From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!oz
Newsgroups: net.comics
Title: Re: duck!
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.296
Posted: Wed Apr 20 00:53:20 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 08:25:39 1983
References: cires.2047


What happened was that Steve Gerber had a fight with the folks at MARVEL
and no longer worked on the book.  Gerber felt that since Howard was his
creation, he should be able to make the decisions as to where the char-
acter (duck) should go, and should have all rights to the Duck.  MARVEL
disagreed and a law suit followed.  Steve Gerber then did DESTROYER DUCK
a jab at big business (and MARVEL in particular in the first issue) with
Jack (King) Kerby doing the art work (and a damned good job too).  One
of the nice things to come out of this was the formation of such things
as FIRST COMICS where the creator DOES retain all rights to his/her
creations and has the right to take it to another comic company if they
want.

After Gerber left, Howard was just a shell of his former self, which nobody
can deny, whoppie (Marx Bros quote).  The early issues are certainly worth
looking over.

Interesting thing that I thought of while writing this: there are very few
creative women in comics.  The only one that I can think of off hand, is
Wendy Peni of ELFQUEST fame.  Any others that y'all can think of?  Is this
a topic worth discussion?  Thought I would bring it up.
				FOOC (friend of old CEREBUS)

				OZ
				seismo!rlgvax!oz