The Silver Surfer 1968 #8 - 5.5 - $38.00

Mephisto calls up the ghost of the Flying Dutchman to take on the Surfer.

On-sale date from 1969 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.

• Introducing: The Ghost! - Adkins cover inker credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. Original indexer credited Marie Severin.
• - Inside front cover. Ad for various mail order novelty items from Johnson Smith & Co.
• Now Strikes the Ghost! - Series begins a regular page count and monthly publication. In the letters page of Sub-Mariner #19 Roy Thomas notes that Bill Everett was colorist for "recent issues" of the Silver Surfer.
• - Advertisement for Baseball game from Strat-O-Matic Game Co. located between story pages 3 and 4.
• - Includes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist. Between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Ad for sales people for greeting cards. Between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Ad for a weight-gain drink between story pages 9 and 10.
• - Ad for Matchbox home display units, on top half of page between story pages 15 and 16.
• - Thumbnail ads for stamps and novelty items, on lower half of page between story pages 15 and 16.
• Shop by Mail - Thumbnail ads for a variety of products including stamps, novelty items, and back-issue comic books, located between story pages 18 and 19.
• - House ad for Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #69 and Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #14. Located on top half of page.
• - Advertisement for Spider-Man and Thor plastic pillows for $1.50 each and the Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit for $1.00 each, located on bottom half of page.
• - Advertisement to sell Grit magazine from Grit Publishing Co, located on top half of page.
• - Ad, with order coupon, for karate books and paraphernalia from Precise Publications, located on lower half of page.
• - Letters from Gabriel Barbeau, J. Scott Stewart, Alan Brennert, Jerry Slawych, James R. Jonas. Includes ?Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom?.
• - Ad for the Famous Artists School.
• - Inside back cover. Ad for the kit-a-month program from the American Basic Science Club, Inc.
• - Back cover. Ad to earn money by selling greeting cards.