Talk:Steve Gerber

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Steve's Defenders can be compared to the Morrison DPs: they feature a homicidal dwarf (which I still don't get) & had Kyle's brain in a dish for about 6 ish. (Musta been some pretty good dope...) Trekphiler 01:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Death announcement

Steve Gerber's death is reported here. www.newsfromme.com This is a relaible source in the colloequial sense, but I do not believe it unqualifiedly meets wikipedia's definition. I provide the source here to avoid hoax allegations, and I expect that within a short time a more traditional news source will be available for citqation. Minos P. Dautrieve (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Update: death confirmed by comics newssite, link added to references. I'm sure somebody else can fix the format. Minos P. Dautrieve (talk) 00:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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ABC Standards and Practices

In searching for a citation for this quote, the only place I could find it was in a personal e-mail from Steve Gerber to me, which I don't believe is citable based on Wikipedia's rules unless someone publishes his collected letters and it's in there. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Bankruptcy

Michael Gerber, Steve's older brother, had an anecdote about Steve's bankruptcy at Gerber's memorial at the 2008 New York Comic Con. He said that the judge was a fan who was outraged that the writer of Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, The Defenders, and Omega the Unknown had to file for bankruptcy. I'm not sure this is citable even though probably 100 people witnessed it.--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 16:36, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Naw, but all it would take is one to write about it in a reliable-source publication! --Tenebrae (talk) 22:59, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

How is this? http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16157

That'll do it — and good thing we checked ... it turns out to have been not the judge but the court reporter! It does have to be framed as "Buzz Dixon recalled that..." since there's no way to independently confirm the story. But now we've confirmed that Dixon said it. Great addition to the article, dude! --Tenebrae (talk) 23:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Non-influences on Steve Gerber

This might be off-topic for here, but posed this question on my Man-Thing and Howard the Duck Yahoo! groups and got only a partial answer.

In Fear #19, Jim Hunter of Durham, NC asks if Gerber is familiar with any of the following:

• Bulkington [character in Moby Dick]
• Cheregorodstev [no Google hits other than to this question]
• Hari Seldon [Asimov character]
• Milton Pinski [someone mentioned in Nabokov's Lolita]
• S.K. Lus [no Google hits that make sense other than this question]
• Paul Morel [main character in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers]

The response is that Gerber knows of Hari Seldon, the psychohistorian from Asimov's Foundation trilogy. A No-Prize is offered for anyone who can identify the others. Wikipedia doesn't know who any of them are, and I don't seem to be finding them on Google, either. These guys must be too arcane to have made it onto the Internet so far, or else they are copyrighted fictional characters that have not been written about in essays. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 15:59, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Steve Gerber

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Steve Gerber's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Lambiek":

• From Johnny Hart: Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Johnny Hart".
• From Alan Kupperberg: "Alan Kupperberg". Lambiek Comiclopedia. May 29, 2009. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
• From Russ Manning: Manning biography at Lambiek.net's Comiclopedia. Accessed November 8, 2008.
• From William Messner-Loebs: "Bill Messner-Loebs". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 2016. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
• From Gil Kane: "Gil Kane". Lambiek Comiclopedia. December 14, 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014.
• From Kevin Nowlan: "Kevin Nowlan". Lambiek Comiclopedia. May 15, 2009. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
• From Marv Wolfman: "Alan Kupperberg". Lambiek Comiclopedia. May 29, 2009. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
• From Alfredo Alcala: "Alfredo Alcala". Lambiek Comiclopedia. July 29, 2012. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016.
• From Joe Kubert: "Joe Kubert". Lambiek Comiclopedia. August 13, 2012. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2012.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:29, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Howard newspaper strip

The article reads "Marvel attempted a spin-off with a short-lived Howard the Duck syndicated comic strip from 1977 to 1978, initially scripted by Gerber and drawn by Colan, Mayerik and Alan Kupperberg.[17] Later, writing duties were taken over by another experienced comic book writer, Marv Wolfman.[18]" with something wrong with the first reference. The second reference - https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kupperberg_a.htm - has "In 1978 he took over the 'Howard the Duck' weekly comic with Marv Wolfman. A year later he took over the newspaper comic 'The Incredible Hulk', based on the popular TV series (1978-1982) with whom it ran parallel." I suppose the reference to "weekly comic" actually means daily newspaper strip, but it would be good if we could have a better source. Lambiek is not even clear if Kupperberg wrote or drew the strip. -- Beardo (talk) 04:33, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

I found these detailed articles - http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2016/03/on-strips-howard-duck.html, http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/obscurity-of-day-howard-duck.html and http://www.nemsworld.com/howard/. I am not sure if any of them are sources that wikipedia would want to use. -- Beardo (talk) 17:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Thundersword

In https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Gerber&oldid=1082338616 @Escape Orbit: reverted my source saying "A comment section post is not a reliable source for "considered"". Is it really a comment section post? The heading says Comic News. -- Error (talk) 17:07, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

I could only see any mention of Thundarr the Barbarian in the comment section of the article. No mention at all of Thundersword or Cadwall. Sorry, did I miss it in the article? --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't see a comment section. In the text by Brian Cronin, I read:

Therefore, perhaps in response to Gerber's complaints about them, in Secret Wars II #1 in 1985 (RIGHT before Gerber actually went back to work for Marvel), Jim Shooter, Al Milgrom and Steve Leialoha introduced a character known as Thundersword who is clearly just an extended parody of early 1980s Steve Gerber...

Besides Thundersword having a similar name to Thundarr, Thundarr also had a lightning sword...

Gerber, to his credit, later said that he enjoyed the issue.

Cadwall is named in the reproduced comic frames.

--Error (talk) 17:32, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

@Escape Orbit:: I have added a reference to a comment section but, since it is by Jim Shooter in his site talking about his creation, I think it is reliable enough. --Error (talk) 17:40, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Maybe the problem was that there were two references named "Cronin". I have renamed mine. --Error (talk) 17:50, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

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