The Power of Silver Surfer
by Monk
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The Silver Surfer is one of the most powerful heroes in comics. Originally, Norrin Radd didnīt have any powers and was an ordinary habitant of the planet Zenn-La. He made a deal with the world-devourer entity called Galactus to spare his planet. So Norrin was imbued with the Power Cosmic and became the herald of Galactus.
The primary function of a herald is search nutritive worlds to satisfy the hunger of his master. So a herald need to survive the rigors of space, have senses enhanced enough for instinctively astronavigation and travel interstellar distances in seconds. A herald often needs to combat high-tech civilizations and interstellar empires that urge to defend their planets from the hunger of Galactus. So the basic powers that a being imbued with the Power Cosmic receives are godlike durability, high firepower, faster than light speed, cosmic senses and no need for food, drink, air or sleep.
But the Power Cosmic is much more than a bunch of powers. In fact, a wielder of the Power Cosmic can have any kind of power that he wants to. All he needs is enough energy, concentration, imagination and skill. The Silver is by far the most skilled herald of Galactus.
Energy usually is not a problem, all heralds storage huge amounts of energy in their bodies and are constantly replenishing it by absorbing ambient energy. Ambient energy means heat, light and every length of electromagnetic waves that are available, but primary source of energy are the omnipresent and higher energy cosmic rays. If necessary, the Silver Surfer can make the energy of other sources to came to him, and then absorb it.
The Silver Surfer has demonstrated a lot of ways of using the Power Cosmic, including matter manipulation, many kinds of energy manipulation, time manipulation, gravity manipulation, telepathic blasts, reading minds, force fields, telekinesis, interdimensional travel, phasing through matter.
Here in this website you can read my interpretation of the power of the Silver Surfer, but it also allow you to do your own interpretation. Thatīs why there are images for every power feat. But sometimes the images arenīt enough without context, thatīs why there are the author, year, issue and pages of every feat. So you can go read the story and make your own conclusions.
Another reason to show the authors is because like most characters of comics, the Silver Surfer has been written by many authors. And they have different views and portrayals of the character. If you are a fan of the Silver Surfer itīs important for you to know that the main authors are:
Stan Lee, who wrote the eighteen issues of volume 1 on late sixties and early seventies. Steve Englehart, who started volume 3 on 1987 and wrote about thirty issues. And Ron Marz who wrote almost fifty issues from volume 3 from 1991 to 1995.
Itīs also important to know that after Ron Marz left the title, the powerlevels portrayal of the Silver Surfer became higher and with less fluctuations. The responsible authors for it are Mike Lackey, DeMatteis, George Perez, Gregory Wright and Gleen Greenberg. Thatīs why there are so many feats on year 1996. Actually there are many feats that arenīt listed here because they became too casual to get mentioned.
I also created two grades to help me classifying the feats, they are Impressiveness an Credibility.
Impressiveness is a grade to the feat. Varies from 1 to 5. 5 is a very impressive feat and 1 is ordinary one. The grades are my personal opnion, you can disagree with them, but keep it to you. Impressiveness is only to rank the feat.
Credibility is a grade to the validity of the feat. 5 is feat that is almost impossible to argue and 1 is very doubtful one. Some factors like if the feat is a character claimed something, the title it was published. Again it's my humble opinion, no need to argue with that. I created it to don't have exclude some feats that most people would argue.
