Continuing with our gallery of SILVER SURFER covers, we take up where we left off last time, which was SS #7. That means we start this little session with #8 through #12, with #13 to #18 still to come in the next post on this subject. Hope you'll join us then, but in the meantime enjoy these five covers by the mighty JOHN BUSCEMA.
Although Big John only drew the first seventeen issues in the series, they are clearly superior to the eighteenth and last issue illustrated by JACK KIRBY, which was intended to be the first in a new direction for the title. Clearly, then, even with an artist of the calibre of John Buscema on board, sales of the comic were not considered to be as good as they could have been, hence the change in approach. I can only speculate that the Kirby last issue did even worse in sales, hence the reason why the planned 'Savage Silver Surfer' plotline never materialised. After all, why flog a dead horse?
More on this in an upcoming post. Don't miss it!
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