August 29, 1980 Complaint Filing, Gerber v. Cadence Industries, et al.

This is an appendix post for the article "All Quacked Up: Steve Gerber, Marvel Comics, and Howard the Duck" (click here).

Below is the August 29, 1980 complaint filed in U. S. District Court, Central District of California, by attorney Henry W. Holmes, Jr. on behalf of Steve Gerber. The defendants are the Cadence Industries Corporation [Marvel Comics’ parent company], Marvel Productions, Inc., Stan Lee, Selluloid Productions, Inc., Peter Shanaberg, Morrie Eiseman, and Peter Coffrin. This is the formal complaint in Gerber’s lawsuit over ownership of Howard the Duck. It is filing #1 on the court docket (click here).