Marvel Comics Library. Silver Surfer. Vol. 1. 1968–1970

John Buscema (1927–2002) began working for Timely Comics in 1948 drawing Westerns, crime comics, and horror/suspense. He left comics for commercial art but returned to Marvel in 1966, establishing at Marvel a singular style of elegance and realism. His long list of credits includes The Silver Surfer , The Avengers , Sub-Mariner , The Fantastic Four , and numerous Conan the Barbarian stories. In 1978, he collaborated with Stan Lee on a landmark instructional book How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way .

Stan Lee (1922–2018) is known to millions as the man whose super heroes propelled Marvel to its preeminent position in the comic book industry. His cocreations include Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and hundreds of others. While the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel , he was also the Chief Creative Officer of POW! Entertainment, where he created numerous new characters and stories in areas including publishing, film, reality TV, stage, documentary, and multimedia.

Douglas Wolk is a multiple-Eisner-winning author of All of the Marvel s and Reading Comics and has written about comics and pop music for The New York Times , Time , The Washington Post , Rolling Stone , and The Believer , among others. He teaches comics history at Portland State University.

Sal Buscema is one of the most prolific comic artists in Marvel history, with long runs on titles like Incredible Hulk , The Avengers , The Defenders , and Thor . His first work at Marvel was inking The Silver Surfer . He helped launch the series The Spectacular Spider-Man in 1976 and returned to the title years later to pencil and ink a much-lauded 100-issue run. In the 1990s, he helped make Spider-Girl one of the most talked about titles of the era.