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Howard the Duck

February 11, 2023

This article is about the character and comic book series. For the film adaptation, see Howard the Duck (film). For the video game, see Howard the Duck (video game).

Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (cover-dated Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered anthropomorphic animal trapped on a human-dominated Earth. Echoing this, the most common tagline of his comics reads 'Trapped In a World He Never Made!'

Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck as depicted on a variant cover of Howard the Duck #1 (November 2015)
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceAdventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973)
Created bySteve Gerber (writer)
Val Mayerik (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoHoward Duckson
SpeciesDuckworldian
Place of originDuckworld
Team affiliationsCircus of Crime
Defenders
All-Night Party
Daydreamers
A.R.M.O.R.
Fearsome Four
Ducky Dozen
PartnershipsMan-Thing
Beverly Switzler
Notable aliasesLeonard the Duck, Howard the Human, Iron Duck, Agent Duck, Cynical Duck
AbilitiesMaster of Quack-Fu
Minimal magic manipulation
As Iron Duck:
Armored suit grants:
Superhuman strength and durability
Foot-mounted leaping coils
Chest-mounted searchlight
Flamethrowers in both arms

Howard's adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist, and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: "... that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view."[1] Gloria Katz, producer of the notorious, ill-fated 1986 movie adaptation of the comic, expressed a diametrically opposed opinion of the character, "It's a film about a duck from outer space ... It's not supposed to be an existential experience."[2]

Howard the Duck was portrayed by Ed Gale and voiced by Chip Zien in the critically and commercially unsuccessful 1986 self-titled film. Starting in 2014, the character, voiced by Seth Green, appeared in cameos in several Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, the Disney XD animated series Guardians of the Galaxy (2015–19) and Ultimate Spider-Man (2016; with Kevin Michael Richardson), and the Disney+ series What If...? (2021).

Publication history

 
Howard the Duck's first appearance in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973). Art by penciler Val Mayerik and inker Sal Trapani.

Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) as a secondary character in that comic's "Man-Thing" feature.[3][4] He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5 (May and Aug. 1975), confronting such bizarre horror-parody characters as Garko the Man-Frog and Bessie the Hellcow, before acquiring his own comic book title with Howard the Duck #1 in 1976.[3][5]

 
Howard the Duck #1 (Jan. 1976), with
series co-star Beverly Switzler in background.
Cover art by Frank Brunner.

Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series (for the most part ditching the horror parodies), illustrated by a variety of artists, beginning with Frank Brunner. For Gerber, Howard was a flesh-and-blood duck and explained that "If Wile E. Coyote gets run over by a steamroller, the result is a pancake-flat coyote who can be expected to snap back to three dimensions within moments; if Howard gets run over by a steamroller, the result is blood on asphalt."[1] Gene Colan became the regular penciller with issue #4.[3] Gerber later said to Colan: "There really was almost a telepathic connection there. I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another artist before or since."[6]

Sporting the slogan "Get Down, America!", the All-Night Party was a fictional political party that appeared in Gerber's Howard the Duck series during the U.S. Presidential campaign of 1976,[7][8] and led to Howard the Duck allegedly receiving thousands of write-in votes in the actual election.[9] Gerber addressed questions about the campaign in the letters column of the comic book and, as Mad Genius Associates, sold merchandise publicizing the campaign.

Marvel attempted a spin-off with a short-lived Howard the Duck newspaper comic strip from 1977 to 1978, at first written by Gerber and drawn by Colan and Mayerik,[10] later written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Alan Kupperberg.[11]

Gerber gained a degree of creative autonomy when he became the comic series' editor in addition to his usual writing duties. With issue #16, unable to meet the deadline for his regular script, Gerber substituted an entire issue of text pieces and illustrations satirizing his own difficulties as a writer.[12]

The Walt Disney Company contacted Marvel in 1977 over concerns that the visual design of Howard infringed on their trademark for Donald Duck. Marvel agreed to a redesign of the character by Disney artists. A key feature of the redesign was that the character would wear pants.[13]

In 1978, Gerber was removed from the newspaper strip and the comic-book series due to chronic problems with deadlines.[14] His final issue of the comic-book series was #27 (September 1978). The series continued for four more issues with stories by Marv Wolfman, Mary Skrenes, Mark Evanier, and Bill Mantlo.

