From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!oz
Newsgroups: net.comics
Title: Re: Howard The Duck - (nf)
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.391
Posted: Sun May  8 15:17:24 1983
Received: Tue May 17 22:08:41 1983
References: rlgvax.325 dadla-b.436 rlgvax.388 sask.249


	I agree that Gerber has no legal claim and that he knew what he was
signing.  I think that in order for comics of high quality to come out, there
has to be a way for writers/creators to have legal claim on a character.  This
has been proved by the high quality of the comics coming out from PACIFIC
COMICS, FIRST COMICS AND (whoopie, cheers) CEREBUS.  I am not saying that some
comics haven't improved since their beginning because of new writers.  A good
example of that is DAREDEVIL.  Look at the first issues, it was always an in-
teresting comic, but it had its best years under Miller, many years after Stan
Lee left it.  There is definatly a place in the comic world for both types of
arrangements, the company owning the characters and keeping the integrity of
them intact, and the creator being able to call all the shots, and I find the
new trend in comics to be very good for us, the readers.

				OZ
				seismo!rlgvax!oz