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GALACTUS & SILVER SURFER with DAVID EDWARDS
Everything you need to know about Galactus and all of his Heralds! Including Silver Surfer
Such Epic Characters need an Epic guest and we have the Epically Epic comedian and model, Mr David Edwards.
He's never read a Marvel comic before and boy is he in for a treat. Who is Galactus? Is he a big man in drag? Are his heralds sort of his boyfriends and girlfriends? Does he wear pants? These are just some of the insightful questions we ask as we place these Cosmic entities in the Who's my Favourite Marvel Character Order!
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Reading list
Fantastic Four First Steps Special 1
164. Galactus
Fantastic four 1961 #48-50
Supervillain classics #1 1983
The Ultimates 2015 #2
165. Silver Surfer
Silver surfer #1 1968
Silver surfer #1 1982
Silver surfer #34 1990
Silver surfer 2014 #1
166. Shalla Bal
Heralds of Galactus
613. Firelord
Thor 1974 #225 (read from page 8)
765. Morg
Silver surfer #70, 71 (can skip pages 11-21) 1992
856. Red shift
Galactus the devourer 1999 #2 (just pages 7-17)
932. Stardust
Stormbreaker the saga of beta ray bill #2 2005 (can skip 8-10, 12-18)
790. Nova (Frankie )
Fantastic four #244 1982 (just pages 10-17)
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