Steve Gerber

A meta-fictional curiosity, this in-universe version of writer Steve Gerber appears as a character within his own Man-Thing stories, blurring the boundary between creator and creation. The real Gerber famously wrote Man-Thing and Howard the Duck during Marvel's Bronze Age.

A fascinating meta-curiosity in the Marvel universe, Steve Gerber — the real-life Bronze Age writer behind Man-Thing and Howard the Duck — exists within the comics themselves as a distinct character, blurring the line between creator and creation in wonderfully strange fashion. Debuting in 1975 in the pages of Man-Thing, this fictionalized version of Gerber has kept remarkable company over the decades, sharing issues with Howard the Duck, the Hulk, Thor, and Spider-Man. With appearances spanning an impressive 45 years across Howard the Duck, Man-Thing, and Comic Book Comics, he's a genuinely unique figure in Marvel history — a writer immortalized inside his own work. For collectors who love the weird, self-referential corners of Bronze Age storytelling, this character is an irresistible rabbit hole.