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Underneath it all
Asgard (hovering outside Broxton, Oklahoma) has fallen (in Siege #3) and Young Avengers Hulkling and Wiccan are flying over the ruins. As Wiccan travels via magic force-bubble he tells his winged boyfriend why he originally called himself the Asgardian and dressed more like Thor (YAv#1-5). He's always been a Norse mythology geek.Their teammate Speed zooms up and says he's been looking for the others. Stature and Vision are OK but he can't find Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and Patriot. Then he rushes off to help as many survivors as he can. We see that Kate and Eli Bradley are trapped in a pocket under the rubble of Asgard.Billy Kaplan and Teddy Altman continue flying above the ruined city looking for survivors but finding only the dead. Wiccan can't understand why Asgard had to get destroyed. Hulkling blames the whole hero community for not stopping Norman Osborn much earlier. Meanwhile Tommy Shepherd is pushing himself to the limit to speed-carry survivors out of the city. And Kate is spurring Eli on to use his super-soldier serum strength to push the trapping rubble out of the way to give them an exit. But Patriot is worried that he'll bring the whole thing down on them. Kate says it'll fall and kill them eventually anyway, so they may as well *try* to escape.Billy and Teddy hear a noise and see Wrecker and 2 of his Wrecking Crew fighting the 3rd, Thunderball. TBall thinks they shouldn't desecrate Asgard, but the others just want to loot the ruins for whatever they can find. So Eliot Franklin gets beaten up and the other 3 have they're own way. Hulkling thinks they should leave them to it and go looking for injured Asgardians to help, but Wiccan uses his magic to encase them in rocks. However the villains easily break free.Speed is frantically digging into debris hoping to find his missing comrades, or just anyone. But down below somewhere Kate has hatched a plan which Eli vetoes as too dangerous - she wants to blast their way free with explosive arrows. Kate asks why Eli is suddenly averse to taking risks. He answers by kissing her. (They once went on a date which didn't go well. But here Eli is indicating he doesn't want to risk *her* life.) He is saved from too much embarrassment by a shift in the rubble over them opening up a wide crack. Hawkeye tells Patriot to hold it open while she wriggles into it.Up above Hulkling fights Bulldozer and Piledriver while Wiccan tackles the boss man, Wrecker. Billy asks him why he's pillaging the place he got his powers from (accidentally from the Norn Queen in Thor #148, and the Wrecking Crew got *their* powers from him) - has he no respect? Dirk Garthwaite basically answers no. As the other 2 pummel Hulkling, Wiccan unleashes lightning bolts which fry all 3 villains.Exhausted Speed meets Ronin (Clint Barton, the original Hawkeye) who bucks him up by telling him he's doing everything anyone could ask of him. Elsewhere Hulkling and Wiccan embrace, and Billy tells Teddy how his father used to read him Norse myths when he was little (until 1 day in a fit of pique he told his dad he hated the stories).Down below Kate plants some explosive arrowheads deep in the crevice, and says she can feel a draft of air. Then she backs out. She tells Eli to keep holding the crack open until she fires another arrow in to detonate the explosives, and let go straight away so the closing gap will protect them from the blast.Up above Billy and Teddy hear an explosion, and then see a whirlpool of dust and small rocks funnelling down a hole. And then Patriot's shield breaks through to the surface, followed by him and Hawkeye. The pair say they're alright (but exchange glances). Teddy tells them he's seen Vision and Cassie Lang fighting beside Captain America. And Tommy runs up to join them, glad to see everyone OK.Speed then speeds off to do more rescuing. Hulkling and Wiccan fly after him, bantering about Billy's Norse nerdity - and his awesome thunderbolts. Kate tells Eli it was a hell of a kiss, before they too rejoin the fray.


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I am the Lady Sif
The Lady Sif, living the life of a regular human in Broxton, Oklahoma, is taking a bath when she hears a stealthy noise from the next room. Fearing another attack by Loki, who had previously imprisoned her mind and possessed her body, she creeps to the door, flings it open—and terrifies her landlady. Later at the bar, while she is putting the beat-down on a dude who tried to pick her up, Beta Ray Bill enters, calling on Thor to come to his aid. Sif is introduced to Bill’s girlfriend Ti Asha Ra, and the alien hero outlines the problem: his sentient ship Skuttlebutt has been infected by bio-mechanical virus and the ship was able to jettison its two passengers for their safety and now the ship won’t let them back in, so Bill needs Thor. Sif volunteers in his place….
Sif enters Skuttlebutt (by ripping through a door) and faces the aliens whose only goal is to assimilate all life in the universe. Sif then fights her way through various opponents and faces the final one. It infects her with a barrage of spores which cause the lady warrior to be overwhelmed by doubts and fears. Picturing the enemy as Loki she is able to rally and kill him then slice into the growths that occupy Skuttlebutt’s insides….
Sif awakens in the sick bay, with a concerned Beta Ray Bill and Ti Asha Ra by her side. She wishes them well and departs with pride in a job well done….


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My Dinner with Doom?
Doctor Doom and his new ally Kang the Conqueror head into space to track down the new energy source Doom has detected, unaware that the Magus’ deadly doppelganger is ready to step into Doom’s place. Shortly thereafter, Silver Sable arrives for her annual dinner engagement with Doom; the doppelganger seizes the opportunity to play up his arrogance and sadism, abusing Sable in hopes of provoking a war between Latveria and her Symkaria. Realizing this Doom is an impostor, Sable escapes from the guards and battles the castle’s security forces, making her way to the communications room where she hopes to find some answers. Meanwhile, back in Symkaria, the Wild Pack has been following the televised reports of the disaster at the Four Freedoms Plaza and, unable to contact Silver Sable, decides to mount a rescue mission to Latveria. While the team is preparing for their expedition, Sandman is overpowered and replaced by his own doppelganger. Back at Doom’s castle, the Doom doppelganger finds Sable, disguised as a Doombot, in the palace communications room.


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Vipers in Our Midst!
Silver Sable and her Wild Pack have
been hired by a mystery client to capture the terrorist Viper for
him. The problem is, there are many impostors out there to confuse
the issue, the villainess' Pit-Vipers. The story starts with Silver
and half of the Wild Pack in Rome battling one Viper who turns out to
be a fake, and the other half of the team fighting another false
Viper in Kentucky. News of this comes to Captain America at Avengers
HQ and he realizes that something very bad is likely behind this and
races to get to Viper first....
Meanwhile, the real Viper is working on
a project to blind television viewers across the world through a
secret broadcast station....
Elsewhere, Silver is abandoned by her
lover, Jacques, who has a secret mission of his own....
Else-elsewhere, Baron Strucker vows
revenge against Silver Sable for his defeat in issue #12, as well as
her teammate Crippler....
Later, Crippler is undercover as a
mobster in the Bronx to investigate another Viper sighting. This time
Captain America bursts in and Cap and Crippler battle over who gets
to capture this fake Viper. Cap wins and escorts his prisoner
out...where she is gunned down by a sniper. Cap and Cripp take on the
real Viper's goons and then Silver Sable and her Wild Pack arrive on
the scene for a full-scale melee. Silver nabs Viper and Cap reveals
who Silver's mystery client is—the Red Skull....
Continued in CAPTAIN AMERICA #419
2. “Chapter Five: Romantic Delusions”
Writer: Gregory Wright. Pencils: Nelson
Ortega. Inks: Mickey Ritter. Colors: Joe Rosas
Synopsis: Silver Sable recalls her
growing attraction to the mercenary Basil, called the Foreigner; this
relationship leads to marriage and their becoming allies in their
missions. Eventually, Basil's secretive nature comes between them,
and they split up. Later, Silver is hired as a bodyguard for US
President Jimmy Carter and she prevents an assassination attempt. She
heads out in search of the shooter and we learn that he is Basil in
disguise....


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Inquisition
This issue opens with a page which has nothing to do with the body of the story. The lizard-alien called Reptyl is floating in space (left for dead in Fantastic Four Annual #24) when a cocoon forms around him.Now we pick up the story from within Infinity Gauntlet #4. Earth's heroes attacked Thanos in the throne/palace in space he built for his love Death. Thanos has killed them all except Captain America. As per Adam Warlock's plan Silver Surfer zoomed in to take the Infinity Gauntlet off the villain but failed.Now as Surfer flies away bemoaning the fact that he's doomed the universe to the fate he imagined in the last 2 issues, Thanos fires up the Infinity Gems and blasts him in the back. At 1st Norrin Radd thinks the blast had no effect, but then reality warps around him.  Then everything goes black ...... and when he returns to 'normal' he finds himself without his surfboard standing on a fragment of white surface floating in space with enormous black doors in front of him. The doors tell him to stop dawdling and come in. Inside there's a large black and white room (with archways leading to other rooms - there's obviously a TARDIS-effect here). The single occupant welcomes him through the Doors Of Perception to the Hall Of Absolutes, and introduces himself as Virtual Reality (although he has many other names too and suggests Surfer has heard of him by another 1).SS says that Thanos has obviously sent him here to get him out of the way, so he must get back to save the universe from him. VR says it doesn't matter how he got here, but now he's here he must see things through to the end. And he leads him down a corridor which he says will show him the truths of his life.The 1st scene which confronts our hero is of his young self discovering his mother dead from suicide in the bath. Distraught Surfer asks why he is being shown this and VR replies that these are the things that most prominent in Norrin's memory. The next scene has young Norrin being introduced to equally-young Shalla Bal. It is apparently a Zenn-Lavian custom to help assuage grief. But Norrin rejects her (which makes Shalla cry). Later he and Shalla have obviously developed a relationship, but he turns down chances to be with her in favour of his scientific research. She is 1 of the few who comforts him when his father too commits suicide. But then he leaves her behind on Zenn-La when Galactus makes him his herald as Silver Surfer.Surfer finds excuses for all of this. And obviously when he fed inhabited worlds to Galactus that was because Big G had tampered with his mind (as he and we learned in #48). Next he sees the Defenders. He could have stayed with them and done much good, but as usual he left them. As he also left other loves Mantis and Nova (Frankie Raye). The final scene is his defeat by Thanos and/or the statue version from #50.VR says this is the end of the show, and leaves him in darkness.But we get 1 last page which shows Reptyl bursting from his cocoon in a much more fearsome form.


