Death of the Silver Surfer #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeath of the Silver Surfer #5 is the finale of Greg Pak's five-issue 2025 limited series and the issue that fully installs Kelly Koh — a former government alien-hunter who once pursued Norrin Radd — as Marvel's new Sentinel of the Spaceways, making her the first new ongoing bearer of the Silver Surfer mantle in decades of mainline Earth-616 continuity. The passing of the Power Cosmic from Norrin to an adversary-turned-successor places the series in the tradition of high-profile Marvel legacy transfers (Sam Wilson as Captain America, Jane Foster as Thor), while the deliberate timing alongside the MCU's Fantastic Four: First Steps — which itself introduced a female Silver Surfer in Shalla-Bal — gave the comics-page transition unusual cultural resonance. As the issue in which Kelly and Norrin stand together against a Galactus-born cosmic threat before Norrin's fate is sealed, it closes a self-contained tragedy while explicitly opening a new chapter for the franchise under the Fantastic Four's blessing.
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The series was announced by Marvel in early 2025 and pitched by Greg Pak — known for Planet Hulk and his Star Wars: Darth Vader run — as an in-continuity cosmic tragedy, with Pak explicitly distinguishing it from out-of-continuity swan songs like Silver Surfer: Requiem. Marvel assembled the creative team of Pak, penciler Sumit Kumar (Web of Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood), co-artist Tiago Palma, colorist Frank D'Armata, letterer VC Joe Sabino, and cover artist Dike Ruan, with Tom Groneman serving as series editor under Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski. The series launched June 11, 2025, with Marvel openly capitalizing on the surge of Silver Surfer awareness tied to the Fantastic Four theatrical release, and the complete five issues were subsequently collected in a hardcover edition.
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- Issue #5 is the finale (fifth of five) of the Death of the Silver Surfer limited series, published October 29, 2025.
- Written by Greg Pak with interior art by Sumit Kumar and Tiago Palma; cover by Dike Ruan; colored by Frank D'Armata; lettered by VC Joe Sabino.
- The issue resolves the series' central question by confirming Kelly Koh as Marvel's new ongoing Silver Surfer in Earth-616 continuity, with the Fantastic Four's explicit endorsement.
- Kelly Koh (Major Kelly Koh) first appeared in Death of the Silver Surfer #1 (June 2025) as an agent of the Bureau of Alien Neutralization (B.A.N.) tasked with hunting Norrin Radd.
- Kelly Koh's first appearance as the Silver Surfer — receiving the Power Cosmic from Norrin Radd — occurred in the preceding issue #4; issue #5 is her first full outing as the confirmed ongoing successor.
- In issue #5, both Norrin Radd and Kelly Koh join forces against an ancient, universe-threatening force rooted in the sins of Galactus, before Norrin's fate is finalized.
- The series and its finale were timed to coincide with Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), in which Julia Garner plays Shalla-Bal as a female Silver Surfer in the MCU.
- The complete run (issues #1–5) was collected and published as the Death of the Silver Surfer hardcover (ISBN 9781302968328) by Marvel/Penguin Random House.
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