It's Doctor Strange at his very best, brought to you by a host of top-flight creators including Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Stan Lee and Barry Windsor-Smith! They'll take you on a trip to the dark side of the Marvel Universe and bring you before the Undying Ones, Baron Mordo, the cosmic threat of Eternity and the eldritch horror of Shuma-Gorath! Then, Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner break new boundaries of cosmic consciousness and other-dimensional adventure. Their all-time classic "Sise-Neg Genesis" and "Silver Dagger" sagas are strikingly personal epics featuring deliriously lush art and stories that plumb the depths of Strange's soul! Also, witness the death of the Ancient One and Doctor Strange's ascension to Sorcerer Supreme! Collecting Doctor Strange (1968) #180-183, Sub-Mariner (1968) #22, Incredible Hulk (1968) #126, Marvel Feature (1971) #1, Marvel Premiere #3-14 and Doctor Strange (1974) #1-5.
Get the full story of how Marvel's most notorious movie star became trapped in a world he never made! Howard the Duck takes an adventure into fear when he's plucked from Duckworld and finds himself on Earth, bill to proboscis with the melancholy muck-monster Man-Thing! Stuck here on a planet of hairless apes, the furious fowl forges a future for himself in, of all places, Cleveland. But the would-be Master of Quack Fu will have his wings full hanging out with Spider-Man - and waging waaaugh with madcap menaces like the Space Turnip, the Cookie Creature, the Beaver and Doctor Bong. Will that earn him a spot on the Defenders? Better yet, Howard for president! Collecting Fear #19, Man-Thing (1974) #1, Howard the Duck (1976) #1-16 and Annual #1, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and material from Giant-Size Man-Thing #4-5.
Trapped in a Masterworks he never made! There were several worthy candidates for the milestone 300th Marvel Masterworks, but only one waddled away with victory: Howard the Duck! Steve Gerber and artistic cohorts Val Mayerik, Frank Brunner and Gene Colan crafted one of comics' most iconoclastic and hilarious characters. Now Howard's inaugural Masterworks kicks things off with his quirky first appearance as a "fowl out of water," teaming with the macabre Man-Thing to protect Cleveland from the Man-Frog and Hellcow! The satirical stories continue with Howard and gal-pal Beverly Switzler taking on dire threats like the Space Turnip, the Beaver and - public transportation?! And just wait until Howard runs for president! All restored in Masterworks glory! Collecting Howard The Duck (1976) #1-14; Marvel Treasury Edition #12; and material from Fear #19, Man-Thing (1974) #1, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4-5 and F.O.O.M. #15. [(w) Steve Gerber with Frank Brunner /(a) Gene Colan, Frank Brunner with Val Mayerik, John Buscema, Sal Buscema /(ca) Frank Brunner)]