The final episode of the newspaper strip was published on October 29, 1978. Issue #31 (May 1979) of the comic-book series announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic. Marvel then relaunched the series that year as a bimonthly black and white magazine, with scripts by Mantlo, art by Colan and Michael Golden and unrelated backup features by others. The magazine was canceled after nine issues.

On August 29, 1980, after learning of Marvel's efforts to license Howard for use in film and broadcast media, Steve Gerber filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marvel corporate parent Cadence Industries and other parties, alleging that he was the sole owner of the character.[15][16] This was one of the first highly publicized creator's rights cases in American comics, and attracted support from major industry figures, some of whom created homage/parody stories with Gerber to fund a lawsuit against Marvel; these included Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby.[17] The lawsuit was settled on September 24, 1982, with Gerber acknowledging that his work on the character was done as work-for-hire and that Marvel parent Cadence Industries owned "all right, title and interest" to Howard the Duck and the Howard material he had produced. On November 5, 1982, Judge David Kenyon approved the motion and dismissed the case.[15][16][17]

The only new story featuring the character between 1981 and 1986 appeared in Bizarre Adventures #34 (1983) Scripted by Steven Grant, it featured a suicidal Howard being put through a parody of It's a Wonderful Life.

The original comic book series reappeared with issue #32 (January 1986). It featured a story that had been written by Grant four years earlier.[17] Steve Gerber had submitted a script for the issue, but withdrew it after it had been revised to conform to editorial guidelines.[15][16] Issue #33 (October 1986), scripted by Christopher Stager, featured a parody of the film Bride of Frankenstein. Howard co-creator Val Mayerik co-plotted the story and provided the art. It was released alongside an adaptation of the Howard the Duck feature film, which was published in Marvel Super Special #41 (November 1986) and a three-issue comic-book series.

Gerber returned to Howard in 1989 in The Sensational She-Hulk #14–17. The character was again living with Beverly Switzler, now working as a rent-a-ninja. How they got back together was never explained. Beverly was not involved in the story, in which She-Hulk takes Howard on a trip through several dimensions with a theoretical physicist from Empire State University.

Gerber's next story featuring Howard appeared in Spider-Man Team-Up #5 (December 1996), around the same time he was writing a "Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck" crossover for Image. He had the idea to create an unofficial crossover between the two issues, where the characters would meet momentarily in the shadows, but which would not affect either story. Soon after, Gerber discovered that Howard was scheduled to appear in Ghost Rider vol. 3, #81 (Jan. 1997) alongside Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy, and issues of Generation X, as well as the three issue Daydreamers miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis. Gerber was not pleased with this development, and changed the "unofficial crossover" somewhat.[18]

In Spider-Man Team-Up #5, Spider-Man, Beverly and Howard meet the Elf with a Gun and two shadowy figures (presumed to be Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck) in a darkened warehouse, grab a disc, then leave shortly afterwards. But in the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck crossover comic, Elf with a Gun creates thousands of clones of Howard and Beverly during a fierce battle. As Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck escape the warehouse, they reveal that they rescued the "real" Howard and Beverly, while Spider-Man left with two of the clones. Howard has his feathers dyed green, and is renamed "Leonard the Duck", and Beverly has her hair dyed black and is renamed "Rhonda Martini". Leonard later had a cameo appearance in Savage Dragon #41, and Leonard and Rhonda have a single-panel cameo when they meet Gerber's Nevada in Vertigo Comics' Winter's Edge #2.

In 2001, when Marvel launched its MAX imprint of "mature readers" comics, Gerber returned to write a six-issue Howard the Duck miniseries illustrated by Phil Winslade and Glenn Fabry. Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures, but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier. The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form, principally into a mouse (as a parody of Mickey Mouse, in retaliation for the Disney-mandated redesign), and entering a chain of events parodying comics such as Witchblade, Preacher and several others, with Howard ultimately having a conversation with God in Hell.

