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Marvel Team-Up #96
Issue(s): Marvel Team-Up #96
Cover Date: Aug 80
Title: "Panic in the streets"
Credits:
Alan Kupperberg - Writer
Alan Kupperberg - Penciler
Alan Kupperberg - Inker
Mark Gruenwald - Assistant Editor
Denny O'Neil - Editor
Review/plot:
This will probably sound like blasphemy to someone, but this all-Kupperberg Howard the Duck Marvel Team-Up issue reads exactly like any issue of Steve Gerber's Howard series to me. You've got Howard the Duck working as a cab driver (that's the premise in the concurrent Howard the Duck magazine series), hired by a guy called Status Quo to drive all the way from Cleveland to New York...
..so that he can preach against fads. He hates skateboards, hoola hoops, CB radios, disco, etc..
In the end, his anti-fad crusade becomes a fad itself, and he decides he needs to rethink things.
I think as part of a lawsuit threat from Disney, Howard is wearing pants in this issue...
...but after the crowd attacks him, he's nekkid (except for his gloves) for the rest of the book.
Again, seems like typical Howard to me (mind you, i didn't really like Gerber's Howard the Duck series very much).
Quality Rating: C-
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP place this between Amazing Spider-Man #208-209, but it's a context-free story. For Howard, the MCP place this between the first and second story of Howard the Duck Magazine #5. I've placed this entry directly before that one.
References:
- Spider-Man met Howard the Duck in Howard the Duck #1.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
Marvel stated in late summer 1983 that Steve Gerber was getting bcak on Howard the Duck in a "different format", but nothing came of it.
This really is an all-Kupperberg issue...he even letters it!
Kupperberg had been the final artist on the HOWARD THE DUCK newspaper strip.
Mickey Rodent stated in 1955 that Disney's funny animal characters can't remove their gloves, because they're "tattooed on." And besides that, without gloves a duck like Howard wouldn't have any fingers.
The title to this story could have been taken from the 1950 Elia Kazan film, featuring Richard Widmark as a doctor in the U.S. Public Health Service racing to prevent a pneumonic plague epidemic from spreading through New Orleans. It's notable for being the big screen debut of Jack Palance.
