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Fantastic Four – The Silver Surfer and the Coming of Galactus

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  • Title: Fantastic Four: The Animated Series – The Silver Surfer and the Coming of Galactus (Part 1 and 2)
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Airing in October of 1994, the two-part episode “The Silver Surfer and the Coming of Galactus” stays close to the original story from Fantastic Four #48-50 in which the Watcher (Allan Oppenheimer) warns the Fantastic Four of a coming danger but is unable to stop the Silver Surfer (Robin Sachs) from finding Earth and summoning his master. As in the comic, after an initial skirmish with the Fantastic Four, the Surfer discovers a bit about humanity through his interactions with Alicia Masters (Pauline Lomas) while the Watcher guides Johnny Storm () to the only known weapon in the universe that could turn away Galactus (Tony Jay) and force him to spare Earth.

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Fantastic Four #48

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the first appearance of Galactus as Fantastic Four Week continues. Released at the end of 1965, Fantastic Four #48 begins with the Fantastic Four defeating Maximus, in kind of a weird disconnected story, and returning home to find the skies of New York on fire. Inside the Baxter Building, the group are met by the Watcher who is attempting to shield the planet of prying eyes from the most dangerous threat the Fantastic Four, or the Earth, have ever encountered.

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Spidey Super Stories #19

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Released 46 years ago, Throwback Tuesday takes a look back at Spidey Super Stories #19. For those who don’t remember the comic, Spidey Super Stories was geared towards younger readers that grew out of the Electric Company skits Spider-Man appeared on. As a joint venture, both Marvel Comics and the Children’s Television Workshop signed off on every issue. The stories usually featured Spider-Man teaming up with another Marvel hero and/or fighting a well-known Marvel villain (whose backstory was often featured in a single-page origin story).

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Defenders #1

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Defenders #1 comic reviewThe arrival of the new Masked Raider inside the Sanctum Sanctorum with the story of a villain of the Enclave lost in time that could alter the past prompts to use fate and create a new team of Defenders to save the timeline. The team he gets is not exactly what he expected. Welcome to the latest version of the Defenders.

Along with Strange and the Raider, the other members of the team are the Silver Surfer, the Red Harpy, and Cloud. While we get appearances from the various characters here, we don’t get much in the way of interaction (other than confusion as to being pulled out of time and space by Dr. Strange’s spell and delivered to the planet of Taa) while most of the comic centers around the Raider explaining the trouble to the good Doctor.

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