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The hero in absence
This issue begins by reminding us of some past relevant events. At the end of #50 Silver Surfer crashed through the roof window of Dr Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. (In last issue which starred Galactus and Nova (Frankie Raye), SS only featured in a lengthy flashback to many weeks previously.) In Infinity Gauntlet #1 Stephen Strange found him and the exhausted Norrin Radd managed to warn him of the threat of Thanos. Later in IG#1 we were on Titan with Drax The Destroyer, Eros and Firelord when Mentor (father of Eros and Thanos) vanished. The super-computer ISAAC informed them that half the population of the universe was gone, and Thanos was to blame. (We know that it was to please Death and win her favour - it didn't work.) In IG#2 Eros disappeared too (we know that he was separately taken by his brother for personal attention).Now Drax and Firelord are left to sort things out, and neither of them know how to use the computer system. And simple-minded Drax wants Pyreus Kril to bring his friends back, assuming that the recent arrival of Firelord was the cause of the disappearances. On the way to find help they meet a young boy named Tycho whose parents vanished. He leads them to ISAAC's central control room but doesn't know the entry code, so Drax breaks the door down.Inside they find it empty but among the display screens 1 of them is showing a video-only recording of a recent event on the the Moon which shows Silver Surfer fighting and destroying Thanos. (From #50 but we know it was only Thanos' reanimated old body which was turned to stone back in Marvel Two-In_One Annual #2.) Firelord assumes that the Thanos-crisis is over and learns from the computer that SS is now somewhere in New York. But Drax's damaged brain has at last remembered what Surfer sent him to Titan to tell them. Thanos can't be dead because the Infinity Gauntlet has made him a god.Unfortunately Firelord thinks dumb Drax doesn't know what he's talking about. Drax thinks Kril is making fun of him and he gets very angry and starts a fight. The ex-Herald Of Galactus fights back as little as possible while trying to talk Drax down. But eventually he too loses his temper and manifests/summons his Cosmic Fire Staff to blast his opponent with. Tycho calls for them to stop but Drax picks up a large statue of Mentor which the boy is standing on and prepares to swat Firelord with it. Pyreus calls out a warning and Drax gently lowers the statue to the ground, racked with remorse.The Destroyer remembers that he used to be reasonably smart in a previous life. But then his daughter killed him with a mental blast. Lately he was recreated when his sworn foe Thanos came back to life (but he's brain damaged). Now he accepts Firelord's help, and they agree to go to Earth to find the Surfer to learn what's going on. But 1st they hand Tycho into the temporary care of a Titanian couple who've lost their son in the great vanishing.The duo fly out of the underground city into space. As they travel along Pyreus Kril wonders what he's getting into. Then a portal opens up in front of them and delivers them to Avengers HQ to be greeted by Dr Strange and Surfer alongside Captain America, Cloak, Iron Man, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor (Eric Masterson) and Wolverine with Adam Warlock and Pip The Troll. Then Strange brings Nova (Richard Rider) and Sub-Mariner through 2 more portals.


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The universe according to Thanos part 1: Genesis
Thanos has wiped out half the population of the universe (amongst other stuff). Adam Warlock has sent the heroes of Earth to beard him in his den (the space palace/throne he created for his love Death). Now Warlock and Silver Surfer watch the battle (in Infinity Gauntlet #4) from afar.Surfer is eager to join the fray before Thanos kills them all but Adam says they must wait for the right moment. He tells Norrin Radd to rest for a while and meditate on what he must do so that he makes no mistake (and possibly actually puts him to sleep).After a few panels Warlock wakes him because it's time. They both streak towards the battle site only to find the heroes all dead, which Adam says shouldn't have happened. Surfer was supposed to grab the Infinity Gauntlet off Thanos in the middle of the battle and then the de-powered Mad Titan would succumb to the overwhelming forces. But it's all gone wrong.Thanos tosses Hulk aside and then turns to our duo. Warlock attacks him but the boasting self-proclaimed god grows to giant-size and grips Adam in 1 fist. Then he gets appropriate revenge for his previous fate at Warlock's hands (Marvel 2-In-1 Annual #2) by turning the hero to stone, and then he crumbles him to dust.Now he shrinks down to normal to face Silver Surfer, whose attack he frustrates by turning his surfboard to manacles. He tells Norrin Radd he has a job for him. Thanos boasts that he is now master of all. He used to worship Death but now, as we see, she fawns at his feet. As the universe's new god he wants Norrin to record his deeds and words in his holy book. Mephisto interrupts, advising his master that letting the Surfer live might be a mistake. And he personally would like to see *his* most hated foe dead. But Thanos turns on him and kills *him*.Then he admits there was *some* merit in Mephisto's words, and for safety's sake he removes SS's cosmic power, and then his shackles. Norrin is still in Silver Surfer form and tries to blast the Titan, but nothing happens.Next Thanos creates a planet for the throne-palace to stand on. He calls it Necronos and from here he will rule the universe. And another snap of his fingers gives it a population of 1 billion. Surfer doesn't understand why this death-lover would do that. But Thanos explains. He once (Avengers Annual #7) tried to snuff out all the stars for Death, thus dooming all life. But now he realises that she wants *continual* deaths, so lives are necessary for her to be continually satisfied.Now he takes Surfer to show him another building on Necropolis (but in the same style as the palace). They see lines of people being marched into the entranceways to their deaths. It is a conveyor belt of death for Death. And he tells Norrin that there are thousands of places like this on Necronos. And on all other worlds.


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Lost
A mysterious energy from another dimension has left Eternity comatose as his large humanoid avatar floating in the Dimension Of Manifestations. The same energy has also appeared on planets all over the Galaxy, including Monster Island on Earth. Dr Strange is using the Eye Of Agamotto to help Galactus in his spherical spaceship to track the energy across dimensions. With them are Big G's current and ex-Heralds Nova (Frankie Raye) and Silver Surfer.They are presently in a turbulent passageway between dimensions and Galactus won't hear any excuse from Strange about the difficulties of tracking in these conditions. He also brusquely dismisses Nova's asking if there's anything she can do to help. She flies crying to her quarters and Surfer, knowing that he would be equally useless in this situation, follows to comfort her despite the fact that their previous romantic relationship (#9-21) didn't end well.Frankie pours out her heart to him (and her comics history to us). Her father ran away soon after her birth and her mother died when she was too young to remember leaving her to be brought up by her inventor stepfather (secretly Phineas T Horton, creator of the WWII Human Torch). She grew up wanting to be famous and seemed to get her dream when an accident in her stepfather's lab gave *her* flame powers, but he made her hide them. Then she became Johnny Storm's girlfriend, her powers were revealed and she joined the Fantastic Four (FF#238) - and fame was hers.But soon in FF#244 she took a step further and became the new Herald Of Galactus, finding worlds for him to eat. And sometimes those worlds were inhabited by civilisations, so she has been an accomplice to genocide. And she doesn't have Norrin Radd's excuse that G had tampered with his mind to suppress his guilt (see #48).Their conversation is interrupted when the ship is attacked by mechanical 'wolves' seemingly built from scrap. All the ship's power is being used by the navigation system in this crazy place so the defences are offline. Galactus sends his Heralds out to fight them off.Apparently Surfer's Board and Nova's flight wouldn't be reliable out there so they have harnesses tethering them to the ship. A wolf immediately attacks Nova until Surfer blasts it to bits. But then a large pack descends on them. The pair fight back-to-back blasting away at the seemingly never-ending horde. And they know that even more of the wolves are still eating into the ship. So SS risks a cosmic blast that might damage the ship, but at least deals with all the wolves around them.Before they can find more or where they're coming from they see wolves lining up in an honour guard. An armoured humanoid being approaches between the ranks and announces that he intends to take over their ship.


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Sins of the fathers
Silver Surfer has come to Titan where he meets Firelord and Eros and they show him Nebula in a catatonic state. Eros tells him that they brought Nebula to Titan (after the Infinity Gauntlet event) and put her on trial and imprisoned her, but then she had a psychotic episode and she's been like this ever since (see a backup tale in SS Annual #5). Eros reminds us that she claims to be Thanos' granddaughter but the Titanians can find no genetic evidence of this.A thickset figure approaches and we are supposed to think it's Thanos. But it's really Nebula's 2nd-in-command Geatar who was altered by Thanos to resemble him and his remains left in #44 to make Surfer think the Titan was dead. Now it appears that Mentor (father of Eros and Thanos) has reconstructed him and he is now her simple-minded servant. They leave him to try and feed her.Norrin Radd wants to see Mentor so Eros sends him down to the catacombs where his father is holding a vigil at his wife's tomb on the anniversary of her death. Mentor reveals that Thanos was more directly involved in Sui-San's death than he has allowed Eros and others to believe. The accepted story is that she died in a nuclear 'accident' caused by their son which killed many others too. But actually young Thanos set off the 'accident' as a diversion while he killed his mother personally. He wanted to know why he had been born different to other Titanians, and cut her open to try to discover the reason.Then a messenger rushes in to tell Mentor that Galactus is once more on Earth, in Greenwich Village in New York. SS zooms off on his cosmic surfboard to confront his ex-master ...... and then we see him facing Big G and an unconscious Dr Strange telling him to release the Sorcerer Supreme, which is where we left them all at the end of DrS, Sorcerer Supreme #42. Galactus just tells him to mind his own business and takes the Doctor into his spherical spaceship. Surfer follows and catches up with them and G's current Herald Nova (Frankie Raye) inside. The boss orders her to 'dispatch' SS, and she reluctantly obeys. 1st she tries asking him to leave nicely. Neither want to fight but they do. But while duelling Frankie tells Norrin what's going on, as far as she understands it.In Infinity War #1 they found Eternity comatose. Galactus tried to trace who did it but was stopped by a mystical barrier. In DrSSS#42 they came to recruit Strange's help. Stephen Strange didn't like Big G's peremptory tone and said he'd investigate on his own. Galactus 'persuaded' him to come along but on the way to the ship he mentally showed DrS the state of Eternity, and the powerful contact was too much for the Earthman's brain.Luckily Stephen wakes up now and magically separates the combatants. He asks Galactus why *he* didn't stop the fight, but the cosmic being just shrugs the question off. So now they *all* agree to team up against the big bad unknown menace.And that menace Magus is watching it all.This story continues in DrSSS#43 before Infinity War #2 (which will include our #68-69 and DrSSS#44).


