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Stan the Man returns to write a fairly simple Silver Surfer story with cameos by dozens of characters. Surfer is having nightmares that Shalla Bal is in trouble, and Reed tells him to go rescue her.
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Meanwhile, Johnny Carson learns that aliens have contacted Earth.
Turns out, they are the titular enslavers. They capture a bunch of heroes. Surfer gets to Zenn-La and sees that the same alien race has taken his home planet prisoner. He frees them, and then frees Earth’s heroes as well.
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Pollard’s art is good, but there’s not much else to recommend this. Surfer is written in a fairly generic way—there’s no depth to his hand-wringing and none of the cosmic contemplation that made old Stan Lee Surfer stories so great.