The Silver Surfer #35

[cyberghostface]

"I consider [Thanos] to be an anti-hero…because he’s been the good guy as often as he’s been the bad guy in the stories. So I don’t consider him a villain. But because he’s not in that hero category I always found him more fascinating to write. I didn’t have to get restricted on where he would go and how he would react to things. I could make him not as appealing as I would have to make him if he were a hero. He could go off on his own little dark ways and it would still make perfect sense." -- Jim Starlin

Comments

[bruinsfan]

Hmmm, at that point in comics history should Thanos have been able to ignore the Silver Surfer as a threat? In more recent years as an unkillable incarnation of Death I could see it, but back then I thought he was just about on an even playing field with the Surfer (or Thor).

[broblawsky]

I think the chair, specifically, is what prevents Surfer from harming Thanos. The force field it generates is pretty explicitly unbreakable by all but the mightiest cosmic beings.