Howard had cameo appearances in She-Hulk (vol. 2) #9 in February 2005 and in She-Hulk vol. 3 #3/#100 in February 2006 (issue #3 was also the numbered as the 100th total issue of all the various She-Hulk series). In 2007, he returned in Howard the Duck vol. 4 #1-4, a miniseries by writer Ty Templeton and artist Juan Bobillo. This series was rated for ages 9 and up, though one issue was published with a Marvel Zombies tie-in cover with a parental advisory claim.

In November 2014, Marvel announced an ongoing series starting in March 2015 featuring Howard as a private investigator on Earth. The creative team consisted of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones.[19] Howard the Duck (vol. 5) ran for 5 issues before Marvel relaunched many of their existing titles with the All-New, All-Different Marvel line of comics. This led to a reboot produced by the same creative team starting with Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #1 in November 2015.[20] This series included a two-part crossover with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.[21] The 11th and last issue was released in October 2016.[22]

Fictional character biography

Howard's first appearance in comics is when he is abruptly abducted from his home planet by an unseen force and randomly dropped into the Florida Everglades by the demon-lord Thog the Nether-Spawn. He meets the Man-Thing, who had been attacked by Korrek of Katharta, and the three of them are confronted by warriors of the Congress of Realities.[23] He then meets Dakimh the Enchanter and Dakimh banishes the warriors and transports Howard, Man-Thing, and Korrek to his castle, where they are joined by Jennifer Kale. They then travel to the realm of Therea and destroy Thog the Nether-Spawn. Howard then accidentally falls off the inter-dimensional stepping stones that the group were traveling on[24] and materializes in Cleveland, Ohio, where he battles Garko the Man-Frog.[25] Howard is arrested at this time for disturbing the peace and is mistaken for a mutant during a strip search, but is released because the police fear he has mutant abilities. Howard also briefly encounters and kills a vampiric cow named Bessie the Hellcow.[26]

Howard makes friends with an artists' model named Beverly Switzler and a bizarre series of encounters follow. He battles Pro-Rata, the cosmic accountant, then meets Spider-Man at the end of the battle.[27][28] He battles Turnip-Man and the Kidney Lady,[29] who would become a semi-recurring character over the years,[citation needed] then learns the fictional martial art of "Quack-Fu".[30] Howard then encounters the Winky Man, who is actually the sleepwalking alter-ego of Beverly's artist friend, Paul Same,[31] who would become a series regular and later become the pair's roommate.[citation needed] Howard also briefly becomes a wrestler.[32]

Howard and Beverly hit the road, seeking shelter in a gothic mansion where they battle a girl named Patsy and her giant, animated-to-life gingerbread man.[33][34] They eventually end up in New York City, where Howard is nominated for President of the United States by the All-Night Party[34] and he later battles the Band of the Bland, alongside the Defenders.[35] A doctored-photo scandal leads him to Canada where he defeats a supervillain, the Beaver, who caused the scandal. The Beaver falls to his death in a battle with Howard.[36] Howard then suffers a nervous breakdown and flees Bev and their situation on a bus. Unfortunately, the bus' passengers are all believers in various weird cults, and try to interest Howard in them. His seatmates are Winda Wester and the Kidney Lady, a woman who believes that the soul of a person lives in their kidneys and attempts to stop anything she sees as "anti-kidney health." After the bus crashes, Howard and Winda are sent to a mental institution. There he meets Daimon Hellstrom, and is briefly possessed by Hellstrom's demonic soul, becoming the new Son of Satan.[37] Beverly and Paul manage to get them both back to Cleveland. Later, while on the S. S. Damned, a cruise ship returning from scenic Bagmom, Howard and Beverly are taken captive by Lester Verde. Verde had known Beverly in college and had a crush on her and had assumed the identity of the supervillain Doctor Bong,[38] who illegally marries Beverly against her will and transforms Howard into a human.[39][40]

After escaping back to New York and being restored to his natural form, Howard is hired as a dishwasher by Beverly's uncle, Lee Switzler. Howard is later reunited with Dakihm the Enchanter, the Man-Thing, Korrek and Jennifer Kale, and they all battle the demon Bzzk'Joh. Korrek pilots the ship the Epoch Weasel and drops Howard back off at Cleveland before he and their allies fly away.[41][42] Howard finally meets up with the cruise ship that rescued Paul and Winda from Doctor Bong, and finds that Paul and Winda have befriended socialite Iris Raritan.