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Epiphany
For the past few issues Silver Surfer has been trapped in Dynamo City. Meanwhile Drax The Destroyer has gone to Titan to view the corpse of his fated foe Thanos, who SS supposedly killed in #38. And he has declared it a fake.Now free from the City, Norrin Radd has joined Drax with Thanos' father Mentor and brother Eros to examine the skeleton in detail. And they have discovered it has cybernetic enhancements which the Mad Titan would never have needed. Surfer remembers Thanos was defeated too easily, and he should have known it was a trick to lull him into a false sense of security. Drax gets angry and demands they join him in hunting his enemy down. But Surfer points out they don't know where he is, and Drax's new incarnation (reborn in #35) can no longer automatically sense where his foe is. So they'll have to wait for him to make a move.On the other side of the Galaxy Thanos contemplates a red giant star. Using the power of the 6 Infinity Gems (which he gained in the Thanos Quest mini-series while SS was otherwise engaged) he breaks the sun into pieces and then reassembles it. We see that he has affixed the Gems to a gauntlet (which will become known as the Infinity Gauntlet). He repeats what he discovered (in Thanos Quest) that there was once a being who was the whole of his universe. In his loneliness he committed suicide, but from that death sprang the (Marvel) universe and everything within it. But his heart and soul was recreated as the 6 Gems which Thanos now possesses.Channelling his inner Spider-Man he realises that with great power comes great responsibility. However he comes to a very different conclusion - his 1st responsibility is to make sure no-one can take the power away from him. His cosmic senses had warned him that Silver Surfer was the greatest threat so he creates a viewing portal and sees the gathering around his 'corpse' (which he and we know is that of a being named Geatar). He of course recognises them all, including Drax who he remembers was created by the ascended spirit of his grandfather Kronos to be his nemesis. But he also senses that this resurrected Drax is diminished. The Titan could erase them all with a thought. But as the universe's now-supreme being he can afford to take his time. He decides to deal with the Surfer and Destroyer now and save his family for later.Drax senses something Thanosy as a trans-dimensional conduit appears and sucks 2 of the 4 into it. Eros and Mentor save themselves but then realise they survive really because the vortex didn't want them.Norrin and Drax find themselves on a dead world in the ruins of a civilisation and faced with Thanos. The Destroyer immediately leaps to the attack but the Mad God freezes him in time. Thanos then transports the 3 of them back to the planet's prehistoric past (complete with dinosaur analogues), and then to it's future as it's about to be consumed by its sun, now a red giant. He shows Surfer the Infinity Gems in the Gauntlet and says 1 of them has given him mastery of time.He then takes them to modern-day New York, and then back to the dead planet where he frees Drax from his stasis. He also demonstrates that he can be in multiple places at once by forming a circle around the 2 heroes. This is because 1 of the Gems has made him master of space.Drax now attacks Surfer, and Thanos explains that his control of souls has allowed him to redirect the Destroyer's obsession.As Drax chokes the life out of him Norrin Radd's life flashes before his eyes (with lots of cameos by Marvel chars). But Thanos says he's controlling the display via his mastery of minds.Then Drax's grip on Surfer is broken as the duo find their reality warped - the effect of another Infinity Gem.Finally an enormous Thanos holds each of them in the grip of a fist, demonstrating the effect of the Power Gem.Surfer at last recognises the Infinity Gems as the Soul Gems and leaps to try and wrest the Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. But the Mad Titan easily bats him away and says he wanted Surfer to realise who now controls the universe before he kills him. Surfer and Drax attack as 1 but Thanos exerts the power of the Gems and the pair fall lifeless at his feet. The Mad God claims to have stolen their souls and now none dare challenge him.But we see Mephisto scheming to acquire the Infinity Gems for himself.


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Field of honour
In Infinity Gauntlet #5 Nebula took the Gauntlet and its 6 Infinity Gems away from Thanos. Adam Warlock and Silver Surfer retreated to Dr Strange's Greenwich Village house. Thanos survived and Strange portalled him from space to the Sanctum Sanctorum as an ally against the new common enemy. But Surfer wasn't happy to ally with the villain.This issue is a very much expanded version of part of the succeeding 2 pages of IG#5.As SS and Thanos trade blows DrS summons 5 heroes (mostly) he'd rescued in his #34-35 and stashed away for later use. They are Dr Doom, Drax The Destroyer, Firelord, Hulk and Thor (Eric Masterson) and they drag the 2 combatants apart. But they continue to taunt each other and both break free. So Strange has to force them apart with magic.He tries to persuade them to put aside their differences for the sake of the universe. But Norrin Radd protests that they can't trust the Titan, and Thanos is (or pretends to be) offended. Victor von Doom suggests a duel to settle the matter. Surely the Sorcerer Supreme can devise 1 that won't allow them to kill each other. Stephen Strange's eyes fall upon his array of Arthurian texts which give him an idea.He proposes to send them to a realm where their powers will be different. They will fight until 1 is incapacitated or surrenders. Their bodies will remain here in mystic shackles. Strangely even Thanos agrees to this. Their spirits leave this plane ....... and find themselves dressed in knightly armour with horses for them to ride. Surfer discovers that his Power Cosmic blasts don't work, and Thanos is similarly limited. Norrin in white armour (and a white horse) draws a glowing sword. Black-armoured Thanos bestrides his black charger and attacks with an equally-glowing lance. Surfer dodges and leaps on *his* horse (and now he too has a lance). They charge towards each other and SS is unhorsed.The Mad Titan threatens him with his lance but Surfer uses it to pull the villain from *his* horse. Now they continue the battle on foot, Surfer's sword now vs a glowing axe. SS again comes off worst. (Dr Strange is monitoring the situation but tells Thor that he needs the outcome to be more decisive if the squabbling is to end.)Norrin has a 2nd wind and his sword cleaves Thanos' shield. He says the villain will soon regret he was ever born. But the Titan says he always *does* regret it. Surfer swears revenge for the mental and physical tortures Thanos has put him through (in so many of the recent Silver Surfer issues) and hacks at his foe. (Now DrS is worried for Thanos' safety and and tries to bring the pair back, but Surfer resists.)SS is poised for a killing blow and Thanos pleads for death to release him from the pains of existence and send him back into the arms of his love Death. (Stephen Strange senses Norrin Radd hesitating.) But then Thanos (cunningly?) overplays his hand and says that with him gone Nebula will be unstoppable and she will surely feed many souls to Death. So of course Surfer won't allow that to happen and backs down.But he now foolishly expects Thanos to admit defeat and surrender. That of course is not in the Titan's nature, so he makes a sneak attack with a (glowing) dagger and pins the hero down. He offers Surfer the choice of death or surrender. And Norrin yields.Strange brings them back to their bodies and they both confirm that Thanos was the victor. Drax and Firelord don't understand how he lost. Surfer says he came to his senses and delayed his retribution against the villain until after Nebula is defeated.As usual lately the issue concludes with an unconnected last page. The being who crashlanded in the Blue Area Of The Moon in last issue's last page is surveying images of diverse alien beings and saying that they are (or someone else is) still missing and still deadly.


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Even demigods must dream
Silver Surfer flies to a desolate lifeless planet and has his 1st sleep in years.Then he sees a huge skull and walks in through the gaping jaws. Inside is a room with murals of agonised faces and a tower of normal-sized skulls in the middle of the floor. 2 beings walk past carrying a chest, and don't seem to notice him. The mouldy-corpse 1 tells the rat-faced 1 that their mistress has been in a foul mood since her encounter with the In-Betweener (which an editorial comment says was in #17). Surfer looks back out of the door and sees himself still lying beside his board, and realises he is in a dream.Norrin Radd follows the pair to an audience with their mistress Death sitting on a throne inside a large fanged jaw atop another pile of skulls. The corpse interprets her wishes and tells Ratter to open the box, releasing a spirit the identity of whose vague face is obvious to anyone who's seen the cover of this issue, ie Thanos. But the Surfer has never met the guy so all he can do is sense great evil.The spokes-corpse explains that Mistress Death has detected an imbalance in the Universe which threatens all, and she wants the spirit to return to life and resolve the problem. The spirit brags about how far he'll go to serve her, but Ratter points out that he's made such promises before and failed. And most of those who opposed him previously are still out there. (Since we know it's Thanos we know he has some deceased opposition in Captain Marvel and Warlock, with a side order of Gamora and Pip The Troll.) But the corpse says Death has seen the future and the only credible opposition is ...... (ta-da!) Silver Surfer. And suddenly everyone can see him and they're all pointing at him (yeah, had dreams like that, and Surfer is of course basically naked). And the Thanos-spirit blasts him out of the building.Outside Norrin sees the desert is now covered to the horizon with close-packed aliens, all looking towards a distant smoking steep volcano. He summons his board and flies there. At the lip of the volcano he sees a female throwing baby in. He swoops down and saves the child from the flames. But as he takes it away it turns into a tentacled demon that attacks him and finally smothers him completely in a cancerous mass. Until he blasts his way out. And then he and his board fall to the ground ...... and he awakes from the dream with his board on an empty planet with no skull-house and no volcano. As he tries to figure out what the dream meant he's confronted by the real Thanos on a hoverchair/throne who introduces himself.


