Long before the name “Silver Surfer” was adopted as the Web’s favourite nickname for elderly Internauts, this alien superhero graced the pages of Marvel Comics, first appearing in the Fantastic Four issue #48 in March 1966. Of course, the Silver Surfer never actually required anything as ordinary as waves in the ocean to surf, when with his cosmically powered flying surfboard-like spacecraft he could surf the universe faster than the speed of light!
Before taking a brief blogging break in August I wanted to leave you with a vintage action figure with a summery feel, so who better than the Surfer here as he appeared in this Toy Biz edition from 1992? Whilst surfing may not yet be an Olympic discipline, with the recent inclusion of snowboarding in the Winter Games maybe we’ll see surfing in the Summer Games one of these quadrennials!