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Yes! I love Doctor Bong, very good call! I haven’t read Howard the Duck in so long, but I read them all so much as a kid. I remember Doctor Bong’s origin being really funny, but I can’t for the life of me recall it.

OK, we *totally* need an origin from somebody, here. Because, in many months of lurking, this is easily the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on this blog. Including Giant Turtle Jimmy Olsen.

Actually, that’s one of the brillaint things about Bong — his origin is that he was a creepy little jerk who used slander to get the things he wanted as a child and an adolescent, who later became a rock musician. While touring with an Alice Cooper style band*, secretly planning to write a book accusing them all of corrupting America’s youth, he lost his hand to a prop guillotine.

And that’s as far as he ever gets in explaining how he became a gigantic, bell-helmeted, genetic engineer who can alter reality by hitting himself in the head. It’s gloriously insane stuff, really.

* The bandleader, Mildred Horowitz, was later killed off by a different nutcase in Gerber’s Man-Thing around the same time.

A-whoops! Mildred was slaughtered by the minions of a prior villain in Howard’s comic, the Supreme Soofi (herself a satire of Anita Bryant). I got him confused with Eugene “Star” Spangler, a different glam rocker that Gerber killed off in Man-Thing.

Did we force you into this one?

I dunno if we forced him into it, oh funky one. I think Dr. Bong was a gimmee for Doctors Week, kind of like Dr. Strange.

Summary of Deadpool #27. This, along with the previous issue, has been my only exposure to the Doctor. And yeah, the story — featuring a gratutious cameo from Wolverine as shown on the cover — was freakin’ awesome. One day, Marvel has to collect Joe Kelly’s run on the title. Great times.

Neez!

I have those two comics posted above–Howard’s series was inconsistent–but those 2 issues were classics (Those 2 & Star Wauuugh! anyways)

Dr Bong is a cool idea, and nicely parodies a lot.

So good to see him…

Now to see if the extra days bring me Dr Forklift…
(But I doubt it.)

He also showed up near the end of Joe Kelley’s (sp?) run on Deadpool…. as a psychiatrist that Deadpool saw to get rid of the crazies… it didn’t take

The link about his past says he and Beverly never consumated their marriage.

I thought they did and Beverly didn’t mind staying with him after that.
(Been a few years since I read the essentials though).

Howard the Duck was pretty much the best comic Marvel’s ever put out. And this proves it.

Considering your tatses, I guess this one (Doctor Bong) was inevitable.

But where is DR ANTHONY KING, HOLLYWOOD LOVE DOCTOR ???

Why wasn’t Dr Bong ever used in Nextwave?

The link about his past says he and Beverly never consumated their marriage.

I thought they did and Beverly didn’t mind staying with him after that.
(Been a few years since I read the essentials though).

Gerber and Colan clearly indicated that Bev and Bong had grown to like one another, and wrote in a not-too-subtle scene in whicht hey did indeed con summate the marriage. Gerber’s intention was to write Bev out of the book this way, reversing the usual “girlfriend kidnapped by the lovestruck villain” plot.

However, Bill Mantlo took over Howard when Gerber left over creative control disputes, and Mantlo wanted Bev in the book. He effectively retconned the (Code-friendly, and thus ambiguous) consummation scene and had Bev scheming to outwit and escape Bong all along.

Ahhh… ThanX for the BONG hit.

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Badger enough and thou shalt receive

Why wasn’t Dr Bong ever used in Nextwave?

That could be one for the Hicksville library right there.