Brief History
Gerber appears himself by the first time in Man-Thing #3, where he helps Richard Rory and Ruth Hart who are stranded in the swamp where Man-Thing lives by providing them gasoline. Albeit he doesn’t name himself, the readers can recognize him by his shirt and the shape of his head. He then re-appears in the next issue, where Rory mistakes him for the murderous vigilante Foolkiller (who at that point was hunting Rory since Ohio) and punches him.
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Gerber’s next appearance is in the last issue of Man-Thing series, where he reveals that all the Man-Thing’s adventures written by him were in reality re-told facts to him by Dakihm the Enchanter. He also states this will be the last time he will write them, as his involvement with Man-Thing ends putting himself in danger when the demon Thog comes to get him after Gerber received one of the Nightmare Boxes. Joining forces with Man-Thing and Dakihm, they together stop Thog from destroying the reality, though the whole experience makes Gerber feel his work in the comics about Man-Thing is getting “too personal”.
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In the last page of the comic, he bids farewell to Man-Thing and Dakihm, and sends a message to Len Wein telling he, sadly, can’t work in the series anymore.