May 19, 2018 - Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik’s classic creation. Howard the Duck is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by Willard Huyck and starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, and Tim Robbins.Based on the Marvel comic book of the same name, the film was produced by Gloria Katz and written by Huyck and Katz, with George Lucas as executive producer.

The less said about the code-exempt magazine the better. Great book for Howard the Duck fans who were put off by the whole "Duck" part of his character.

Howard the Duck was Marvel's first big cult hit. So.

Val Mayerick was the artist. See more ideas about Howard the duck, Duck, Marvel comics. He debuted in 1973 in one of Gerber's bizarre storylines in the Man-Thing series, inexplicably walking out of the underbrush (above). Things change however after Beverly lands a high paying job, only to learn that it's run by her ex-husband and Howard's arch nemesis Dr. Bong, and a devious plot is uncovered. Man-thing was a mindless swamp creature who couldn't talk or think or had any personality whatsoever. Gerber is my favorite writer to work in the comics factory system, ever, period, full stop. Howard the Duck has been tried sans-Gerber many times over the years.

Giving Gerber complete freedom to do what he wants, this relaunch of Howard the Duck finds our cigar chomping hero and his human girlfriend Beverly down and out and living near a junkyard. Of course, I'm a little biased. I read it years ago, but my memory is that I was a little disappointed to put it mildly. Steve Gerber gets a chance to bring his one great Marvel character that he created back to life and for most of the run turns him into a … The 80s film tanked, as did the value of the comic books with it. Howard is een slechtgehumeurde, antropomorfe eend die verschillende avonturen beleeft. Howard the Duck is een fictief personage dat voorkomt in de strips van Marvel Comics.Hij verscheen voor het eerst in Adventure into Fear #19 (december 1973) en werd bedacht door Steve Gerber (achtergrondverhaal) en Val Mayerik (uiterlijk). As I said in that thread, I strongly sympathize with Steve Gerber's attempts to gain some measure of control over the characters he created while working for Marvel, including Howard the Duck and Omega the Unknown. Steve Gerber, who created Howard the Duck, the dour, dyspeptic, utterly disagreeable and therefore wildly popular comic-book hero of the 1970s, died on Sunday in Las Vegas.