The Silver Surfer #3
In "The Power and the Prize!", Stan Lee and Gene Colan deliver a chilling tale of identity and deception, where a man’s discovery of a crashed alien ship sets off a chain of unsettling revelations. When he tries to warn the Space Agency, the confrontation with Professor Crater takes a shocking turn—only to reveal that the real mystery lies in the language of the alien’s log, and the man himself may be the one who’s been hiding in plain sight. The story’s tension builds with Paul Reinman’s inks, Bill Everett’s colors, and Sam Rosen’s crisp lettering, all framed by John Buscema’s dynamic cover and Joe Sinnott’s sharp inks.
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A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught.
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