The Herald

The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero and was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. He first appeared in The Fantastic Four #48 (1966). The Surfer was originally Norrin Radd, a young astronomer of the planet Zenn-La. He agreed to serve as a herald for the alien Galactus to save Zenn-La from the planet-consuming super being. Galactus granted Norrin Radd enormous cosmic powers, a silvery appearance and a surfboard-like vehicle, all of which modeled after a childhood fantasy of Radd's. Thereafter, he roamed the cosmos, searching for new planets for Galactus to consume until, after an encounter with Earth's Fantastic Four, he betrayed Galactus, who doomed the Surfer to exile on Earth. The Silver Surfer possesses vast power known as the "Power Cosmic," gained when Galactus restructured his former body. He has the ability to channel ambient cosmic energy into his body at will, and expel it violently as concussive force or gently as a means to restructure molecules according to his mental design. He can generate beams of energy with sufficient destructive force to annihilate a planet or generate such subtle amounts of energy to restructure the molecules of the natural pigments within a plant to change its color. The Surfer can rearrange the molecules of matter to create other configurations, and can transmute elements. While he can use his power to revitalize life energies and heal the wounded, he cannot create life or return the dead to the living. Despite these vast powers, the Surfer is not completely unstoppable. He has in the past been wounded by vastly powerful forms of magic and by other users of the Power Cosmic, such as Galactus and his other heralds. He is not immune to psionics or other forms of mental attack or manipulation, although his willpower and spiritual strength provide him with a great deal of resistance to mind control. Bottom Line...HE FLYS AROUND ON A SILVER SURFBOARD that travels 99% the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)! How much wax does that take?