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Destroyer Duck
Destroyer Duck cover.jpg
Cover to Destroyer Duck #5 by Jack Kirby and Alfred Alcala.
Publication information
PublisherEclipse Comics
Image Comics
GenreAction
Satire
Publication date1982
Creative team
Created bySteve Gerber
Jack Kirby
Written bySteve Gerber
(issues #1-5)
Buzz Dixon
(issues #6-7)
Penciller(s)Jack Kirby
(issues #1-5)
Gary Kato
(issues #6-7)
Inker(s)Alfred Alcala
(issues #1-7)
Steve Leialoha
(issue #1)
Letterer(s)Tom Orzechowski
(issues #1-2)
Adam Kubert
(issue #3)
Ken Bruzenak
(issue #4)
Peter Iro
(issue #5)
Gary Kato
(issues #6-7)

Destroyer Duck was an anthology comic book published by Eclipse Comics in 1982, as well as the title of its primary story, written by Steve Gerber and featuring artwork by Jack Kirby and Alfredo Alcala.[1][2]

The book was published as a way to help Gerber raise funds for a lawsuit he was embroiled in at the time,[3] in which he was battling industry giant Marvel Comics over the ownership of the character Howard the Duck,[4] which Gerber created for the company in 1973.

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Anthology

Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.

Comic book

Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form.

Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market. It was one of the first to offer royalties and creator ownership of rights.

Steve Gerber

Steve Gerber

Stephen Ross Gerber was an American comic book writer and creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck. Other works include Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, Marvel Spotlight: "Son of Satan", The Defenders, Marvel Presents: "Guardians of the Galaxy", Daredevil and Foolkiller. Gerber often included lengthy text pages in the midst of comic book stories, such as in his graphic novel, Stewart the Rat. Gerber was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2010.

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics.

Alfredo Alcala

Alfredo Alcala

Alfredo P. Alcala was a Filipino comics artist, born in Talisay, Negros Occidental in the Philippines. Alcala was an established illustrator whose works appeared in the Alcala Komix Magazine. His 1963 creation Voltar introduced him to an international audience, particularly in the United States. Alcala garnered awards in science fiction during the early part of the 1970s.

Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, Magazine Management/Atlas Comics in 1951 and its predecessor, Marvel Mystery Comics, the Marvel Comics title/name/brand was first used in June 1961.

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered anthropomorphic animal trapped on a human-dominated Earth. Echoing this, the most common tagline of his comics reads 'Trapped In a World He Never Made!'

Overview

The main story of the comic told of Louis "Duke" Duck, a resident of a typical anthropomorphic comic-book world, who had witnessed his best friend, identified only as "The Little Guy" or "TLG", vanish into thin air before his eyes. Some years later, TLG reappeared only to die at Duke's feet—but not before telling the tale of how he was exploited and destroyed by a thoughtless conglomeration, "Godcorp." Swearing revenge, Duke vowed to take down Godcorp no matter what the cost.[5]

Subsequent Destroyer Duck tales would reveal that the Little Guy who died at Duke's feet was in fact a clone, and the original was still held captive by Godcorp; eventually, Gerber (by that point on better terms with Marvel, the lawsuit having long since been settled) revealed that The Little Guy's real name was actually "Leonard" - a new duck character that, for all intents and purposes, was identical in every way (except in name and character ownership) to Howard.

The stories introduced sentient scented dolls and Wobblina Strangelegs, who nearly got her own one-shot. After five issues, Gerber gave up writing the title, but remained its editor. Buzz Dixon wrote the last two issues, about a STD-infected parody of Gilligan’s Island. Frank Miller drew the cover of the final issue. The seven issues of the comic were published very sporadically.

Issue #1 of the original Destroyer Duck series, labeled the "Special Lawsuit Benefit Edition", is notable for containing the first appearance of Sergio Aragonés’s Groo the Wanderer and also featuring additional stories by Mark Evanier, Dan Spiegle, Shary Flenniken, Martin Pasko, and Joe Staton.[6] The rest of the series contained the back-up feature The Starling, written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, with art by Val Mayerik.

In 1994, while Gerber was working at Image for Top Cow Studio on Codename: Strykeforce, Gerber planned for issue #14 to include Destroyer Duck. At the last minute, Marc Silvestri declined, forcing Gerber and his editor, David Wohl, to revise the story. Destroyer Duck does not appear as such in the story, but Gerber introduces Specimen Q, a mysterious character imprisoned in his armor who is Destroyer Duck, as readers will learn in the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck one-shot in 1996.

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Editing

Editing

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Buzz Dixon

Buzz Dixon

Buzz Dixon is an American writer of comic books, film, and cartoons. He has written comics for multiple companies, including Eclipse Comics, Marvel Comics, and a Buck Rogers adaptation for TSR, Inc.

Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967. The series follows the comic adventures of seven castaways as they try to survive on an island where they are shipwrecked. Most episodes revolve around the dissimilar castaways' conflicts and their unsuccessful attempts to escape their plight, with Gilligan usually being responsible for the failures.

Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer.

Groo the Wanderer

Groo the Wanderer

Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book series written and drawn by Sergio Aragonés, rewritten, co-plotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai and colored by Tom Luth. Over the years it has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics.

Mark Evanier

Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier is an American comic book and television writer, known for his work on the animated TV series Garfield and Friends and on the comic book Groo the Wanderer. He is also known for his columns and blog News from ME, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, such as his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.

Dan Spiegle

Dan Spiegle

Dan Spiegle was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies, including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.

Martin Pasko

Martin Pasko

Martin Joseph "Marty" Pasko was a Canadian comic book writer and television screenwriter.

Joe Staton

Joe Staton

Joe Staton is an American comics artist and writer. He co-created the Bronze Age Huntress, as well as the third Huntress, Kilowog and the Omega Men for DC Comics. He was the artist of the Dick Tracy comic strip from 2011 to October 2021.

Jerry Siegel

Jerry Siegel

Jerome Siegel was an American comic book writer. He is the co-creator of Superman, in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster. Siegel and Shuster were inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. Siegel also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter and Jerry S.

Codename: Strykeforce

Codename: Strykeforce

Codename: Strykeforce was a comic book series by Top Cow and Image Comics, about a team of mercenary superheroes.

Marc Silvestri

Marc Silvestri

Marc Silvestri is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He serves as CEO of both Top Cow Productions and Image Comics.

Source: "Destroyer Duck", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, April 30th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer_Duck.

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Notes
  1. ^ "365 Reasons to Love Comics #157 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book ResourcesComics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources". goodcomics.comicbookresources.com. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  2. ^ "SteveGerber.com - WHEN'S A DUCK NOT A DUCK? - COMICON.com". stevegerber.com. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  3. ^ "Steve Gerber and Jack Kirby Collaborate on the 'Manslaying Mallard of Vengeance'" Comics Feature #12/13 (September/October 1981) p. 14
  4. ^ "Gerber Sues Marvel over Rights to Duck", The Comics Journal #62 (March 1981), pp. 11-13.
  5. ^ Markstein, Don. "Destroyer Duck". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. ^ "GCD :: Issue :: Destroyer Duck #1". comics.org. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
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