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| Howard The Duck Omnibus | 
| Authors: Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik
Creators: Gene Colan, Frank Brunner, John Buscema, Carmine Infantino
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $99.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 107081
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 808
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.9
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 7.7 x 2.1
ISBN: 0785130233
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785130239
ASIN: 0785130233
Publication Date: August 20, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Get down, America! Vote Howard the Duck in 2008! That's right, folks. It's an election year, and what better way to celebrate than to cast your vote for the one candidate who'll tell it like it is. Born on a planet populated by talking waterfowl, Howard the Duck found himself trapped in a world he never made: ours! Howard was the archetypal outsider, able to see through the absurdities of human society in the 1970s with uncanny accuracy and an acerbic wit. His adventures presented writer Steve 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! Experience for yourself the complete comic adventures of Howard in this Omnibus collection, reprinting his first appearances and the entire run of his first series. Collecting stories from Adventures Into Fear #19, Man-Thing #1, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4-5, Howard the Duck #1-33, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and Marvel Team-Up #96.
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Get down, America! September 4, 2008
This big fat book reprints most of the Howard the Duck comic books published in between 1973 and 1986. Notably missing are the stories from the Howard the Duck black and white magazine published from October 1979 to March 1981. The story of Howard the Duck concerns an anthropomorphic duck who ends up on our planet. He has trouble fitting in, of course, and has many misadventures. Howard's original writer, the late Steve Gerber, used Howard as an alter ego. Howard would rail against the things in society that irked Gerber. Pretty heavy stuff for a comic book, but it was done with a humorous touch and was frequently brilliant. The comic was fortunate enough to have several terrific artists work on it, with Gene Colon being the definitive Howard artist (Frank Brunner was great, too, but wasn't with the comic for very long). Alas, Gerber got into a dispute with Marvel Comics over the rights to Howard the Duck, and other people took over the writing of the comic. Some of these non-Gerber stories were downright awful. Still, they are here for the sake of completeness. I would recommend this book, but be perpared for the quality to drop near the end.
Wrong Cover, Great Comic August 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm actually very irked by Amazon's cover. I'm sure its somewhat expected that some details are subject to change, but I was actually quite looking forward to this particular cover. The one they send out has Howard the Duck and his redhead assistant running for their lives, being chased by the Man Thing!!
Regardless of cover discrepencies, this is a great collection of political, insightful, unbiased observation of society. For those who haven't read much of Howard, try to think of him as Donald Duck with the personality of The Boondocks
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