Silver Surfer: Ghost Light - by John Jennings (Paperback)

About the Book

"A ghost from the past, returned to haunt Norrin Radd! Toni Brooks and her family have moved into the quiet town of Sweetwater. But nothing is quite what it seems with their new home. What mystery did Toni and her family unravel that would summon the Sentinel of the Spaceways, the Silver Surfer?! The Surfer thought he buried his friend, the human named Al Harper, years ago - but he thought wrong! Can the Surfer save Al from succumbing to his newfound cosmic abilities? And who - or what - transformed Al into the otherworldly Ghost Light? Eisner Award winner John Jennings and acclaimed artist Valentine De Landro introduce a new Marvel super hero, 54 years in the making! But can even two cosmic powerhouses save the town of Sweetwater?!"---Amazon.com.

Book Synopsis

A ghost from the past, returned to haunt Norrin Radd! Toni Brooks and her family have moved into the quiet town of Sweetwater. But nothing is quite what it seems with their new home. What mystery did Toni and her family unravel that would summon the Sentinel of the Spaceways, the Silver Surfer?! The Surfer thought he buried his friend, the human named Al Harper, years ago - but he thought wrong! Can the Surfer save Al from succumbing to his newfound cosmic abilities? And who - or what - transformed Al into the otherworldly Ghost Light? Eisner Award winner John Jennings and acclaimed artist Valentine De Landro introduce a new Marvel super hero, 54 years in the making! But can even two cosmic powerhouses save the town of Sweetwater?! Collecting SILVER SURFER: GHOST LIGHT #1-5.

About the Author

John Jennings is an Eisner Award-winning professor, author, and graphic novelist. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers).

Valentine De Landro has been working in the comic book industry since 2000 on titles as diverse as Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz, Devil's Due Publishing's G.I. Joe Declassified and G.I. Joe Special Missions, and Image's Noble Causes. Before joining Peter David on X-Factor, his work for Marvel included Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Marvel Knights 4 and Marvel Age Spider-Man.