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Cover: John Buscema & Joe Sinnott

The Silver Surfer #3

Dec 1968 · Marvel · 0.25 USD
📊 ~36,075 copies sold its debut month
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“The Power and the Prize!”
★ 1st appearance — Mephisto

In "The Power and the Prize!", Stan Lee and Gene Colan deliver a chilling tale of identity and deception, where a man’s discovery of a crashed alien ship sets off a chain of unsettling revelations. When he tries to warn the Space Agency, the confrontation with Professor Crater takes a shocking turn—only to reveal that the real mystery lies in the language of the alien’s log, and the man himself may be the one who’s been hiding in plain sight. The story’s tension builds with Paul Reinman’s inks, Bill Everett’s colors, and Sam Rosen’s crisp lettering, all framed by John Buscema’s dynamic cover and Joe Sinnott’s sharp inks.

writer Stan Lee · artist Gene Colan · inker Paul Reinman · colorist Bill Everett · letterer Sam Rosen · cover John Buscema, Joe Sinnott

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee
artist Gene Colan
colorist Bill Everett
letterer Sam Rosen
cover pencils John Buscema
cover inks Joe Sinnott

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A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught.

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