Silver Surfer returns to Earth and heads to Avengers Mansion. She-Hulk, not recognizing him (really?), challenges him and punches his face. It does nothing. Captain America appears and scolds Shulkie, sending her to review the Associates File. Meanwhile, SS tells Cap he is researching Thanos and brings the news that the villain is once more among the living and is up to some nefarious plan to wipe out half the universe. Cap and his guest review the Thanos file, bringing the reader up to date on his career; Cap suggests SS go to Titan to talk to Mentor if he needs more info…
As the Silver Surfer heads toward Titan he is intercepted by the Impossible Man who gets his attention by hitting him in the face with a pie that sends him crashing into the dust of Mars. Impy is there to advise SS on the best way to defeat his enemy Thanos, because since Thanos is even more humorless and boring than SS he can’t possibly hope to defeat him on those terms. So Impy’s advice (in song and dance) is “be a clown,” use humor the throw his foe off-balance. The irritated Surfer yells at him to knock it off which causes Impy to keel over and die. Surfer panics and tries to revive him—and it was just a set-up to give him a big Bugs Bunny kiss. As Impy turns Charlie Chaplin and Groucho to hammer his point home, overwhelming him in a green tsunami and shooting him out of a cannon—the Surfer finally gets fed up and explodes in wrath. He quickly apologizes and promises to lighten up; Impy is delighted and lets SS hit him with a magic pie before he takes off. The Silver Surfer sees that his visitor had a point—the one on top of his head—and wanders off wondering if he just made a joke….