When I was nine years old I had a letter to the editor published in B&B where I asked them to team up Batman with Krypto. They said that wouldn't work. I'm surprised. Bob Haney could make anything work.
Yeah, we've discussed Haney's WTF tendencies elsewhere at length.
You'd think he'd want to make a kid happy, and squeeze it into a cameo for a few panels in one of his stories.
That's actually what made Howard the Duck an enduring character, instead of a throwaway one-shot (intended by Gerber to be used only for a 2-part story in FEAR 19 and MAN-THING 1 in 1973-1974), was the persistence of several fans (who soon after turned pro) who lobbied hard for a continuing Howard feature, that finally materialized as a back-up series in (my favorite title for a comic book of all time!) GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING issues 4 and 5, and then rolled over to a HOWARD THE DUCK comic series, newspaper strip, and black-and-white magazine.
