I don't know .... but the example in question is well very questionable The planet SS 'blasted' out was no that much bigger than the globe on top of the Daily planet in metropolis.
The Surfer's strength is mighty but one of his least-used assests, he has so many powers. He could start by turning BA's suit into clown jammies; Adam will grind his teeth and ask to be excused till he can change into something manly!
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Black Adam is just outclassed in this one. Look at it this way: Black Adam's powers come from EARTHLY gods while SS got a portion of Galactus' COSMIC power. SS is just in a different league.
Black Adam just doesn't have the offensive abilities to hurt SS.
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Nah you misunderstood what i originally said. Using the vanishing point method one can easily construct a 3D image on a 2D surface e.g. piece of paper. You can even do it. Draw Two squares, One behind the other, and then draw lines between them. One gets a 3D image. Comic book artists do it all the time Thats why comic book characters arms are in proportion to their bodies.
You can also use this method get a perspective of scale. Using this method i was able to find out how small the 'Planet' or small rock was.
Naturally...any writer would know he doesn't have the power to win in that situation, so they keep him away from it!
Just like he better stay clear of Norrid!
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Well Norrin was able to push around God Cable in their fight when they were locked up and he was certainly cranking out some power that could augment his strength ridiculuosly beyond class 100........................
yet black adam has magic on his side that can hurt surfer, the lightning And he can do the magic fist thing he did to SBP, and supes said he once was gonna punch adam so hard he could have broken the moon in half with that punch.