Silver Surfer (Vol. 3) Issue #46 Pg 18 (ft Drax, Gamora)

Great Drax!

Drax and Gamora make a great one-two punch on this action packed page.

Drax won't call Gamora a silly woman anymore after this fight!! Beautiful piece for your collection!!

Very cool page, Ian! Hard to believe only their second time together. Congrats!

Hey Rick. Your comment sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Unlike most of my other Guardians of the Galaxy comic art, I had not fully skimmed every issue due to being busier than usual. By skimming, I mean opening each issue to verify appearances.

I recently did a quick skim of Gamora’s reading order and found that Drax and Gamora both appear in Warlock #10. There is also a possible appearance of Drax as a Moondragon thought image in Avengers Annual #7, though it is minimal and not clearly defined. The Complete Marvel Reading Order seems to miss these appearances, likely because Warlock #10 is primarily a Thanos origin story and the Avengers Annual 7 appearance is only a thought projection with, at most, a small head image.

In both issues, Drax and Gamora are not on the same page, so they are not crossing paths. In Warlock #15, there is only one page where they appear together. Drax is shown blurred on a monitor screen as he attacks Gamora, and the interaction lasts a single page. Beyond that, I could not find any other shared pages.

This page is the fourth page in Silver Surfer #46 featuring both characters and, as far as I can tell, only the fifth page in total where Drax and Gamora appear together on a single page across all of comic history. Flipping through the comics always turns up something new.

This is one of the earliest pages I could realistically find showing them together. Since my collection prior to Thanos #8 is meant to represent how the team came together, this page works about as well as possible for visually showing that process. Drax and Gamora are the only two main Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 2/ MCU) characters (Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot, Rocket Raccoon), who met prior to the Annihilation series, and this appearance is very close to where they first intersect in the comics. For the rest of the team, the collection already captures their earliest meeting issues with Star-Lord, so it's just one more piece of history for the team I collect.

Thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole lol. I look forward to the next time we can meet up and maybe I will find you a Captain America rabbit hole to research.

Some nice action here, Ian! Cool pickup!

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Pressure: Guarding Galaxy
Pressing down on you, Woman asked for
Under pressure Drax burns a building down
Splits the family in two
Puts people on streets

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That's OK

That's Gamorra of knowing
What this girl is about
Watching some good ink screaming
"Fight this out!"

Tomorrow gets me Surfer
Pressure on people, Marvel on streak

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OK

Great action page! Congrats on gettign your Gamora, though it's the 3 great Drax images that I like best about the page myself!

I love Gamora pages and an early appearance of her without fishnet attire and I wonder when that started by the way ! Time for more research I guess Ian,lol.

Lol, you know me all too well. Looks like I have another adventure ahead of me. I absolutely love this stuff.

Kick ass Gamora page!

Dynamic stuf!  Cool seeing these 2 go at it, in their classic looks.  Congrats!