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The answer
Nebula and her space pirates are aboard Thanos' old flagship Sanctuary when Thanos himself pops in and announces that he's come to claim his ship back. Nebula scoffs that her grandfather is dead but most of the crew used to serve him and believe in a prophecy that he would return from the dead. The Captain orders her lover Geatar to kill the imposter but it is Geatar who appears to die. Then Thanos denies any relationship with Nebula because he has no children, never mind a grandkid, and he sets her on fire with an eye-beam and she runs away screaming. The Titan sends a crewman named Mantrax to make sure she dies, but when he finds her he puts the flames out and takes her somewhere to hide and recuperate.Thanos promotes 1st Officer Stxy to Captain and gives him some orders. But then his mistress Death summons him to her realm, where her servant Ratter speaks for her as usual. In #34-35 she sent him back to the living to cull half the population of the Universe, which was becoming dangerously overcrowded, and she wants to know why he hasn't done it. Thanos reminds her that she warned him that Silver Surfer might stop him. The Surfer "holds a special position within the celestial balance" (I don't know why) so they can't just kill him. He says he has devised a plan to neutralise the problem, which came to him while staring into Death's Infinity Well.Meanwhile Surfer is scouring the Cosmos for Thanos. We see him questioning a group of humanoids on an unnamed planet who thought the Mad Titan was dead, and aren't happy to hear otherwise. They promise to contact Norrin Radd via Mentor of Titan if they hear anything. But as he leaves the planet a giant hologram of his foe's head who tells him he's on the planet Pyraxlon and awaits Surfer there for a reckoning. But he'd better hurry if he wants to save the planet.SS suspects a trap but zooms off to the scientifically advanced world, which seems to be covered in a city powered by geothermal energy. He suspects Thanos intends to cause a thermal overload to wipe out half the planet's population. (As he did in #36 when he tricked Norrin into infecting another planet with Earth germs.) Now his musing lets us know that in that issue he memorised the energy signature of the villain's teleporting 'throne', and now he detects it. He zooms down to face his enemy but Thanos gloats that he *expected* SS to track him by this method.Surfer attacks with blasts of the Power Cosmic but Thanos' shields easily dispel them. Then his chair 'ports to behind the hero and Thanos blasts *him*, to more effect. And then is gone again before Norrin can strike back. SS tracks the chair again and this time intends to disable it to prevent further escapes or sneak attacks. But when he reaches him we see the Titan uncharacteristically confused, pleading and weeping. But Surfer strikes and the throne explodes, with a greater force than he expected. When Radd power-shrugs free of the rubble he finds Thanos reduced to a skeleton. Surfer creates a box to enclose the remains and take them back to Thanos' father Mentor.However when he's gone the real Thanos and throne reveal themselves. The Titan breaks the 4th wall to ask the reader not to tell Norrin he's alive. The 'Thanos' who died was actually Geatar (who Thanos presumably didn't completely kill earlier), and Styx had followed orders to surgically alter him to be Thanos' duplicate. Surfer should be fooled long enough for Thanos to gain the power he needs to become unstoppable. (Which we will experience in the 2-part Thanos Quest.)


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Thanos vs Mephisto
Thanos has the 6 Infinity Gems (Thanos Quest mini-series) which make him the most powerful being in the universe. Last issue he seemingly killed Silver Surfer and Drax The Destroyer. But Mephisto has been watching from Hell and schemes to get the Gems for himself.Now as he stands over the 2 lifeless bodies Thanos lets us know he's actually captured their souls in Adam Warlock's Soul Gem. Then he teleports away (and that's all we'll see of the duo this issue).The villain rematerialises inside his flagship Sanctuary III where he asks Captain Styx how things are progressing with a task he was set. Styx says they've spread the word of Thanos' return from death (#34) and many beings have rallied to his flag. And also many others have been press-ganged into service. They've also acquired a fleet of warships that could take any planet and take on most larger forces. Thanos wants more recruited but considers this enough for his personal guard. Styx worries that the men were expecting to seek plunder by attacking planets but his leader conjures up a huge mound of gold and gems and tells him to divide it up among the men - and never question 1 of his decisions again.Then the Mad Titan detects a stowaway aboard and teleports himself and Styx to investigate. They discover crewman Mantrax tending to the severely burned body of Nebula (see #38) who claimed to be Thanos' granddaughter and had commanded this ship while its master was dead. Thanos thought he had killed her but Mantrax explains that the ship automatically doused her flames, and he's been looking after her ever since. But it's no use and she's dying, which will be a relief from her great pain. And he also thinks she's brain-damaged. Thanos senses that this is all correct, but he decides to revive her in this state and keep her alive and ambulent. And of course Mantrax has to die.At this point Mephisto shows up and informs Thanos that there are things he does not know, even in his exalted state. The Mad God tells Styx to give Nebula some quarters and then asks the devil what he means. Last issue and in Thanos Quest we learned that the Infinity Gems are what remains of a being who was once the whole universe but then committed suicide out of loneliness. Mephisto now reveals that before that it had created the devils and demons like himself. It didn't know anything about good and evil but they all turned out evil. He didn't like the result and destroyed them all. However when his suicide gave birth to the current universe Mephisto and pals were reborn into it. But Thanos deduces that the being made sure that the Gems could not be detected by demons.Mephisto now claims to have observed Thanos' omnipotence and wishes to be 1st among his servants. Thanos denies the need for such lackeys, but the devil says he can suggest uses for the Infinity Gems that Thanos might not think of, because he witnessed how the original being worked. For instance Thanos could simultaneously connect with every mind and soul in the universe. The Titan is intrigued by the idea and proceeds to do it. His mind is flooded with sensations and ideas that would boggle any but him.Meanwhile as Thanos stands rapt Mephisto removes the Gauntlet with the Infinity Gems embedded. He puts it on ...... and it starts to strangle him. He removes his hand from it but it continues. He tries to destroy it with the Fire Of Hades but to no avail. Then we see it is Thanos wearing the Gauntlet and doing the strangling. He knew well enough not to trust the devil.Mephisto pleads to be still allowed to serve Thanos. Thanos says he could mould the demon's mind to ensure his faithfulness, but Mephisto says that would destroy the unique perspective he offers. And besides it has just been proven that mighty Thanos has nothing to fear from him. The Mad God agrees to keep him on as a sort of court jester. But the devil still schemes.


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The Lesson
Silver Surfer returns to Earth and heads to Avengers Mansion. She-Hulk, not recognizing him (really?), challenges him and punches his face. It does nothing. Captain America appears and scolds Shulkie, sending her to review the Associates File. Meanwhile, SS tells Cap he is researching Thanos and brings the news that the villain is once more among the living and is up to some nefarious plan to wipe out half the universe. Cap and his guest review the Thanos file, bringing the reader up to date on his career; Cap suggests SS go to Titan to talk to Mentor if he needs more info…

As the Silver Surfer heads toward Titan he is intercepted by the Impossible Man who gets his attention by hitting him in the face with a pie that sends him crashing into the dust of Mars. Impy is there to advise SS on the best way to defeat his enemy Thanos, because since Thanos is even more humorless and boring than SS he can’t possibly hope to defeat him on those terms. So Impy’s advice (in song and dance) is “be a clown,” use humor the throw his foe off-balance. The irritated Surfer yells at him to knock it off which causes Impy to keel over and die. Surfer panics and tries to revive him—and it was just a set-up to give him a big Bugs Bunny kiss. As Impy turns Charlie Chaplin and Groucho to hammer his point home, overwhelming him in a green tsunami and shooting him out of a cannon—the Surfer finally gets fed up and explodes in wrath. He quickly apologizes and promises to lighten up; Impy is delighted and lets SS hit him with a magic pie before he takes off. The Silver Surfer sees that his visitor had a point—the one on top of his head—and wanders off wondering if he just made a joke….


