Silver Surfer heads for a vacation on the tropical island of
Kahoolawe only to find the place under attack by a pair of Ice Giants from
Asgard. After rescuing a father and son from danger’s path, SS unleashes the
Power Cosmic on the giants, knocking them out. Deducing that a dimensional rift
must have opened between Earth and Asgard, the Surfer decides to contact Thor….
Meanwhile, in a nameless Limbo in its own dimension, a
godlike villain called Millennius bemoans his exile there by the gods of
Asgard. But now he has detected an energy contrail in the cosmos which can
power his escape from his prison by means of a machine captured from an alien
enemy…
At Avengers Mansion, the Avengers (Captain America, Justice,
Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Firestar) assemble in reaction to a UFO
alert. Thor, Iron Man, and Firestar are dispatched to meet it. But they all
calm down when the see it is the Silver Surfer….
Thor and the Surfer look on their homeworlds and discover
both Asgard and Zenn-La have been destroyed. They start the perilous journey
into the past to learn what happened to Asgard but Millennius recognizes the
energy contrail he has been looking for and snatches it out of time, ending up
with the Silver Surfer and Thor in his Limbo. The two heroes are surrounded by
the villain’s globlike servitors who surround and enclose Thor and the Surfer,
rendering them unconscious….
The Silver Surfer awakens inside a huge machine which is
draining off the Power Cosmic to permit Millennius to escape his prison, then
embark on his project to save the universe. Oh and the operation will result in
the Surfer’s death….
Elsewhere, Thor is in chains and Millennius awakens him with
a bucket of water. Thor recognizes the villain’s name from Asgardian lore as a
fiend. The two fight, with Thor denouncing Millennius as a madman and murderer
while the latter defends his plan to exterminate all mortals in the universe
which, since mortals live such brief and miserable lives, would be an act of
mercy. By sheer act of will, Surfer breaks free from the massive machine but
sees the breach in the fabric of reality is still growing. He attempts to blast
it closed but that only accelerates its growth. Surfer rescues Thor from the
villain but they all race for the rift, Millennius seeking to escape, the
Surfer hoping Thor will be able to close it. The Surfer now fights Millennius;
while defending the existence of the human race, he orders his board to smash
the villain’s throat. Meanwhile, Thor closes the rift by channeling the
lifeforce that flows though every Asgardian. He then rushes to rescue SS from
the baddie. And by combining their powers they defeat Millennius. They bury him
in the center of his planet, Thor adding the blocks of his castle to seal him
in. Then they take off so they aren’t around when Mill frees himself….
Thor and Silver Surfer return to New York, vowing to be
ready when Millennius returns….
And Millennius, still exiled to his planet, vows to escape
and resume his crusade….