Silver Surfer #138

Issue #138 of Marvel's long-running Silver Surfer series brings together an striking trio on Bernard Chang and Hilary Barta's cover: a darkened, crouching Silver Surfer dominates the foreground, while a glowing figure rises from a burst of blinding light behind him, and a looming, snarling Thing fills the upper background against a fiery orange sky. The "Guest-Starring: The Thing" banner makes this team-up official, and the tension radiating across the image — that contrast between the Surfer's shadowed form and the radiant energy erupting behind him — sets up DeMatteis, Cruz, and Ryan's story, "The Choice," with real dramatic weight. A compelling April 1998 chapter that fans of cosmic Marvel won't want to skip.