@cosmic_lantern: I leave for a while and see you have engaged in quite a bit of wishful thinking. So, in your fantasy of how a SA Superman/Surfer battle would go, Surfer will initiate all of those tactics while Kal just conviently stands there---and just ALLOWS all that to happen. For some unknown reason, he WON'T use his FTL combat speed and strength enough to move planets to pummel the Surfer senseless-weaker beings like the Hulk, Thor, the Thing,(even Spider-Man once knocked the Surfer on his a$$) have done so, so Supes CERTAINLY could; or he WON'T vibrate his body to render any attack Radd initiates moot (like Kal's preN52 counterpart did to Doomsday in their third encounter) and then, since as per OP Kal is bloodlusted, vibrate his hands into Radd's body, solidify, and rip the sentinel of the spaceways apart and reduce him to cosmic ash (and if you say "SA Supes didn't vibrate!" he actually did; off the top of my head I can remember two incidents, when he masqueraded as mob enforcer "Keeper Carnes" to secretly aid Batman in a "Brave and the Bold" issue, and when he vibrated to the frequency of a piece of metal left by a Manhunter in order to track that opponent down in a Justice League comic-I'll look up the issue numbers later); or Supes won't, with a combination of his X-ray and heat vision, zero in on whatever passes for Surfer's brain and give him a cosmic lobotomy. Oh, no, Supes won't do all those things; he'll just stand there and let Norrin do whatever he wants because---well, just BECAUSE, I guess.
As I was saying: in a tough, TOUGH battle, Silver Age Superman takes down Surfer, goes on to aid his partners, and the Marvel group goes down. Translation: TEAM SUPERMAN WINS.
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