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Confronting one's maker
Last issue Adam Warlock enabled Silver Surfer and Drax the Destroyer to escape from the Soul World inside the Soul Gem where Thanos had imprisoned them.Now the pair race through space to warn the Universe (or more exactly the heroes of Earth) about how omnipotent the 6 Infinity Gems have made the Mad Titan. Suddenly Surfer applies the brakes to his surfboard and tells Drax to go to Titan, moon of Saturn and home of Thanos' father Mentor, while he goes to Earth to warn the heroes before meeting him there. But when he leaves he doesn't head towards Earth.Norrin Radd has something else to take care of 1st. On the way he meets Nova (Frankie Raye), current Herald of Galactus. He tells her he's going to speak to her master and he doesn't want her (an ex-lover) involved. He finds Galactus preparing to consume an uninhabited planet Nova located for him.Norrin tells his former master he wants to ask him about when he himself was turned into Silver Surfer and made the Herald. Big G reminds SS that he was about to eat Norrin's world Zenn-La when Norrin offered instead to be the Herald and find other suitable worlds. We learn now that Galactus turned him into Silver Surfer based on an adolescent fantasy of Norrin's.But Surfer now tells him of Garnok Rebbahn who killed the population of a whole planet and then died at his hands (in a backup tale in Annual #3). But afterwards Norrin had a hallucination about hundreds of worlds' populations that were dead because of *him* when he was the Herald, but he has never felt more than the slightest guilt about them. And recently (#46) Adam Warlock told him that his soul had been tampered with, and he suspects Galactus ...... and Big G admits it. He claims that Norrin Radd was too honourable to do what was necessary. G allowed Surfer to find deserted planets, but when the need was too great he had to provide populated ones. So the master altered the servant's personality.Silver Surfer demands the changes be reversed. Galactus says it's easily done but warns Norrin he won't like it. SS says go ahead and G does it with a thought ...... and Norrin Radd sees his silver hands dripping blood as they had in his hallucination. But the accompanying guilt is so much worse than then. And slowly he is drowned in blood and remorse.Then Galactus lifts his body out of the blood (as on the cover) and wakes him from his 'dream'. The guilt is still there and Big G offers to reverse the reversal. But the Silver Surfer says he has to live with the guilt and take responsibility for his actions.Then he says he must leave to warn Earth about Thanos. Galactus says he's heard of him but doesn't believe any such mortal being can cause him any trouble. Surfer thinks he's wrong but has to go.Afterwards Galactus senses Thanos' invisible presence and tells him to show himself. The villain tells him that it would be foolish for even such as Galactus to meddle in his plans. As a sample of his control over reality he causes the planet Galactus is standing on to cease to exist. And suggests that Big G could vanish just as easily.Thanos teleports away. G retracts his planet-siphoning equipment and swears that this isn't the end of the affair. Thanos and Mephisto are watching his defiance from afar.And inside the Soul Gem on Thanos' Gauntlet the inhabitants of Soul World are meeting (including Autolycus, Gamora, Kray-Tor and Pip the Troll from recent issues). Adam Warlock summarises for them that Thanos has the 6 Infinity Gems which make him all-powerful. They include the Soul Gem within which they live. Their choice is to keep quiet and hope Thanos doesn't think to destroy them, or to take up arms against him. Adam's experience is that ignoring evil never works. Moreover Thanos thinks him dead, so he may prove an unexpected spanner in the works of his plans. So Warlock chooses to fight.


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Detour
In #47 Silver Surfer and Drax the Destroyer escaped from Soul World. Last issue they set out to warn the Earth heroes about the threat of Thanos and the Infinity Gems. Drax headed for Titan and Surfer said he'd go to Earth. But 1st he took a side-trip to confront Galactus about tampering with his mind when he made Norrin Radd into his Herald. Big G undid the changes, which now allowed Surfer to feel guilt over all the populated worlds he'd led Galactus to feed on.Now Drax has reached Titan, moon of Saturn and home to the Titanian Eternals and birthplace of Thanos. He's met up with Mentor and Eros, Thanos' father and brother, and told them to expect SS later but now he's got something important to tell them about Thanos, but in his current brain-damaged state he's forgotten what it is. He also doesn't know where Surfer's gone (but that's because Norrin didn't tell him).Surfer is currently trying to make up for the time he squandered with Galactus by racing faster than ever before towards Earth. But omniscient Thanos is watching him. He comments to his current lackey Mephisto that he could of course just destroy his foe with a thought but he'd prefer to make his end more personal, so for now he'll just send someone to delay him even more.The Titan teleports himself and the devil to a bucolic planet with primitive sentients. He chooses 1 example and transforms it into a large raging monster with a portion of his own power for a day. And he sends it off into space before taking Mephisto away to do something different.As Silver Surfer races past a planet he detects an emergency beacon (which the rules of the sea, sorry space, say he can't ignore). He finds a totally destroyed Kree outpost, and is then attacked by Thanos' monster. Surfer is impressed by the creature's ferocity, power and speed. The beast wins the early encounters and proves immune to the Power Cosmic. Norrin deduces it must have an almost infinite power source. He lures his opponent into a large deep hole in the ground and then buries him there and seals the entrance. But the monster digs free and buries SS in the rubble up to his neck. He's about to bite Norrin's head off when his day of power is up, and the confused Surfer sees the monster shrink to a little furry creature.With no more time to waste Silver Surfer flies away. Thanos and Mephisto materialise. Thanos rationalises that it's not worth his time delaying SS further because his quest is fruitless anyway - no assembly of Earth's heroes can stop him. He notes the pathetic creature at his feet pleading for help, and crushes it beneath his boot.An epilogue leads into next issue as we see a lifesize statue of Thanos gathering cobwebs in a basement on Titan. And a glow of life appears in its eyes.


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Forgiveness
Last issue Thanos sent Silver Surfer into a strange realm which a being named Virtual Reality called the Hall Of Absolutes. VR accompanied him as he was shown the memories from his past that stood out in his mind. And then all was black. Now VR leaves him saying that it was his own memories that led him here, now he must find his own way back.Surfer uses his Power Cosmic to shatter his way through a wall, but that just gets him into a corridor. He provides his own light and begins to explore. After various dead ends he at last enters a room with 3 more doorways in front of him. And out of them walk what seem to be his fellow Defenders Dr Strange, Hulk and Sub-Mariner complaining that he deserted them. But Norrin Radd doesn't understand because Hulk and Subby were killed by Thanos (Infinity Gauntlet #4) and Strange is on Earth monitoring the battle (IG#3).Whatever, they attack him and tell him to admit his errors. SS says he's tried to atone for his past misdeeds (mainly helping Galactus eat inhabited planets) and blasts back at them. Then they rip off their faces to reveal ghoulish cadavers who claim to be Denial, Doubt and Guilt. And he will never be free of them.VR returns and Surfer finds himself shackled. He says that the chains are created by his denial, doubt and guilt. And Norrin must free *himself*. So saying he and the 3 ghouls leave with the cryptic remark "Search (within) yourself for the answer".Surfer strains against his bonds to no avail. Then his dead mother appears. (As with the Defenders we are seeing the elements of his past from last issue.) He says he thought it was his fault that she committed suicide when he was a boy. But she tells him it was just between her and his father, and she produces a key and unlocks 1 of his chains. His equally-suicidal father appears next. Norrin also blames himself for that (with some justification, see #50) but daddy uses another key. The 3rd visitor is Shalla-Bal and she forgives him for pushing her away and leaving her. There goes another lock. His lovers Mantis and Nova (Frankie Raye) are last to forgive him. And Mantis confides that she didn't really die (#9).But there's 1 chain left and no more 'ghosts' to visit him (unless Thanos counts). He realises that the only 1 left to forgive him is himself. He reaches inside his chest and extracts a last key, and he's free.Then he finds himself with Virtual Reality again in the Hall Of Absolutes. But it is no longer stark black and white because he's learned to see in shades of grey. Now that his trial is over VR sends him back to reality, and he arrives on his board once more near Adam Warlock floating in space.But like last issue we end with 1 more unconnected page. This time we see a spaceship crashed in the Blue Area Of The Moon. And someone stumbles from it who had been left for dead.


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The station
As seen in Infinity Crusade #4 Thanos has sent Silver Surfer to create a diversion to cover the attack of the unbeliever heroes against Paradise Omega planet on the far side of the Sun where Goddess and her believer heroes are living.Now we see the Titan aboard his  extremely large spaceship Dreadnought-666 conversing with the robot pilot of the ship. He relates how he got SS to absorb a massive amount of energy from the Sun to turn himself into a living bomb aimed at Paradise Omega's moon. But that power has made him a berserker who may not survive the task. We see the Surfer Bomb shatter the moon ...... and then he awakes in what appears to be a monorail station on Norrin Radd's home planet Zenn-La. He muses that low-polluting monorails are the only form of mass transport on that world, even as he notices that the place is deserted and there are no signs indicating where it is or where the tracks come from or go to. There's only 1 door, marked No Exit.He tries it anyway but a voice tells him not to. He turns and sees a man now in the ticket booth who says he's an unscheduled passenger and demands to see his ticket. Norrin explains that he hasn't got 1 and the guy tells him he can't use the mono without 1. NR says he doesn't even know where the mono goes. The exasperated guy explains that everybody knows it goes to the end of the line. And then he realises that Surfer is a 'halfway case' and tells him to come back when he's ready.Luckily at this point Norrin's mother (Elmar) and father (Jartran) turn up to help him. He's confused because  they're both dead (as revealed in #57 and #50 respectively). And then of course he realises that means he's dead too. Elmar explains that this is the station between life and afterlife. But he is a halfway with a choice of going on or going back. Jartran scoffs at this idea and says that his son must accept that he's dead.Norrin ask what he should do. Elmar says it's his choice. But she does say that she now regrets having committed suicide and missing her life and watching him grow. Jartran advises him not to go back because life is empty and futile. But Norrin knows this attitude is because his father failed in his life and he too committed suicide. And (in #50) Norrin accepted that this was partly his fault for turning away from his father in his hour of need. The 2 men forgive each other.A mono-train arrives and Norrin's parents board it. But he himself elects to stay. And he smashes through the not-exit door ...... and returns to reality unconscious on his cosmic surfboard falling towards Paradise Omega. He survives the impact and Thanos is disappointed.


