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Howard the Duck
出版Marvel, 2008-08-06
主題Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes
ISBN07851302339780785130239
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KjAdPQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Trapped in a world he never made" ... When Howard the Duck waddled out of the Florida Everglades and encountered the Man-Thing in 1973, no one - not the muck encrusted creature, not the readers and certainly not the creators - expected the character to be anything other than a throwaway cameo. Yet once the words started tumbling out from his beak, courtesy of Steve Gerber, he was refreshingly outrageous and people noticed. Later, Howard was tapped to star in a series of short stories in the back of Giant Size Man-Thing. Gerber used this fowl out of water to satirize horror conventions, and people responded with increasing enthusiasm. Marvel Comics asked Gerber to write a solo series, and a phenomenon was born. His first issue, released in winter 1976, was an instant collector's item, and Howard gained national headlines when he ran for president on the All-Night Party ticket. After his cosmic battle alongside Man-Thing, Howard found himself dropped unceremoniously in Cleveland, Ohio. Now trapped on Earth, separated from his home on Duckworld, Howard had to suffer the madness perpetrated by the "hairless apes" he now had to live among. He wound up rescuing the nude model Beverly Switzler from the clutches of Pro-Rata (with a little help from Spider-Man). She offered him a safe haven - and quickly, the two fell in love. He tried to live a normal life, driving a cab. Instead, one bizarre threat after another scorched his tail feathers. All too often, Howard would have to park the taxi and put down cosmic, horrific and plain old odd threats to the moral and social fabric of America. His adventures presented Gerber with a platform from which to engage in an ongoing critique of contemporary fools and pretenders, from power mad capitalist wizard Pro-Rata to cult leader Reverend Joon Moon Yuc to the dreaded Doctor Bong! Another reason the characters and stories gained popularity had much to do with the verve brought to them by the artists, led by Val Mayerik who first designed Howard. Frank Brunner's atmospheric brushwork grounded those first solo stories; later, Gene Colan's unique page design complemented Gerber's social commentary. The character's popularity was such that he also appeared in a daily newspaper strip and later was the first Marvel hero to hit the silver screen in a film produced by George Lucas, a Howard fan. Thirty five years after his introduction, Howard remains one of Marveldom's most beloved characters. Step back to the beginning in this collection of stories collected together for the first time with digitally remastered coloring - although the biting satire remains just as resonant.