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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published June 1991
Cover Price 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Craig Anderson; John Lewandowski (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Notes Silver foil embossed cardstock cover.

Cover Details

Characters the Silver Surfer; Thanos
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Lim (signed)
Inks Tom Christopher (signed)
Notes Silver foil embossed cardstock cover.

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters the Silver Surfer; Thanos
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Lim (signed)
Inks Tom Christopher (signed)
Notes Second printing with the foil Silver Surfer having black highlights.

40 page The Silver Surfer story "Deeply Buried Secrets!"

Characters Galactus (flashback); Jartran Radd (the Silver Surfer's father, flashback); Shalla Bal (flashback); the Silver Surfer; Thanos; CAMEOS (all in one panel, in flashback): Adam Warlock; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Champion; Drax the Destroyer; Dr. Doom; Ego; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch; the Invisible Woman; Mr. Fantastic; the Thing]; Firelord; the Gardener; the Grand Master; the In-Betweener; Mantis; Mephisto; Nova [Frankie Raye]; Runner; Starfox; the Stranger; the Super-Skrull; Thor
Synopsis Armed with the power of the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos resurrects his old stone form and probes the Silver Surfer for secrets from his past; The Surfer relives part of his old life as Norrin Radd on Zenn-La including the fall and suicide of his father; The Surfer blasts Thanos' form to dust but not before he realizes that the universe is in terrible trouble; Surfer crashes to earth and lands in Dr. Strange's sanctum.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Starlin
Pencils Ron Lim
Inks Tom Christopher
Colors Tom Vincent
Letters Ken Bruzenak
Notes Continued in The Infinity Gauntlet #1.
Reprinted in Silver Surfer (Play Press, 1989 series) #42 [Italy]

1 page letters page "The Cosmic Pipeline"

Script various
Letters typeset

1 page 3 Musketeers Adventure! advertisement "Big On Chocolate!" [No. 5 in a series]

Genre adventure
Notes Inside back cover. Comics ad for the 3 Musketeers chocolate bar from Mars Incorporated.