OK, for those who were reading Marvel Comics at the time, the serious question was: Was Silver Surfer a very popular character in the mid-90s?
I know he was carrying his own ongoing champion at the time – according to comics.org, Silver Surfers Launched in 1987 and lasted until 1998, it operated 146 questions, but when I thought of popular Marvel characters from the 90s, I tend to think of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Punisher and Ghost Rider, not Northon Norrin Radd.
Is he really one of their top characters, or is he just overrepresented in these crossovers, a miracle character that involves all kinds of creators just see members of the roster suitable for outstanding competitions again and again?
Anyway, the character returns to S’s spotlightIlver Surfers/Superman #1a special special program was published only six months later DC and Marvel The mini series is wrapped; apparently, the event series isn’t meant to be any climax or climax for the publisher’s 1990s crossovers, as they will no longer be reduced for a few years. (That means there are more posts in this series, of course).
This time, the creative team will include the popular and talented George Perez, who succumbed to script only, without the art hand, and the prolific Ron Lim Silver Surfers Comics, not to mention many other titles from Marvel. (He also painted Superman at that time, but not at all length.)
Ultimately, the creative team is veteran Inker Terry Austin, whose name is not obscured, as you can see above. (Neither colorist Tom Smith.)
Their Silver Surfers/Superman story real It seems to be at the Little People Conference in the Works; while Superman and Surfers do have several things, the villain of this story reaches a similar niche in each publisher’s respective universe. In fact, a very powerful case can make one’s portrayal based on another.
Although their exact nature and power are somewhat different – sensitivity is the small power of the fifth dimension, seemingly infinite magical power, and the impossible man is cheered by the planet and possesses extraordinary shape deformation ability, which are all small pranks The storied, and the stories featuring them are more comedic in nature, providing a temporary breath from the standard and serious superhero fare.
So the story is called “Pop!” In fact, it’s more like Mr. Mxyzptlk/Impossible Man Crossover than Superman/Silver Surfer.
It’s so bad that if we could really call them, it was so obviously placed on the encirclement cover of the book because it ruined their existence and consumed it What’s going on? The melodrama our heroes experience at the beginning of the story when they find themselves in a strange, even impossible environment.
After struggling with Soldier K, he faces a stronger enemy: Super Scruel!
Meanwhile, Silver Surfer is investigating the mysterious planet in Deep Space when he also disappeared into “pop” and reappeared in the metropolis where he found something was wrong. Not only is everyone afraid of him and asking “Superman” to save them, but his power doesn’t seem very correct, and when he tries to escape from space he bumps into and smashes some kind of glass barrier.
Superman finally figured out what happened, or at least think He did do it- he yelled in big red letters and slammed the super vibrator. ”The game is over, little dear!“
It turns out that he has a wrong alien prank, because Super Skiruel is indeed the impossible man in disguise, not mxyzptlk. Then, the Impossible man explained this to Superman: He met Mr. Mxyzptlk (he has always called “mixed kimchi”)Dimensional interface“He walked through when it popped up. They opened it and asked various challenges that they would exchange.
MXY is not completely fair, however, leading him and the impossible man to fight each other in an interesting four-page sequence, each of them playing the hero’s appearance from their respective universes, with only color codes, so the green and purple Marvel characters are with Orange and purple DC characters fight. This gives us a series of weird panels like Thanos slams Plastic Man and Wonder Woman, blocking Wolverine’s claws with bracelets, etc.
Ultimately, thanks to the deception of the Impossible and some similar quick thinking of our heroes, these four ended up entering the same place at the same time, and MXY took the upper hand, joining his power with the power of the Impossible Man and put the hero back to their homeland.
By the way, this is another crossover, i.e. DC and Miracle characters are clear inhabitants of two independent universes, and only the extraordinary power of the villain pierces the boundary between the DC and Marvel Universes makes them crossover Become possible. Maybe it’s worth mentioning? At some point, you can DC and Marvel The name was abandoned by the impossible man: “Mixed kimchi, I found it to be spent Both He explained to Superman that our ability to merge is to switch between you and surfers, neither of us is Right to use after all. ”
Next step: 1997 Batman and Captain America #1
