Death of the Silver Surfer #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeath of the Silver Surfer #4 is the pivotal penultimate chapter of Greg Pak's five-issue limited series — the issue in which Norrin Radd transfers a portion of the Power Cosmic to Kelly Koh, making her the first all-new female Silver Surfer in the main Marvel Universe continuity. The debut of Koh as the Sentinel of the Spaceways carries additional cultural weight because it arrived in the direct wake of Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which had itself introduced a female Silver Surfer (Shalla-Bal, played by Julia Garner) to mainstream audiences. Rather than a triumphant passing-of-the-torch, the issue frames Koh's empowerment through personal tragedy — her mother dies in the chaos unleashed by the Blood of Galactus — giving the character an emotionally grounded origin that critics noted broke sharply from the tidy, heroic send-off readers expected.
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The series was announced in February 2025 and launched June 11, 2025, written by Greg Pak and drawn by Sumit Kumar, with covers by Dike Ruan and a roster of variant artists including Joe Quesada, Ron Lim, Nick Bradshaw, John Romita Jr., and Tradd Moore — edited by Tom Groneman. For Kumar, Death of the Silver Surfer was his first full-length Marvel limited series, following shorter anthology work on Web of Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood. Pak deliberately set the series within current Marvel continuity rather than as a standalone, and wove in the Bureau of Alien Neutralization (B.A.N.) — an anti-alien organization he had first introduced in his earlier Planet Hulk: Worldbreaker miniseries — as the earthbound human-threat axis of the story, giving the series connective tissue with his own broader body of Marvel work.
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- Release date: September 24, 2025; cover-dated November 2025. It is the fourth issue of a five-issue limited series.
- First in-story appearance of Kelly Koh as the Silver Surfer: Norrin Radd transfers part of the Power Cosmic to her in this issue, making her the first original female Silver Surfer in the main Marvel Universe (Earth-616) continuity.
- Kelly Koh (a S.H.I.E.L.D. academy graduate and former S.W.O.R.D. operative serving the Bureau of Alien Neutralization) had been introduced as an antagonist in Death of the Silver Surfer #1; by issue #4 she has switched sides after realizing the true nature of her employer.
- The issue's central villain force is the 'Blood of Galactus' — a horde of monsters weaponized by B.A.N. director Dennis Harmon, who planned to blame the attack on aliens as a bid for political power.
- Koh gains the Power Cosmic at the moment her mother dies in the Blood of Galactus assault on the B.A.N. substation — a narrative device that ties her cosmic transformation directly to personal loss.
- Guest stars in the issue include the Fantastic Four (notably Sue Storm), Korg, and Skaar — the latter two Sakaarians summoned by the Silver Surfer, connecting the story to Pak's Planet Hulk mythology.
- The B.A.N. and its robotic defense system 'Beeper' play a thematic role: Beeper's rigid adherence to an outdated directive to neutralize aliens directly causes the disaster, making bureaucratic blind obedience the issue's moral fulcrum.
- The series was collected in a trade paperback (Death of the Silver Surfer TPB, 2026) collecting all five issues; co-creators are writer Greg Pak and interior artist Sumit Kumar, with Tiago Palma on additional art and Frank D'Armata on colors.
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