10 Amazing Stan Lee Comics Marvel Fans Must Read

The plot of Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience will be all too familiar to those who know of the character: he comes to Earth to scout for the world-eater, Galactus, but finds the potential greatness in humanity too precious to be lost, and so he rebels against the Devourer of Worlds.

This tale, however, continues with Galactus trying to sway his herald back to his side with a gold-skin woman. She inadvertently falls in love with the Surfer which leads to heartache later. Similarly, when the Surfer tries to befriend humanity, they shun him, with their memories of him saving them having been erased. In the end, the Silver Surfer does go back to Galactus, realizing there's no escape.

This beautifully drawn book never gets the attention it deserves. While Stan Lee and Jack Kirby came together for this book, it was a story that people had read before. That doesn't detract from the fact that Lee pulled out all the stops for this story however, with the writer adding to the Surfer's subtle religious connotations and in doing so, creating one of the character's defining tales.