He later expanded on this, recalling, "I thought, 'Jack, this time you've gone too far'". As Lee recalled in 1995, "There, in the middle of the story we had so carefully worked out, was a nut on some sort of flying surfboard". When Kirby turned in his pencil art for the story, he included a new character he and Lee had not discussed. The comic's writer-editor, Stan Lee, and its penciller and co-plotter, Jack Kirby, had, by the mid-1960s, developed a collaborative technique known as the " Marvel Method": the two would discuss story ideas, Kirby working from a brief synopsis to draw the individual scenes and plot details, with Lee finally adding the dialogue and captions. The Silver Surfer debuted as an unplanned addition to the superhero-team comic Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966).
Originally a young astronomer named Norrin Radd on the planet Zenn-La, he saved his homeworld from the planet devourer, Galactus, by serving as his herald.
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The Silver Surfer is a humanoid alien with metallic skin who can travel through space with the aid of his surfboard-like craft.
The character was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, published in 1966. The character also appears in a number of movies, television, and video game adaptations.
The Silver Surfer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.