I never knew those existed.

Thanks MDG !

It depends on what we accept as being a true story or not.

In the comics I actually read, they were briefly reunited in the Silver Surfer one-shot by Stan Lee, John Byrne and Tom Palmer in the early '80s, but separated again immediately : she had been living in Latveria with a false memory, a victim of one of Mephisto's ploys. Norrin Radd sent her back to their planet Zenn-La, bearing enough of his cosmic power to revive the entire world (whose life force had been eaten by Galactus during Norrin's exile).

Because of her role in resuscitating Zenn-La, Shalla-Bal was made the planet's ruler, and so when she and Norrin Radd next met (after he finally broke free of the barrier on Earth), she had too many responsibilities to entertain the idea of a life with him. Bummer. This caused the two to grow more distant.

According to the interwebs, the two of them got back together after the Surfer rescued the citizens of Zenn-La and Shalla-Bal from bad guys called the Enslavers, but Shalla-Bal died soon thereafter. The Surfer brought her back to the living in a Silver Surfer/Warlock miniseries, but they decided to stay apart after that. She then fell in love with Norrin Radd's own brother, but that didn't matter anyway since a later retcon stated that Shalla-Bal and Zenn-La had been destroyed in 1947 by a villain called The Other and that the planet Norring had visited recently was but an elaborate illusion created by Galactus.

So I guess the answer to your question is "no".



Now let's play "punch holes in the retcons!"

- How does it make sense for Mephisto to abduct an illusion to torture the Surfer? He just could have created his own. Or else Galactus's Shalla-Bal was one heck of an illusion. How do you brainwash an illusion anyway?

- If Zenn-La was an illusion since 1947, why did Galactus eat it in the '70s?

- If the Surfer can energize someone so they can revive whole planets, why doesn't he do it every time Galactus devastates a world?

- Since Warlock had the soul gem on when he retrieved Shalla-Bal's soul from Mephisto's realm, how the heck didn't he notice that she was a fake? I would have thought that when it comes to souls, an infinity gem would be more powerful than Galactus's power of deception.

- How does a dead illusion end up in hell?

- Why, oh why do comics keep making these ridiculous decisions???


But let's take heart : if Brian Bendis ever writes the Silver Surfer, Shalla-Bal will be there again. She will never have died, and will even be revealed to be a photojournalist from New Jersey who one day got aboard a flying saucer by accident; when the Surfer met her on Zenn-La she had found a job there as a Galactic Times correspondant.

I think I've asked before, but I've lost the answer. Anyone know if there is a single comic reprint of Incredible Hulk #340? I'd rather have a single issue than buy a TPB that contains it since I have the whole Gray Hulk saga anyway. Just wanting it for when I get to it on my review thread. I checked the Marvel Milestone Edition series but it wasn't in that.

You just want to read it for review? Maybe the trade at a library? Or comixology is always a cheap option; the issue should be $2 and they have half price sales about twice a year.

So I had no idea until today that Don Glut is actually better known for the amateur films he made than for his work in comics. Some of them sound kind of impressive, and I'm especially impressed that he got Glenn Strange to reprise his role as the Frankenstein monster. The films are available as a collection on Amazon, and I'm thinking of getting them. Has anyone seen any of these? Are they worth it?

I decided to go ahead and order it. The amazon reviews were promising.

I have a question about DC's Shazam/Captain Marvel. I know the story about how the rights to the name had lapsed and Marvel swooped in and created their own Captain Marvel and that is why DC's comic book was called Shazam!

But I don't think DC's CM is called Shazam in the DC stories. How come Marvel's ownership of the name Captain Marvel only seems to apply to the title of the DC book?