The Silver Surfer #1

The opener of Marvel's two-issue limited series "Parable," this 1988 release pairs Stan Lee with the visionary Moebius — a creative team that feels genuinely once-in-a-generation. Moebius's cover says everything: the immense, brooding face of Galactus dominates the foreground in sweeping purples and magentas, while the Silver Surfer stands small but resolute atop his board in the background, the scale between them making the tension palpable without a single word. At just one dollar, this was an ambitious fusion of cosmic Marvel mythology and European comics artistry that still catches the eye decades later.