Tagged: Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four Takes On Marvel Zombies!

bp-28-cov-6499569Well, here’s a crossover for you. According to a Marvel press release:

The New Fantastic Four (Black Panther, Storm, Human Torch and The Thing) have faced Galactus and the Silver Surfer, but now they face an even larger threat in Black Panther #28: The Marvel Zombies! Imbued with the power of Galactus from their recent tussle – they say he tasted like chicken – the Marvel Zombies are intent on devouring the Skrull home planet. Our heroes have two problems: they’ve landed on that same planet…and they’re in an alternate dimension with no way home! Writer Reginald Hudlin and artist Francis Portela invite you to jumponboard for the beginning of the latest New Fantastic Four adventure, as T’Challa confronts an enemy even he may not be able to defeat!

The story was written by Reginald Hudlin, penciled by Francis Portela with a cover by Marvel Zombies‘ Arthur Suydam and goes on sale at the end of this month. Sound to me like a fun story, the sort we haven’t seen too much of in superhero comics lately.

Artwork copyright 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Illegal Surfer coins tarnished

Remember when I expressed surprise about the Silver Surfer quarters being retouched by the Franklin Mint, opining "one would assume the US Mint rather exempt from messing with our legal tender just to hawk a film" by 20th Century Fox?

Turns out I was right.  According to MSNBC, the mint "said in a news release Friday that it learned of the promotional quarter this week and advised the studio and The Franklin Mint they were breaking the law. It is illegal to turn a coin into an advertising vehicle, and violators can face a fine."

The Franklin folks insist "putting the character on the coin didn’t alter the integrity of the coin," and say they didn’t mean to break the law.  Isn’t that the Monica Goodling defense?

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Surfing in silver, two bits

silver_t-1958912The US Post Office has certainly stooped to movie promotions before, but one would assume the US Mint rather exempt from messing with our legal tender just to hawk a film.

One would be wrong.

The movie studio producing Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 20th Century Fox, has cut a deal with The Franklin Mint and, apparently, the US government to foist a limited edition of 40,000 "Silver Surfer" US quarters that used to be 2005 CA state quarters but which have been dolled up "color enhanced" by the Franklin folk.  Not only that, consumers are urged to use the quarters not to pay for stuff or even collect, but to win valuable prizes at Fox’s promotion site.

The quarters go into circulation today.

Fantasticar photos

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The Car Connection has pictures of the Fantastic Four’s new car from their upcoming movie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Although no one explains how they get through Manhattan’s traffic, the Fantasticar has a HEMI that allegedly will let them go at 550 miles per hour. 

Chrysler Group chief stylist Trevor Creed participated in the car’s design, with Tim Flattery. According to the New York Daily News, the car can break into three sections and travel at 30,000 feet.

Which might be high enough to reach the head of a certain planet eater.