Thing, they worked  together on the first ongoing series of the comic book character and  developed it further (e.g. establishing the "nexus of all  realities"). Steve Gerber (qv) is also known as creator of "Howard  the Duck" and Mike Ploog is famous for his work on Marvel Comics  adaptations "Planet of the Apes" and "Monster of Frankenstein" and  most recently for his work on "Abadazad" (CrossGen Comics) and  "Stardust Kid" (Image Comics) with writer J.M. DeMatteis (qv).