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Howard the Duck #10
Issue(s): Howard the Duck #10
Cover Date: Mar 77
Title: "Swan-song ... of the living dead duck!"
Credits:
Steve Gerber - Writer
Gene Colan - Penciler
Stephen Leialoha - Inker
Review/plot:
Howard has some fever dreams while sick in bed after his fight with the beaver from last issue.
He bumps into a bunch of old characters from the series in his dreams...
...as well as people he's never actually met, like "Kong Lomerate"...
...and Omega the Unknown.
Quality Rating: C-
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A
References: N/A
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: Essential Howard the Duck vol. 1
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Comments
The title is probably taken from the 1968 zombie film "Night of the Living Dead".
The title is a reference to Man-Thing #12 (also written by Steve Gerber), "Song-Cry of the Living-Dead Man", another story about a character having an existential crisis. (Ted Sallis, aka Man-Thing, is listed as "consulting schizo" on the splash page).
"Night of the Living Dead" was used for a story title by Steve Gerber, but it was Man-Thing #5 ("Night of the Laughing Dead").
Such excellent work from Gerber.
The outro punchline is probably swiped from the Kilgore Trout novel Venus on the Half Shell.
