Marvel Comics have often been in the field of animated television, starting in 1966 with the Anthology of Marvel Super Heroes. The following year, Jana-Barbera made an animated series "Fantastic Four" and the company was turned off in the races. However, Marvel's shows were only filled with convenient success and popularity. Many young people remember the famous TV series "X-Men" since 1992, but less likely to remember the 1979 series "Fred and Barney filling out the work", or the performances "Fantastic Four" and "Ironian Man" since 1994.

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It is important to remember that the popularity of "Spider-Man" (1994) and "X-Men: Evolution" (2000) are aberrations. Most of Marvel's animated shows have historically missed. After the debut of Marvel's film universe, the pure volume of Marvel's animated shows increased exponentially, and it is now difficult to follow. Many, very animated shows, both good and bad, kind of cracks. Many are still waiting to be discovered again.

Case in point: in 1998, Larry Brody developed the cosmic adventurers of Stan Lee and Jackack Kirby, a silver surfer in a highly stylized and sharp -written show on Saturday morning, broadcast on Fox Children. The series used a combination of Cel Animation and CGI to look as much as possible as the original Jackec Kirby art style, sports thick, dark shadows and bold, sharp designed characters. The series felt classic, listening back to the boldly philosophical era of Marvel's psychedelics psychedelics 60s and 70s. There were reports of Isaac Asimov. There were complex scientific stories and a tone of weakness that was strangely appealing, and definitely more sophisticated than Marvel's stories on other shows.

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The classicism of the show can be attributed to some of the writing staff. Harlan Ellison is credited as a stories writer in an episode, as well as DC Fontana, the longtime associate of Star Trek. "Silver Surfer" had the same vibration as the early episodes of Star Trek.

For those who are not familiar with the character, the Silver Surfer was an ordinary humanoid, who was abducted by the cosmic semi-spirit eating a planet, called galacutus to be his herald. Galacutus absorbs populated planets to stay alive, and the silver surfer, who could travel thousands of times the speed, would travel forward to warn people that his boss was coming to delete them. His body was turned into a wireless, silver form and could divert energy through his body into huge quantities.

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The original Silver Surfer comics, written by Jackack Kirby, came when Marvel Comics were more melodramic and demonstrative (very "very! My power!"-speaks in style). Silver Surfer was dealing with the depth of the cosmos and was often introspective, especially when he thought of the life he lost when Galakus assimilated him. The stories "Silver Surfer" were traditionally deep and philosophical.

And who better write those types of stories in a cartoon show by Harlan Ellison and DC Fountain? Ellison, many fansbi of science may know, was the author of Stories like "I don't have a mouth and I have to scream", And "Sent, Harlequin! Said the teak." He was also the author of the classic episode "Star Trek" "The City of Forever" (April 6, 1967). It is the episode in which Kirk (William Shatner) was thrown in time in the 1930s, where she is in -run in a local woman named Edith (Anoan Collins). Kirk ultimately learns that Edith is destined to die soon and that her death, in a very touring way, will determine the outcome of World War II. Kirk must leave her to die to return history.

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Ellison came up with the story of the "Antibody" episode (April 11, 1998), in which the surfer (Paul Esembre) must perform a galacutus -saving operation, something that is ethically torn.

The deceased, the Great DC Fontana was a longtime veteran of Star Trek, starting with the original series in the 1960s, serving as editor -in -chief of the story. She also wrote ten episodes of the series, as well as an episode of "Star Trek: The Animated Series". She held the franchise for many years, continuing with "Star Trek: The Next Generation", for which she wrote the pilot episode despite four other episodes. She Was infamously deleted from the bonus From Trek's creator, Ein Bornboys. Her last credit road took place in 1993, writing the episode "Deep Space Nine" DAX (February 14, 1993).

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Her episode "Silver Surfer" was called "The War forever" (29.05.1998) and followed the surfer in the pocket dimension occupied by the powerful space warrior Adam Warlock (Oliver Becker). The surfer had to become inserted into a war involving the blue-leather aliens, Cray. Of course, he ended up helping Adam Warlock, despite the propensity of the latter for violence. It is a story of interrogating the value of war and the need for violence. These are classic things "Star Trek".

"Old Trek", of course, was still rolling high in 1998, with "Star Trek: Uprising" in theaters, both "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Deep Space Nine" hugged well. The world does not hurt for careful stories of science. However, it is strange that Silver Surfer has managed to get into the grandiosity of the infinite cosmos better than the relative soap-operations of the modern trip. If one wants a little hit of classical science of the 60s, you don't have to go beyond the time of 1998. "Silver Surfer" is currently available at Disney+.

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