Death of the Silver Surfer #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeath of the Silver Surfer #3 — titled 'Chapter 3: Fantastic' — marks the structural turning point of Greg Pak's five-issue 2025 limited series: it is the issue where the Fantastic Four move from background reference to active combatants, forcing Kelly Koh into her first direct moral confrontation over the Silver Surfer's captivity and the weaponization of the Blood of Galactus. That moral reckoning, set up here, is the narrative engine that drives Koh's eventual transformation into the new Power Cosmic bearer in issues #4–5, making issue #3 the hinge on which the entire legacy-character arc turns. The issue also deepens Pak's continuity thread linking the Bureau of Alien Neutralization — an organization he originally created in Planet Hulk: Worldbreaker — to the main Marvel cosmological stage, cementing the series as a genuine expansion of established lore rather than a self-contained elseworlds exercise. As the chapter where the series shifts from character introduction to full cosmic stakes, it represents the payoff of the miniseries' worldbuilding investment.
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Marvel announced the five-issue Death of the Silver Surfer limited series in February 2025, pairing writer Greg Pak — whose Planet Hulk run had already established much of the organizational lore (the B.A.N., key supporting cast) the series draws on — with artist Sumit Kumar, whose kinetic style had been developed on Web of Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood. Editor Thomas Groneman shepherded the book under EIC C.B. Cebulski, with covers by Dike Ruan and colors by Frank D'Armata across all five chapters. The series was explicitly developed in parallel with Marvel's broader 2025 Fantastic Four publishing initiative, with reviewers noting deliberate thematic and promotional connections to the Fantastic Four film released that year.
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- Released August 27, 2025; cover-dated October 2025; chapter title 'Chapter 3: Fantastic' — the third of five issues in the limited series.
- Written by Greg Pak; interior art (pencils and inks) by Sumit Kumar; colors by Frank D'Armata; letters by Joe Sabino; main cover by Dike Ruan with cover colors by Rachelle Rosenberg.
- The Fantastic Four — Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and the Thing — enter the story as full active participants for the first time in this issue, confronting both the Galactus-blood threat and Kelly Koh directly.
- The Blood of Galactus, a universe-threatening cosmic element stolen by corporate villain Dennis Harmon of Eaglestar International, becomes the central plot object driving the apocalyptic stakes in this chapter.
- Kelly Koh — a B.A.N. agent introduced in issue #1 whose first appearance is the key debut of the larger arc — faces her pivotal moral crisis here as she witnesses the Silver Surfer's imprisoned state and the consequences of the organization she serves.
- Cameo appearances in issue #3 include Elloe Kaifi, Korg, No-Name, and Skaar — characters rooted in Greg Pak's prior Planet Hulk mythology, reinforcing the series' continuity with that cosmic corner of the Marvel Universe.
- The Bureau of Alien Neutralization (B.A.N.), which Pak originally introduced in the Planet Hulk: Worldbreaker miniseries, is the antagonist organization underpinning the entire arc, making this series a direct narrative continuation of that earlier work.
- Variant covers for this issue include a Simone Bianchi variant (1:25 incentive), a Claudio Castellini variant, a J. Scott Campbell 'Just Spectacular Collection' variant, and a J. Scott Campbell Virgin variant (1:100 incentive); the full five-issue series was also collected in a TPB edition.
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