Courtesy of Jim Shooter’s blog, here are the official model sheets for Howard The Duck, post-Disney legal action, in which he had been redesigned in order to be less likely to resemble Donald Duck. Curiously enough, Shooter reports that, although these sketches come from John Romita Snr., Disney actually provided Marvel with the design they deemed acceptable (“John actually seemed pleased to have gotten Disney to do the work for us,” he adds). If only they could’ve known what was to come between the two companies decades later…
Another sheet after the jump.
August 5th, 2011 at 7:26 am
What I don’t get is why they *don’t* use this model sheet currently. The pictures of Howard on the “Fear Itself — Fearsome Four” (or whatever it is) use this look on the cover, but use the awful current redesign on the inside.
It’s so drastically jarring a difference (about on the level of how Marvel’s Dracula looks compared to the classic Gene Colan look), you wouldn’t think it’s the same character.