The Silver Surfer design was actually all Kirby! The lore is that Stan received the FF pages in from Jack to dialogue, and there was this random bald dude on a surf board that they’d never discussed and Stan hadn’t put in the “Marvel style” plot.
Stan of course took it & ran with it. I seem to recall Stan’s philosophical take might not have been quite what Kirby was envisioning and was actually a source of tension, which of course led Buscema to be the artist on that first classic solo series.
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#comics When you read Silver Surfer volume 1, issue 18, there is a dramatic difference in the "voice" of Silver Surfer. This is the one issue of the original volume that Kirby actually penciled. With the Marvel method, Stan Lee likely had to adapt the story to what the artist put on the page, so in this issue, we probably get a vision closer to what Kirby imagined than what Lee had done in the previous issues of the Silver Surfer #comics.
that's interesting, I hadn't heard that