DUCK AND COVER

Okay. I know what you're thinking: He's goes to all that trouble, time and effort to point out that comics are not all for kids and he's come up with a funny animal cover. A bit self-defeating I hear you say. Daffy with a bit of Donald you might argue.

Frank Brunner probably didn't want the Spider-Man illo either but I guess the marketing boys had been talking with the boys down town, who never made a move without the boys from accounting and....well you get the picture. Howard The Duck, as written by Steve Gerber, was satire on the current state of America (in the mid 1970s) and best way to slip that under the radar was to dress it up in absurdity. Hence the duck. That outsider view. Howard even ran for President but alas lost out to Jimmy Carter. He turned human once too but quickly reverted. He had a full relationship with Bev, the female on the cover. One issue of HTD was all prose with single page illustrations.

But then the boys from down town got talking with the boys from accounts and Howard The Duck got plucked!