As a "kid" in the 1970s -- 14 at the time HTD #10 was published -- I actually loved Howard the Duck. I wasn't at all familiar with him until I just happened to pick up issue #4, and I can't even recall what compelled me to get as at the time I was entirely into superheroes, but I got and loved it. Even odder, I shared it with my mother (33 at the time) and she enjoyed it too. This may have just been the beginning of my tastes in comics beginning to change, so that eventually I'd even enjoy Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. At any rate, in the mid-70s Steve Gerber was perhaps my favorite comics writer, for the Defenders and Omega the Unknown as well as for Howard.
As a "kid" in the 1970s -- 14 at the time HTD #10 was published -- I actually loved Howard the Duck. I wasn't at all familiar with him until I just happened to pick up issue #4, and I can't even recall what compelled me to get as at the time I was entirely into superheroes, but I got and loved it. Even odder, I shared it with my mother (33 at the time) and she enjoyed it too. This may have just been the beginning of my tastes in comics beginning to change, so that eventually I'd even enjoy Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. At any rate, in the mid-70s Steve Gerber was perhaps my favorite comics writer, for the Defenders and Omega the Unknown as well as for Howard.