Silver Surfer was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in perhaps the best example of the 'Marvel Method', whereby an artist would lay out an entire comic with Lee's guidance and it would be up to him to fill in the dialogue from the panels given. One day, in a script for the Fantastic Four, Kirby had included what Lee later referred to as "some nut with a surfboard", and - low and behold - the Silver Surfer was born.
The Surfer became one of Lee's favourite ever characters, one who has starred in some truly brilliant stories over the years, and though you never quite know what you're going to get with a Silver Surfer book, you can guarantee the hero will be up to something truly powerful.
Introduced first as Galactus' Herald (a job title thrust upon the character in order to save his planet from getting eaten by the Devourer of Worlds), the Surfer earned his freedom and travelled the cosmos helping those in need. Sometimes that 'help' meant fighting a given enemy, and with the Power Cosmic at his side, there's scarcely an enemy out there who could give him trouble.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
