From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad:tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch
Newsgroups: net.comics
Title: Re: Howard The Duck - (nf)
Article-I.D.: dadla-b.436
Posted: Fri Apr 29 15:46:59 1983
Received: Tue May  3 04:02:31 1983
References: rlgvax.325

OZ, you are still a humbug.

I know from where I speak.  Howard the Duck was NOT repeat NOT a gerber
creation, he was created by the ARTIST for the series, and much of hte
plotting and character development was done by the creative TEAM on that
comic.  See, in the real world, where Gerber doesn't always live (refer
to the famous Dakhim the Enchanter episodes for his own corroboration)
people work on comics in teams, where one person will greatly modify the
work of another,  This is why, for instance, Jean Grey was killed:  Byrne
thought it would be more compelling if Phoenix ate an inhabited planet,
and Shooter had a fit about it *much* later.  C.C. didn't write it that way.

Similarly, Howard was not strictly a Gerber creation, he was the work of
a team of creative people who should have at least as much right to him
as Gerber does.  Marvel simply claims that ANY character which is developed
under their aegis (the shield of Athene, bearing the head of the Gorgon)
is their property, barring legal arrangements aimed at preventing this.
Since Gerber made the strongest characterisations of Howard, I might not
mind it if he were to take over the character, but I will not admit that
Destroyer Duck is anything more than tripe.  So there, >Braaaak<

Cordially,
Hutch