When the Fantastic Four were successful in turning away the awesome Galactus, they did it with the help of his turncoat herald the Silver Surfer. The Surfer was rebuked by his master by having his space-spanning powers curtailed and being isolated on the Earth. So in between the appearances of the mighty Galactus we are treated to the misadventures of the Surfer on Earth.
His first battle comes against the Thing in Fantastic Four #55 when the Surfer pays a little too much attention to Ben Grimm's main squeeze Alicia Masters. The two battle around in classic Marvel style before making amends.
When the Surfer next appears in Fantastic Four #57, he is traveling the globe investigating the human race and finding that much of the population is a little less noble than one would ideally hope.
Surprisingly naive he falls into the clutches of arch-fiend Doctor Doom who uses guile to catch the Surfer off guard and technology to steal his cosmic powers. The Surfer is imprisoned in Doom's castle in Latveria.
Doom then makes the most of his new powers and flies across the planet raising all kinds of hell. The FF learn of this new menace but are at first at a loss at how to contend with their enemy's new-found might.
While Doctor Doom revels in his powers and pranks the planet, the Inhumans escape the Great Refuge when Black Bolt finally speaks.
The menace of the cosmic Doom is finally put to rest when Reed Richards cooks up a gadget which is enlarged by the military, and which tricks the bad Doctor into heading into space and cracking his noggin against the barrier that Galactus had set up to keep the Surfer on Earth. Doom's fate is uncertain but the cosmic might returns to the Silver Surfer and he takes his leave of Latveria.
We have seen that the Silver Surfer has been buffeted by his encounters with mankind. He has high hopes when he abandoned his role as herald for Galactus, but he might be regretting his decision. But he will try to help still as we'll see next time.
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