearts; Captain Atlas; Dr. Minerva; Gladiator; Beta Ray Bill; Ronan, and; the Infinity Watch. We get the introduction of new characters: Ganymede; Tyrant, and; Genis-Vell. This is a who's who of characters. This is what I want from my Surfer book, which was the defacto space book of the 90s
- Starlin's return to Surfer for the Silver Surfer/ Warlock: Resurrection mini-series. The book is a step up whenever he's writing.
The bad:
- Ron Lim's quality starts to drop before he leaves with #82. I'm guessing he got busy with Infinity Crusade but it hurts the book
- I felt the Infinity Gauntlet crossover issues hurt the momentum and ongoing storylines of the book and the Infinity Crusade ones here unfortunately also do the same. I haven't read Infinity Crusade, which doesn't help but there's a couple of inconsequential stories here from that crossover
- The Secret Defenders story doesn't make much sense. Surfer only calling in Thunderstrike and War Machine for help. And cos it's the 90s, we get great lines like "Hmm. This is starting to look like a job for... heavy artillery".
- I like how over-powered Tyrant was in order to bring together a who's who of Cosmic heroes but the villain is too vague in powers and ability. And his motivations are too stock standard also.
- Weird story telling choices. The Morg vs Terrax fight issue features silhouettes of Ganymede on each page just practicing her martial arts. It literally adds nothing to the story. Add to the fact the fight itself ends with a panel that takes a third of a page and solely consists of the sound effect "FOOOOM".
I wanted to like this more because it's not all bad but there's more of that than there is good. Ultimately where it should have been good early on were the Terrax vs Morg fight and the big beatdown with Tyrant but weak execution and Lim's rushed pencils mean that the only thing worth reading in here are those 4 Starlin issues.
July 5, 2025
it was nice to finally read this material, as the second issue in here was the first comic I ever bought. with that said, I was largely disappointed in the book on the whole. not because it was bad, it just isn't that great either. I love the Ron Lim artwork on the main series, but this book is bogged down like crazy by crossovers and spinoff titles which I would usually enjoy, but none of them felt particularly standout or great. overall the book ends up being kind of mediocre on the whole, not bad but not good either and would likely be forgettable if not for the fact my first issue is in here
February 5, 2021
Fun stuff but the collection gets waylaid by Infinity Crusade crossover hijinks in the final issues and that drags things down a bit. The issues written and penciled by Jim Starlin are arguably the high point of the book.
November 2, 2022
Delightful 90’s cosmic classics from a bevy of talents.
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