- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Marvel Comics; illustrated edition edition (Mar 11 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785108319
- ISBN-13: 978-0785108313
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 16.4 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 662 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #542,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it, you'll like it.,
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This review is from: Essential Howard The Duck TPB (Paperback)
Forget the movie and enjoy the best comic of the 70's (pick up essential Tomb of Dracula too for another great read and more beautiful black and white Gene Colan art). Only complaint is the reproductions seem almost a tad reduced in size from even the other Marvel essential series trades, or is my mind playing tricks?neez!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Howard the Duck is unleashed on the Marvel universe,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Essential Howard The Duck TPB (Paperback)
I have to admit that I was sort of expecting to find that someone had gone back over the original artwork by Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, and others for the issues of "Howard the Duck" collected in this Essential Volume 1 and drawn pants on the fowl trapped in a world he never made. But only in the cover art by Brian Bolland does Howard wear pants, a move mandated, as I recall, by a lawsuit dealing with copyright infringement because of another white skinned duck and his extended family who went without pants. Next thing we know, Howard is being sued for public indecency by some guy named Wally Sidney, and ever since then Howard wore pants.The conceit of Howard the Duck was fairly simple. The foul-mouthed fowl accidentally slipped through a dimensional warp in "Fear" #19 (December 1973), where he had a nice little adventure with the Man-Thing. Unable to get back to the Duckworld, Howard was trapped here with the hairless apes and forced to deal with a world of superheroes instead of the funny animals that most cartoons ducks have to deal with. Howard made something of a splash in the Marvel universe, and in January 1976 he got his own comic books. The common denominator of the stories was writer Steve Gerber, who created the character as a joke (it topped a barbarian eating peanut butter) and then made Howard the Duck the premier social satire comic book. Okay, so there was not a lot of competition for the title, but it was still very good. Val Mayerik did the initial art for Howard in "Fear" #19 and "Man-Thing" #1, but then Frank Brunner did the first four memorable solo adventures for Howard until Gene Colan became the definitive artist, especially when it came to drawing the lovely Beverly Switzer. The hype was all about the werid villains like the incredible Cookie Creature, Kong Lomerate and Dr. Bong, as well as Howard's run for the Presidency against Ford and Carter in 1976, but at its heart this story was about Bev and her ducky. The only thing you need to be worried about is trying to remember what was going on a quarter of a century ago to figure out who and what Gerber is lampooning or skewering at any given moment. Sometime the fun comes just from something as simple as having Howard join the Defenders, just to have the Hulk scratch his head in amazement and Dr. Strange say things like "Behold, Duck--the Orb of Agamotto!" Otherwise, you just think of Howard as the closest thing in comics to Groucho Marx this side of Lord Julius in "Cerebus" (duh) and enjoy the one Marvel comic that was consistently a funny book. As for the movie version, I though the casting of the humans was excellent, especially Lea Thompson as Beverly, and I really liked the title song played by Cherry Bomb at the end, but they would have to really improve the script for it to just stink.
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRAPPED IN A WORLD HE NEVER MADE!,
This review is from: Essential Howard The Duck TPB (Paperback)
What can I say? I found this one day while surfing through Amazon and just had to buy it. Why? Because it collects HTD #1-27, HTD Annual #1, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and the early Man-Thing appearances in one volume (hopefully with another one to follow containing the 9 HTD b&w magazine issues from '79/'80). Why is that such a big deal? Because now I can go back and enjoy it all over again (or lend it out) without having to pull out all the originals that I have stored away (including HTD #1 that Barry was cool enough to buy for me back in the day). Ever wondered why George Lucas first tarnished his career (back in '86 - long before Jar Jar) making HTD into a movie? Here's your answer (as to how he [messed] it up - you got me). Read for yourself.
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