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What is it with this Steve Gerber?

I'm not up to the 70s yet in my Marvel Comics reading project, but my opinion of Steve Gerber from what scattered issues i have read is that he's... ok. And i certainly couldn't make my way through the Essential Howard the Duck the first time around although i do plan to try it again when i get to that point. But whenever one of the characters he created while working for Marvel is used, certain people... react. The range of emotion goes from outrage to nervous apprehension. And i'm not sure i get it. The question of individual creator rights in a shared universe setting is a tricky one that i don't want to get into right now, but what i really want to know is why is using characters created by Gerber an extra-sensitive area, as opposed to, say, using a character created by Marv Wolfman?

P.S. - i like the new look for Howard.

By fnord12 | October 8, 2007, 3:28 PM | Comics


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I don't get it either. Apparently, he was the comics messiah of the '70's. I had the same issue with that Essential Howard the Duck.