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Burning
In Warlock & Infinity Watch #19 Silver Surfer was beginning to have doubts about the Goddess. In Infinity Crusade #3 Moondragon wanted him to join in an attack on heroes who have been his friends, and he questioned the rightness of that. She mind-blasted him which finally freed him from Goddess' influence. So then she called Firelord to attack the blasphemer.Now the fight continues. Surfer doesn't want to hurt Firelord but he can't allow him to keep him from warning the heroes of the impending attack. So he needs to end it quickly and thinks he succeeds with a blast of Power Cosmic. But Pyreus Kril is also an ex-Herald Of Galactus like SS so he bounces back from that. Surfer's next move is to separate him from his flaming staff and try to outrun him on his surfboard. But Firelord is soon on his back choking him with the staff. They trade more blasts until Firelord nails him full on and Surfer falls to cause a new crater on the Moon.As he sinks towards unconsciousness and death his thoughts are on his love Shalla-Bal. She recently died (in the SS: Homecoming graphic novel) and he went to Hell to get her back (SS/Warlock: Resurrection mini-series). He recalls their last time together after that with wine and a blazing fire. Things always seem to keep them apart, including her duty as Empress of their planet Zenn-La. So they always make the most of whatever time they get together.Now his determination not to leave Shalla makes Norrin Rad rise back up with renewed vigour. He blasts and pounds his opponent trying to break Goddess' hold on him. But Firelord's religious fervour won't let him give in. Even after SS pummels and blasts him into the same state that Surfer himself had been in, Firelord still tries to crawl after him has he flies away.And we see Thanos watching all this from afar and saying that he needs Surfer's help.


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Finale & Prelude
It's near the end of Infinity Gauntlet #6 and Adam Warlock now has the god-like power of the Gauntlet. Dr Strange, Silver Surfer and Thor prepare to challenge him, so Warlock wishes them away back to Strange's Greenwich Village house where his servant Wong has returned with no memory of having been 1 of the half-population of the universe that Thanos wiped from existence.DrS suggests there's nothing they can do about Adam having the Infinity Gems, so they'll just have to hope he's a more benevolent and sane god than Thanos or Nebula. (But Gamora and Pip The Troll will persuade him differently in DrS, Sorcerer Supreme #36.) Thor flies off back to his own life as Surfer comments that he didn't seem like the Thunder God they know. Stephen Strange agrees but pretends that Thor didn't reveal his new secret identity Eric Masterson to him (DRSSS#35). Norrin Radd declines Stephen's offer to stay here for some much-needed rest because 1st he intends to head back to distant space to destroy the palace Thanos built for Death. (But as usual events will prevent him from carrying out his plan until he (or the writer) seemingly forgets about it.)That's the end of this issue's (and Surfer's) involvement in the Infinity Gauntlet event.But as his cosmic Surfboard takes him past the Moon he is stopped by a previous foe Midnight Sun (who the Kree sicced on him in #29-30). The guy is still voiceless and amnesiac but is hoping that Surfer knows something of his past and identity, and that he can somehow get him to tell him about it. But of course they just start fighting. Sun's enhanced body and martial arts moves enable him to hold his own against the cosmic might of the Surfer until they crash to the surface of the Moon next to the Apollo Moon lander.But then a cosmic blast renders MS apparently dead. But he's only playing possum and renews his attack when the solicitous Surfer bends over him. So SS throws the Moon Lander at him (sacrilege!). Sifting through the wreckage he finds the body again and removes his mask to check for life. And is horrified by the scarred face he sees. So of course MS attacks him again. The fight escalates until ...... a spoken word from Black Bolt stops them with a moonquake. He has come with Gorgon, Karnak and Lockjaw from the Inhumans' current home in the Blue Area of the Moon to see what the ruckus is all about. Surfer says he'll gladly stop fighting and leave. He tells them what little he knows of Midnight Sun. The Inhumans offer the mystery man sanctuary and what help they can give. He agrees to stay.But on the way back into space Surfer is stopped again by a mental apparition of the Collector who asks for his help. His collection has been destroyed or scattered, and 1 missing item in particular will kill millions unless he gets it back. Noble Norrin Radd of course agrees to help.


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The universe according to Thanos part 2: Exodus
Last issue we saw (or we think we did) Thanos use the Infinity Gauntlet to kill all the heroes ranged against him except Silver Surfer who he kept to record his godly deeds in the holy book of Thanos. And Mistress Death now fawns at his side. Now Norrin Radd records what he has seen.We see the graveyard of all the heroes. Thanos went on to add the Kree, Skrulls and Shi'ar to his subservient empire, to join the constant stream of new deaths for Death. Even Norrin's home planet Zenn-La has fallen, and the Surfer is just glad he doesn't know what befell his love Shalla Bal. The Titan took revenge on Earth by changing its orbit to induce an Ice Age, but he keeps some places warm to feed the mortuaries.Finally the powerless SS cracks and refuses to write any more. He tries to provoke the Mad God into killing him but Thanos says he keeps him to keep reminding himself of the past. We see shambling skeletons of some of the heroes, but they cannot speak to remind him. Surfer still refuses so Thanos exhibits his power by turning him into a jester, a ballet dancer, a Shakespearian actor and a clown, forcing him to enact the roles. Then back to Silver Surfer again.Norrin pretends to be broken to Thanos' will. But as he dallies with his consort Death, Thanos lets go of Surfer's leash and Norrin slips away and throws himself from the upraised palace to the jagged rocks of Necronos below. Thanos immediately teleports to the broken body and breaks it even more before using his power to heal it and bring Norrin back to life. But to stop him killing himself again Thanos restores the Power Cosmic which will make Surfer invulnerable.But this was Silver Surfer's cunning plan., Now he can attack the villain. Supremely confidant in his god-status Thanos allows a battle to take place. They both continually fire blasts at each other until we lose sight of them in the coruscating energy ...... and then Adam Warlock wakes Surfer up. This issue and last were a dream of the fate of the universe if they don't stop Thanos. And Warlock at last sends him streaking to where the heroes are fighting Thanos, to make the move that should win the battle.


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Triangle
Silver Surfer's banishment to Earth by Galactus was ended in #1. But another Kree/Skrull War has broken out. In #2 Norrin Radd's homeworld Zenn-La declared neutrality, and Surfer helped Empress Shalla Bal tell the Skrulls to stay away. At the end of last issue he got a message from Shalla-Bal asking for help against the Kree.Reaching Zenn-La space he finds 3 Kree battlecruisers. He disables 1 by flying through it on his cosmic surfboard. But the other 2 descend to the planet and transform (like Transformers) into Destructoids (containing thousands of soldiers). They see an apparently agrarian world (Galactus consumed its energy but Shalla-Bal with the aid of Surfer's Power Cosmic made the planet bloom, all in the Silver Surfer 1-shot). The Empress orders them to leave or face the consequences. When they don't SS shows them the consequences by flying through 1 of the Destructoids. The other vessel staggers him with a blast but he destroys the ship's weapons and the rational Captain surrenders.Norrin sees his love Shalla-Bal waving and calling to him from her distant tower but he ignores her and enters that last Destructoid. 1 fanatical trooper tries to attack him but the Captain orders him to stop. Surfer tells the Captain the Zenn-la is under his protection, and the Kree must leave it alone. The Kree soldier replies that only the Supreme Intelligence can agree to that, so SS says he'll go to Kree-Lar to tell *him* that. And he'll tow the the Kree ship a long way from here on the way.But 1st he goes to visit Shalla-Bal. He responds to her stiffly and says their love is over. He now loves Mantis. And then he leaves her weeping.Mantis turned up at the end of #3 and since then has been helping Surfer investigate the Elders Of The Universe's plans. At then end of last issue when Norrin headed back to Zenn-La she followed the Elders in her own unique way, which we see now is by transferring her consciousness to be reborn from a plant on the planet where they are now meeting. Which turns out to be the Earth because it is the 1 planet that Galactus has sworn to leave alone.Present are Astronomer, Champion, Collector, Gardener, Grandmaster, Possessor, Runner and Trader. Missing are Contemplator, Ego The Living Planet and Obliterator. Ego obviously can't actually land on another planet. Contemplator is on a mission we'll learn about later. Obliterator went after Silver Surfer and Mantis (last 2 issues) and they can't imagine he failed to kill them (we know better), despite Champion and Runner having failed to stop SS (#1 and #3 respectively).Gardener now outlines their plan for us (and eavesdropping Mantis). Astronomer has deduced that by destroying Galactus they will collapse this universe, and a new 1 will be born in which *they* will take his place. To accomplish this they will use the 6 Soul Gems that Thanos gathered together for the battle that killed him and Adam Warlock (Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2). Warlocks's Soul Gem was left on his grave where Gardener retrieved it (as revealed in Hulk #248), but the other 5 Gems were believed destroyed. But Astronomer knew they could never die, they were scattered throughout space-time.Collector discovered where 1 was but then he was killed by Korvac (Av#174). Grandmaster organised the Contest Of Champions played between him and Death, which resulted in Collector being brought back to life, after which he was able to get the Soul Gem. Champion won another Gem in 1 of his fight contests, and Trader traded for 2 more. And Contemplator is currently negotiating for the 6th.At this point it becomes clear that some of the Elders expected Mantis to be watching, and deliberately arranged this meeting in a lush tropical setting. Gardener takes control of the local plants and turns them against her. She manages to mobilise some plants in defence but she is soon overwhelmed. She has only 1 chance to get what she learned to Norrin Radd, and so she sends her consciousness across space to the plants of Zenn-La. And Shalla-Bal thinks she hears her plants whispering the name Mantis.Later Silver Surfer reaches Kree-Lar. He is allowed through its encircling battleships to talk to the Supreme Intelligence. He descends to the planet that is completely covered by city and enters the Hall Of Judgement where resides the Kree Supremor and his chief coordinator Nenora. He faces the screen showing the giant head which is the representation of the collective of the greatest Blue Kree minds from all history and asks that Zenn-La be kept out of the Kree/Skrull War. Surprisingly the SI acquiesces because the place isn't worth fighting over.But then SS asks that Earth be excluded too because he's grown fond of the place. But Supremor can't agree to that because the place is too dangerous. It has a high proportion of superbeings, including Rick Jones whose mental powers ended the previous Kree/Skrull War (Av#97) and which the Supremor tried to use to restart Kree evolution (Captain Marvel #41-46). It is also the place where the Kree created the Inhumans (as explained in a backup tale in Thor #147). And where the Kree's plant enemy the Cotati merged with Mantis to give birth to the Celestial Messiah.Surfer claims that if that is the case then he will be forced to side with the Skrulls to oppose the Kree. But Supremor reveals that *he* has the missing Soul Gem and uses it to steal Norrin Radd's soul. He explains to Nenora and the watching Contemplator that he needs the Gem to enable him to absorb great minds from the *Pink* Kree race too and suppress the millennia-long racial hatred between the Pinks and Blues. So he can't let the Elders have the Gem, but at least Silver Surfer is now out of both of their hairs.


