Steve Gerber passed away on Sunday and for Comic fans it comes as quite a blow. Steve has been a notable name in comics for last 40 years and will continue to do so. Most famously Steve created the Marvel Comics character Howard The Duck. Not to be confused with the awful George Lucas movie on which it was based, the Howard comic was a biting satire of life and politics in the 1970's told from the perspective of a walking, talking alien duck, stuck in a world he never made.
I've been a fan of Howard for a long, long time owning almost all of the Gerber penned issues as well as the later comics and fun Marvel Magazines that continued the story. Most recently I've been reading his work on the Dr. Fate story in Countdown to Mystery, of which #5 shipped two weeks ago out of the planned 8. A planned complete collection of the entire Howard the Duck series is to be reprinted in Color in the Howard the Duck Omnibus to ship in April, if you've always been curious, I wholeheartedly urge you to read it.
The comics world lost a great one, and Mr. Gerber will be missed.
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