About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Characters created by Steve Gerber, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Foolkiller, Jennifer Kale, Silver Samurai, Wundarr the Aquarian, Omega the Unknown, Starhawk, Mandrill, N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, Richard Rory, Nekra, Hard Time, The Legion of Night, Exiles, Starlight, Angar the Screamer, Doctor Bong, Ruby Thursday, Amber Hunt, Black Spectre, Tamara Rahn, Cybernary, Dakimh the Enchanter, Force, Destroyer Duck, Lord Pumpkin, Poison, Sludge, Green Lantern, Elf with a Gun, Headmen, Kamuu, Void Indigo, Nevada, Thog, Superman: Last Son of Earth, Korrek, Fifi the Duck, The Entity, Hydro-Men, Zartra, Band of the Bland, A. Bizarro, Allatou, Abominatrix, Baphomet, Ikthalon, Captain Fate, Stewart the Rat. Excerpt: The Man-Thing is a fictional character, a monster in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the character first appeared in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), and went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series, including Adventure into Fear, which introduced the character Howard the Duck. Steve Gerber's 39-issue run on the series is a cult classic that was influential on such writers as Neil Gaiman, who would later write for Swamp Thing. Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, humanoid creature living in the Florida Everglades near the Seminole reservation. As described in the text featurette "The Story Behind the Scenes" in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), the black-and-white adventure fantasy magazine in which the character debuted in an 11-page origin story, Man-Thing was conceived in discussions between Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and writer Roy Thomas, and that together they created five possible origins. Lee provided the name, which had previously been used for unrelated creatures in Marvel's early science-fiction/fantasy antho...
