From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim
Newsgroups: net.comics
Title: Re: duck!
Article-I.D.: unc.5031
Posted: Wed Apr 20 13:03:06 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 05:23:08 1983
References: rlgvax.296


Does anyone know if there was some specific issue that caused the Gerber-
Marvel split? I mean, did Gerber want to do something that Marvel didn't
want him to do?

Marvel's new Epic Comics line, by the way, gives creators the rights to
their characters. This can't be done in the Marvel universe, really.
The connections between characters and the need to be faithful to the
mega-storyline rule out total creative freedom. I admire Gerber very
much, but when he decided to tell a story in the Marvel universe, he
knew what he was getting into. You can't have the cake of a well-developed
background with existing characters and eat it by changing that
background at whim too.

Destroyer Duck was pretty good. It's the only Kirby I've liked in years.

Tim Maroney