| Issue | #3 |
| Published | December 1968 |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Characters | Silver Surfer; Mephisto; Shalla Bal; Demons |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | John Buscema |
| Inks | John Buscema ?; Joe Sinnott ? |
| Notes | Possible Sinnott cover inker credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (1990); in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #1; in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1; in Sensational Spider-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #41 (December 2007); in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #5; in Silver Surfer (Play Press, 1989 series) #25 |
| Characters | FEATURE: Silver Surfer; GUEST: Shalla Bal; VILLAINS: Mephisto (1st); Demons |
| Synopsis | Mephisto captures Shalla Bal and tries to tempt the Surfer into joining him by using his one true love as bait. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | John Buscema |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Reprinted | in Bring on the Bad Guys: Origins of Marvel Comics Villains (Simon and Schuster, 1976 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (1990); in Essential Silver Surfer (Marvel, 2001 series) #1; in Silver Surfer Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1; in Sensational Spider-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #41 (December 2007) [pp. 8-20]; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #4 [part 1]; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #5 [part 2]; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #6 [part 3] |
| Characters | Watcher (narrator); Professor Crater |
| Synopsis | A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Gene Colan |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | A retelling of "Why Won't They Believe Me?" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #7 (December 1961). |
| Reprinted | in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #31 (August 1975) |