About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: 1973 comic debuts, Comics characters introduced in 1973, Shang-Chi, Howard the Duck, Ghost Rider, Baron Zemo, Cutie Honey, Thanos, Blade, Moondragon, Killraven, Drax the Destroyer, Freedom Fighters, Mantis, The Night Gwen Stacy Died, Daimon Hellstrom, Black Orchid, Wendigo, Starfox, Brother Voodoo, Zombie, Mister Miracle, Wundarr the Aquarian, Wildfire, Klarion the Witch Boy, Mandrill, Black Jack, Satana, Solomon Kane, Chemistro, Nekra, Steve Lombard, Zzzax, Rerun van Pelt, Deacon Frost, War Is Hell, E-Man, Orb, Prez, Basilisk, Nightshade, Bi-Beast, Angar the Screamer, Erik Killmonger, Blood Brothers, Mercurio the 4-D Man, Black Jack Tarr, Man-Killer, Hangman, Doctor Spektor, Worlds Unknown, Mentor, Tamara Rahn, Moondark, Gremlin, Kronos, Ultimus, Quincy Harker, Tyr, Plop!, ISAAC, Vampire Tales, Solarr, Monsters Unleashed, Hydro-Men, Shiver and Shake, Spook, Black Magic, Lucas Brand, Billoo, Uranos, Omega, Baron Samedi, Nimrod, Sui-San, Infra-Worlders, Ludi, Venomm, Ningal, Dagoth, Cassandra Craft. Excerpt: Howard the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny animal" trapped on human-dominated Earth. Howard's adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist, and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: "that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view." This is diametrically opposed to screenwriter Gloria Katz, who in adapting the comic to the screen declared, "It's a...