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Adam Warlock, protector of the Soul World
In #44 Thanos stole the souls of Silver Surfer and Drax the Destroyer with the Soul Gem. He presumably didn't know they'd wind up in Soul World within the Gem, as we found out last issue where they met Autolycus, Gamora and Pip the Troll. Drax was still driven to kill Thanos and decided the only way to get to him was to destroy Soul World. Gamora remained behind to delay the Destroyer while the other 3 sought out Adam Warlock who might be the only 1 who can stop him (since Surfer doesn't have his Cosmic Power here). They found him meditating on a tall spire of rock and Warlock flew off to deal with the problem.Now the 3 laboriously make their way down from the pinnacle while the super-strong Drax finally lands a blow which lays out Gamora. Then he remembers he wants to destroy the World and he's figured out how to do it. He flies up into the sky, much higher than the tower of rock, powers up his fists and prepares to plunge down to split the world in 2. But Adam shows up to try and dissuade him. Of course the monomaniacal Destroyer won't listen to reason so they start to fight in midair. And soon Drax sends Warlock plummeting to the ground preceded by his staff. Which Norrin Radd sees from halfway down the rockface and thinks he may have bet on the wrong man.But Warlock disappears in a flash of light before he hits the ground (as he did at the end of last issue when he jumped of the spire). Drax goes down to investigate but finds only the staff. He tosses it behind him but Warlock's hand reaches up to grab it and whack him with it. The fight begins again. Adam continues to try to talk the behemoth down while dodging his blows and getting in licks of his own. Eventually Warlock is on Drax's back with a choke hold. Drax finds it hard to breath but still flies them both up into the air and tries to shake him off. In the rarefied upper air he passes out and Warlock lets him fall to the ground. And Adam comments that Drax was beaten by his inability to conceive that his incorporeal form didn't need to breathe in Soul World.The 3 climbers have now got here and Gamora is awake. They salute the Destroyer as a valiant but misguided foe, and then turn their attentions to the matter of Thanos. Adam thinks he has no chance of persuading Norrin (let alone Drax) to remain here and live in peace, so he agrees to send them back to the real world. Even though this will probably alert the Mad Titan to the potential threat from within his Soul Gem.Warlock comments that here he finds relief from the conflicting passions that beset his mortal form. But he knows that this World isn't safe from Thanos and so the universe's problem is also his. Gamora fears that he means to leave them but Adam only 'exiles' Surfer and Drax from Soul World, at the same time promising them aid when they need it.Drax and Norrin's souls return to their bodies on the ruined world where Thanos left them. Mephisto appears to warn his old enemy Silver Surfer that Thanos is off in a 'far-distant corner of the universe' contemplating what he can do to reality with the 6 Infinity Gems. But soon he will return with his plans laid.Millions of lightyears away the devil rejoins Thanos who knows what he has just done. Mephisto claims that he just wanted to distress his old foe. Thanos says he'll have to send 'special agents' to deal with the annoying pest.


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Cages
The expedition to stop Thanos has come to a halt because of the Hulk’s reluctance to join the team, Silver Surfer decides he needs a diversion to prepare for the coming battle and visits Central Park. There he finds Rhino releasing the animals from their cages in the zoo. Rhino explains that, with the end of the world imminent the animals deserve to spend their last days in freedom. Surfer assures him that Thanos will be stopped and asks his help in returning the animals to their cages. Rhino responds with a punch. A fight ensues with the Surfer reluctant to strike back with his full power. Eventually the frustrated Surfer seizes Rhino by the horn, and prepares to strike but they are distracted by a gunshot: a police officer has shot a tiger. Rhino shows his tender side, weeping over the slain animal, explaining he only wanted to help the animals. Surfer understands but explains that cages are frequently for the animals’ own good, and, in the absence of any alternative, the hero and the villain round up the animals, with the Surfer healing the tiger. The Silver Surfer returns to the meeting place to find an impatient Hulk sarcastically requesting his attendance at the party.


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The name is Thanos
Silver Surfer had never met Thanos before, but last issue he had a dream about Death returning the villain to life with a mission, and the only hero standing in the way of that mission is the Surfer. And then he awoke to find Thanos there, alive and sitting on a hoverchair/throne.Thanos explains that he's here to correct an imbalance in nature. If Norrin Radd will step from his hovering surfboard onto Thanos' hovering vehicle he'll demonstrate the problem. As soon as SS is aboard they teleport to a different planet. Surfer thinks this is a trick to separate him from his board and he attacks the fiend. But his cosmic blasts have no effect on the mad Titan.Norrin decides to bide his time and listen to Thanos pontificating about the balance of life and death. It turns out this is Earth, and he explains how humankind have become 'criminally' overpopulated. He illustrates this by teleporting them to Tokyo in rush hour, mountains of garbage in the US, examples of industrial and nuclear pollution. Then he takes them to a future in ruins. Surfer refuses to believe this is inevitable, but Thanos claims no-one on Earth will prevent it.Then they teleport to another planet, Salaria, inhabited by cute and peaceful little primitive creatures who don't fear them because they have no predators. But Thanos predicts that in 20(!) years they will have overrun the available space, and their paradise will become a hell of war and cannibalism.Then they teleport to the pinnacle of a tall narrow rock outcrop somewhere else. Thanos sums up what they have seen as the balance of the universe swinging too far towards life over death. But the overabundance of life will cause massive die-offs, which he exaggerates as ending with no life at all. And this wouldn't suit his mistress Death because she prefers a continuous and endless stream of deaths. And that is why she has sent him to restore the balance. Norrin asks Thanos what his solution is. The simple answer is to kill 50% of the population of the Universe.Surfer reminds the Titan that (in his dream) Death said that he would be an obstacle to their plan. He won't stand by and permit mass murder. Thanos replies instead that the Surfer will *help* him, and has already done so on Salaria. On Earth SS picked up some germs which would normally be killed by his journeys through space. But Thanos teleported them to Salaria where Norrin inadvertently infected friendly aliens. The villain also transported them back in time when they went to Salaria, so by now he figures half the population will be dead. At last Surfer's board catches up with them, and Thanos suggests SS hurry to save the other half, unless he'd rather stay to fight. As expected Surfer zooms off.Thanos is left alone to gloat. But elsewhere Chronos hears the laughter and realises that the mad Titan lives again.Surfer reaches Salaria and finds piles of bodies. He touches 1 of the sick but still alive creatures and generates a counter-agent to the germs. Then he sends the alien off to 'infect' others. As he surveys the harm that he has caused, Norrin Radd decides to stay to help clean up the mess. But then he swears to hunt down Thanos and stop his insane scheme.In an epilogue Chronos, ancestor and god of the Titans, reaches forth from his higher plane of existence and reanimates a body which breaks free of the grave. Drax The Destroyer, sworn enemy of Thanos, lives again.


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The explorer
Galactus, Dr Strange, Silver Surfer and Nova (Frankie Raye) are travelling between dimensions seeking the origin of a mystic energy that has rendered Eternity comatose, and is also appearing on many planets in the Galaxy including on Monster Island on Earth from where they have tracked it. But last issue Galactus' spherical spaceship was savaged by mechanical wolves and he sent Nova and Surfer out to fight them. But then the wolves' master turned up and told the duo he wants the ship.Galactus' current and ex-Heralds refuse his demand so he shoots them with a powerful weapon and sets the dogs on them. Frankie is quickly surrounded and the master stops Norrin Radd going to her aid. While they fight Surfer explains that they are on a mission to save their universe and the villain counters that he needs their ship to escape this dimensional corridor and return to *his* universe. Meanwhile a hound snaps the tether which connects Nova to the ship and she starts to drift away.Time for an interlude. In #67 we saw that Nebula was in a vegetative state on Titan being looked after by her faithful Geatar. Now Geatar steals a spacecraft and escapes with his mistress.It is the foe who saves Nova by grabbing her tether line and then persuades Surfer to take him into the ship or he'll leave her to float forever in this non-dimension. Inside they all join Galactus and Dr Strange. The villain introduces himself as Khoon The Explorer, claims the ship and tells the other to leave it. Stephen Strange starts a mystic attack but Khoon just blasts him. Galactus pretends to be outmatched and asks Khoon for his life-story.He was the greatest explorer in his dimension, and after exploring every corner there he set out into this dimensional corridor intending to visit other planes of existence. But his ship couldn't withstand the stresses here and it fell apart. He was safe in his armour and used the debris of his ship to fashion his 'hounds'. They explored the corridor and found many exits, and a map of the whole place is stored in his battlesuit. But without a ship he couldn't pass through the portals.Galactus has learned what he needs to know. Now he easily defeats Khoon and embeds him and his armour into the navigational system. Dr Strange recovers and Big G says that with this added knowledge they'll soon find the way to their intended destination. And we see them symbolically flying into the mouth of Magus.In another interlude we see an unnamed planet and a castle wherein many men are being tortured. Their torturer, who next issue we will learn is named Morg, chooses 1 and chops his head off.


