Steve Gerber 1947 - 2008

[theVisitor]

Steve Gerber passes away at age 60.

 

Steve Gerber

 

Terrible news... his work in the 70's (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Defenders..) was wonderful.

 

[alecholland]

That's sad news indeed. My sympathies go out to his friends and family.

[Duffman_Comics]

I never knew he was ill.

 

Have a real soft spot for Howard the Duck and will in all likelihood now go and read same.

 

Vale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an aside, IMHO, the linked report was not a very well written/edited piece.

[shadroch]

I'm sad he's dead. His HTD was awesome,but I never understood his Defenders run. Rest in Peace. Get Down,America.

[shadroch]

I'm sad he's dead. His HTD was awesome,but I never understood his Defenders run. Rest in Peace. Get Down,America.

 

That article reads like it was poorly translated from a Spanish language column.

[djpinkpanther67]

RIP Mr Gerber

[Leescomics]

What a shock.

 

Steve Gerber was a vastly talented writer. His stories blew me away in the 1970s. I had never seen anything like them.

 

I consider him the Alan Moore of his day.

 

- Lee

[Jayman]

One of the few writers I remember meeting, Had him sign my copy of Sludge #1 back when Malibu's Ultraverse was new.

 

R.I.P. Steve!

[Calamerica]

[JohnT]

Very sorry to hear it. Gerber was a major part of the off-beat period that was the Bronze Age.

[Fan4Fan]

My best friend as a kid was a huge Gerber fan... collecting Howard The Duck, Defenders, Man-Thing...

 

While never exactly my cup of tea, Mr. Gerber was the reason my friend and I got together many a summer afternoon reading each others comics.

 

The comic industry really doesn't need to lose such a unique voice...

 

RIP

[precodekeith]

[143ksk]

Very sad He was absolutely my favorite writer in the '70s.

[scottish]

Major bummer.

[brasseye]

"As part of the protracted legal battle, Gerber and the legendary Marvel Comics creator Jack Kirby created the lead feature in an anthology sharing the name Destroyer Duck, from Eclipse, with proceeds from various professional doing stories going to Gerber's war chest. As Mark Evanier points out in his memorial post regarding Gerber, there was no shortage of professionals willing to contribute. "People did that because they knew, first of all, that Steve was fighting not just for his own financial reasons but for matters of principle relating to how the comic book industry treated its creators." The Gerber/Kirby feature is fondly remembered as comics apart from its industry implications. Marvel was satirized in the comic as Godcorp, the merciless corporation that exploited and then killed Destroyer Duck's best friend in a blunt swipe at Marvel's treatment of Gerber's Howard. That character would go on to make brief appearances in future comic books from Marvel and Image, and the original material is to be collected by Image Comics"

 

I'm a heck of alot prouder of my copy of that book. I think we're all richer for his contributions to both the medium, and the artists who performed within it.

 

RIP Steve Gerber.

[joe_collector]

You had to smile each time you saw his byline as Steve "Baby" Gerber.

 

RIP

[tilleycs]

RIP Steve.

[cd4ever]

What a true loss. Along with Steve Englehart, Jim Starlin, and Marv Wolfman, Gerber's writing defined the Bronze age of Marvel Comics. Everything he touched became a just a little bit quirky which meshed perfectly with his plotting and scripting style. His Howard the Duck and Man-Thing comics are classics and always will be.

 

Just last night I was leafing through a bunch of Dracula Lives mags and was surprised at how many of those stories were his. And I read a few and they were all good. To this day, one of my all-time favorite single comics issue remains Iron Man Annual 3, a goofy, brilliant story about a little girl, Iron Man, Man-Thing and the Molecule Man. Great stuff.

 

RIP Mr. Gerber.

[AlexH]

RIP

[comics-rock]

RIP