Original sentence: Besides a lengthy run on The Defenders (which included the introduction of Korvac), Gerber scripted Man-Thing, about a swamp-monster empath; Omega The Unknown, which explored the strange link between a cosmic superhero and a boy; and Howard the Duck, created with artist Val Mayerik as a throwaway character in a Man-Thing story.Gerber and artist Gene Colan later collaborated on a Howard the Duck syndicated comic strip.Gerber collaborated heavily with writer Carole Seuling on Shanna the She-Devil to the point that he has been credited with co-creating the character and her supporting cast
Edited sentence: Besides a lengthy run on The Defenders (which included the introduction of Korvac), Gerber scripted Man-Thing, about a swamp-monster empath; Omega The Unknown, which explored the strange link between a cosmic superhero and a boy; and Howard the Duck, created with artist Val Mayerik as a throwaway character in a Man-Thing story, and then eventually brought back in solo backup stories in Giant-Size Man-Thing (with artist Frank Brunner) before getting his own series (with art primarily by penciler Gene Colan and inker Steve Leialoha).Gerber and Colan later collaborated on a Howard the Duck syndicated comic strip.He collaborated heavily with Carole Seuling on Shanna the She-Devil to the point that he has been credited with co-creating the character and her supporting cast.He more modestly claimed that only Nekra is his creation