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The Soul World
In #44 Thanos appeared to kill Silver Surfer and Drax The Destroyer. Last issue he said he'd stolen their souls with the Soul Gem. Now we find out what that means.The duo find themselves elsewhere and are greeted by a 4-armed, 2-legged alien head who welcomes them to Soul World. (Long-time readers of Starlin-stuff will know that Soul World is inside the Soul Gem and is where souls taken by the Soul Gem reside. They may also recognise the alien as Judge Kray-tor, a villainous enemy of Adam Warlock - but in Soul World everyone is nice and they're all friends.)Drax immediately demands to know where Thanos is. The head says he doesn't know this person, but the Destroyer senses Thanos everywhere so he tries to beat the 'truth' out of him. Surfer tells him to stop hitting Judge Kray-Tor (we'll find out soon how he knows the guy's name), and tries to explain that he senses Thanos all around because they are now prisoners on a world inside a Gem on the Titan's hand. It takes a while to sink in (because Drax is a bear of very little brain) but when it does the Destroyer decides the only way to get to his enemy Thanos is to destroy the world. Surfer tries to dissuade him but Drax backhands him away, and Norrin Radd discovers that it hurts. So he hits Drax back and only damages his own fist. Drax flies away as SS tries a Cosmic Power blast, but that doesn't work at all.Norrin asks out loud why his powers don't work and his surfboard won't come to him? A green-skinned woman answers that his board and physical powers weren't transferred with his spirit to Soul World but he's given himself an image of his normal body. So his next question is why then does Drax still have his powers? She says he doesn't but his self-belief is so strong that *that* powers him here.Norrin suddenly realises that he knows the woman's name is Gamora just like he knew who Kray-Tor was even though he's never met either of them. (And in the background we see old Starlin chars blue-skinned Autolycus and little Pip the Troll helping the Judge up.) Pip tells him that in Soul World everybody knows your name, and everything else about you. Gamora adds that Drax on the other hand is brain-damaged since his previous life ended by brain-death so he can't connect properly. Radd then asks why then doesn't he know all this immediately, and Gamora answers that it will take time for his mind to process everything.She also claims that she can sense a "disalignment with your inner self". Norrin protests that he's always at peace with himself, but then begins to feel that she may be right. But that's not important now ...... compared with Drax intending to destroy Soul World. Gamora says that he has the power to do it but it will take him some time to figure out how. So this gives them time to reach the 1 person who may be able to stop him. (Hands up who thinks she means Adam Warlock? Oh, you all looked at the cover.) This person is currently meditating on top of a very tall vertical rock spire, and when he does this he cuts all contact with the rest of Soul World.So Autolycus, Pip and Surfer start climbing the pinnacle. Pip says they're going to see Adam Warlock and Autolycus relates Adam's life story. He was created on Earth by a group of scientists called the Hive but when he emerged from his cocoon he was more powerful than expected, and left Earth for the stars (Fantastic Four #66-67). Later the High Evolutionary named him Adam Warlock and gave him the Soul Gem as a weapon (Marvel Premiere #1). He had many adventures in his own series and elsewhere, including encountering Autolycus, Gamora, Kray-Tor, Pip - all of whom eventually got taken into the Soul Gem. Warlock himself was consumed by the Gem during a battle with Thanos (Avengers Annual #7 & Marvel 2-In-1 Annual #2). In life he was a mighty warrior but here he is a mystic and the leader of Soul World's denizens.We learn that while these 3 are on their quest Gamora is going to keep Drax occupied. Pip assures SS she's up to the job - in life she was known as the most dangerous woman in the Galaxy. Gamora accosts Drax who doesn't remember her. She says they only crossed paths once when he destroyed her spaceship (Warlock #15), and now she'll repay him by attacking him. Her blows soon enrage the brute and then she starts dodging *his* fists and flung boulders. Her intention is to keep him from thinking about how to destroy the World until Adam can solve the problem more permanently.The 3 guys reach the summit (which seems much more spacious than I'd expected) and ask Warlock for help. Adam, robed like a monk with a simple wooden staff, immediately knows all about what's happening, even before SS explains that Thanos has got hold of the Infinity Gems (and he also seems to already know them by their new name). He expresses disappointment that death hasn't cured the Titan of his obsession for power. He also worries for his World that Thanos will take revenge on him by attacking this World.Gamora is still playing cat and mouse with Drax, and the Destroyer is getting madder. He abandons physical attack and starts blasting at her. She's starting to get worried.Adam adds to what Gamora said by telling Norrin that his soul has been tampered with. He thinks it was when Galactus turned him from Norrin Radd to Silver Surfer.But the immediate problem is Drax. Warlock takes the quick way down by stepping off the spire into midair. He doesn't fly but plummets towards the ground. 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Deeply buried secrets
Silver Surfer is racing towards Earth to warn the heroes there of the return from death of Thanos and the menace he presents to the universe with the 6 Infinity Gems. The Mad Titan delayed him last issue with a monster (after Norrin Radd delayed *himself* by a side-trip to see Galactus in #48) and now he's going to take a more direct hand.Surfer and his board are passing Earth's Moon when a blast sends him to its surface. Temporarily dazed he hears a voice telling him to wake up and recalls his father Jartran Radd waking him as a pre-teen to spend another day in pursuit of knowledge. But the voice is really that of a stone 'statue' of Thanos, actually his original body that Adam Warlock turned to stone in Marvel 2-In-1 Annual #2. It was left on Titan and Thanos animated it at the end of last issue.Thanos claims that SS and he are alike in some ways. They are both expatriates from their homeworlds (Titan and Zenn-La). Norrin points out that Thanos killed his own mother and other Titanians. Thanos calls him righteous and unforgiving, which he senses hits a nerve. After an exchange of blasts where SS comes off worse, the villain considers using the Mind Gem to uncover Radd's hidden memories. But he decides against it because it would destroy Surfer's mind, and Norrin is too entertaining an adversary - and being a god now he can afford to let him live. So he uses a gentler mind-probe.We see a slightly older Norrin Radd conducting a scientific experiment when his friend Shalla Bal asks him out to play in the perfect paradise that is their city and world. Robots do all the necessary work and the Zenn-Lavians are free to do whatever they want. But Norrin has learned from his scientist father that this existence has left most without purpose and robbed them of their spirit. So he bids Shalla-Bal goodbye and goes to see something scientific his father wants to show him.Silver Surfer is resisting the mind-probe, so the stone Thanos beats the resistance out of him.I think Norrin is a teen in the next scene where Jartran warns him against losing himself in momentary pleasures, especially drugs. And also warns him that such a civilisation can't continue forever - something will change.Next we see him having his head depilated by a robotic laser, which is a sign of the state of manhood. We also learn that Mrs Radd was 1 of many who committed suicide in this 'perfect' existence, despite Jartran trying to share his strength with her. Jartran gets an award for an improvement of something like virtual reality entertainment. But he can't get funding for the kind of real science he'd like to do.Norrin is now a grown man when his father has his award taken away because he stole another scientist's idea for his famous invention. Jartran tells him that it was a small part of his work that he neglected to give credit for. And Norrin realises that his father is fallible and walks away in disappointment.But SS has now regained full consciousness and directs his surfboard to smash through stone Thanos, breaking him into bits. But the pieces re-coalesce and beat Surfer up again. And Thanos probes for the end of the story.Shalla-Bal comes to Norrin with the news that Jartran has committed suicide. Norrin appears stone-faced and says he'll attend to the funeral arrangements after he's finished what he's doing. But when his friend leaves he allows tears to fall.And then change does come to Zenn-La when Galactus arrives, and Norrin becomes his Herald in return for Big G sparing the world.Thanos now declares noble Norrin Radd a hypocrite who wouldn't give his father the forgiveness and understanding that might have deterred him from taking his own life. And Surfer buried this memory. SS thinks this must be part of what Galactus did to his mind (to dull his conscience so he wouldn't baulk at delivering populated worlds to him, as we learned in #48). But Thanos claims that he didn't detect the hand of Galactus in hiding *this* memory.Surfer's reaction is an even more powerful display of the Power Cosmic which atomises all of the statue apart from the head. Thanos can't be bothered to recreate the statue again. Surfer may continue to Earth, for all the good it will do him. But the 2 of them now know that Norrin's nobility is flawed.The weary Surfer staggers back on to his board and completes the trip to Earth, crashing through the skylight of Dr Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.


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The Return of the Defenders Part 3: Blood Rites
After Shanzar (in Namor’s body) has carried off Namor (in Rick Jones’ body), the Silver Surfer arrives to offer his help to the incredible Hulk and Doctor Strange. After filling him in on the story thus far, the reunited Defenders try to discover their kidnapped partner’s whereabouts. Strange and the Surfer are at a loss, until Hulk suggests Delphi, who is able to locate Shanzar. The heroes head to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where an energy dome is sitting on the ocean floor. Shanzar opens a portal for the heroes to enter and orders his demons to attack. The three Defenders battle the demons, unaware that they have been manipulated all along by the villain: they were duped into bringing the Surfer to Shanzar’s lair, their actions are forming part of the spell to summon an Elder God known as the Wild One from his dimensional prison, and the Surfer’s energy is being drained to power the sacrificial knife that plays the final part in the ceremony. When the knife is fully powered, Shanzar uses it to stab the Silver Surfer, whose spilled blood is the final ingredient needed for the Dark God’s resurrection. As the ground quakes, the heroes and villains flee to the surface, where Namor/Rick is set free. The newly revived Wild One bursts to the surface, a leather-jacketed hipster driving a red hot rod. The Wild One heads off for some fun in Hawaii and the heroes pursue. The Defenders arrive to see the leering villain seated on the beach of a flaming island and surrounded by demons, welcoming them to his hellish Fantasy Island. To be continued in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual #2.