WAUGH! We all know the story (or at least we all should know the story) of how Howard the Duck just sort of appeared in the middle of a Man-Thing adventure (Fear #19, August, 1973) courtesy the warped imaginations of creators Steve Gerber and Val Mayerick. What you may not know is the Howard immediately caught fandom's attention and was scheduled to appear as a solo strip in Monsters Unleashed. Those plans were changed after two solo Howard strips (both with monster/horror themed plots) were completed. Marvel was never a company to waste anything (especially far-out characters and strips), so the finished strips (with art by the more-than-awesome Frank Brunner) saw print as back-up strips in Giant-Size Man-Thing (issues 4 and 5).With that info in mind, it is Ol' Groove's pleasure to present his favorite of the two strips, Howard's battle with that bovine blood-sucker, Hellcow! Story by Gerber, pencils by Brunner, and inks by Tomb of Dracula inker supreme Tom Palmer from G.S. Man-Thing #5 (May, 1975) and brought to you by...
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