Howard is later kidnapped by the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime. Winda is abandoned by Paul and Iris and Paul is shot and left in a coma.[43][44] After defeating the Circus of Crime, Howard is plagued by pessimistic dreams and goes his way alone, just as he had at the series' beginning.[45]

Writer Bill Mantlo, beginning with issue #30, returned the series to its former status quo, bringing Beverly back into the picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong. Howard's creator Steve Gerber, who left the series after issue #27, originally intended for Beverly and Bong's marriage to be lasting and for Beverly to be written out of the series from that point on. Howard and Beverly's friend Paul, who had ended up in a coma after he had previously been shot by the Ringmaster, awakens from his coma and is released from the hospital. Beverly's uncle Lee brings everyone back to Cleveland and employs Howard as a cab driver, while Paul, back to being a somnambulist after his release from the hospital, becomes Winda's boyfriend. Howard dons a suit of "Iron Duck" armor made by Claude Starkowitz, a man who has delusions of being related to Tony Stark and dreams of being the personal armorer to Iron Man, and battles Doctor Bong in the final issue of the original 70s Howard the Duck series (issue #31).[46][47] Howard later encounters Dracula[48] and even once returns to Duckworld.[49] At the end of the nine-issue magazine series, Howard leaves Beverly (at her request) and is later offered a genetically-constructed female duck mate, whom he does not take to.[50]

On a later occasion, She-Hulk accidentally pulls Howard though a cosmic wormhole along with theoretical physicist Brent Wilcox and they are able to prevent other universes from crowding out Earth-616. During this time, Howard meets a character called the Critic, travels to a dimension known as the Baloneyverse and again battles a group called the Band of the Bland, whom he had previously battled with the Defenders.[51][52][53]

In an encounter with Peter Parker and Ben Reilly (the then-current Spider-Man), Howard gets a rematch with the Circus of Crime and the Circus is defeated. During the fight, Howard and Beverly get stuck in a warehouse full of anthropomorphic ducks, briefly meeting the Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck. Parker and Reilly leave the warehouse believing that they have the correct versions of Howard and Beverly with them. However, in the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck companion story that takes place simultaneously and that was written by Gerber, it is explained that the version of Howard and Beverly that left the warehouse with Parker and Reilly are simply clones taken by mistake and that the real Howard and Beverly actually left the scene with Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck.[54]

The sorceress Jennifer Kale, in a weekly attempt to return Howard to his home world, inadvertently teleports Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy into her New York apartment. The disoriented dinosaur attempts to eat Howard, but spits him out when shot with Johnny Blaze's hellfire gun. Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy then rampage through the city before being subdued by Ghost Rider (Daniel Ketch). Howard says that he relates to the pair being trapped in a world they never made before wandering off.[55][56]

Heroes Reborn

After a brief series of adventures with Generation X,[57] Howard gets a job as a department store Santa Claus, which gets him dragged to the North Pole where the real Santa Claus has sold out to HYDRA.[58] Howard goes through several dimensions, apparently through the power of Man-Thing, who can now talk but does not understand this new, unknown ability, and lands on a version of Duckworld where his parents are essentially Ward and June Cleaver, he has a sister named Princess, and he is regarded as a hero because his activities on Earth-616 were recognized by Duckworld's version of Reed Richards. This origin traces the source of these dimensions to be projections from Franklin's mind. Throughout the course of the adventure, Howard has a romance with Tana Nile, culminating in a kiss, after which he apologizes and tells her of his attachment to Beverly.[59][60][61] When Franklin understands that he has shaped all of these worlds, the group finds themselves back in the Man-Thing's swamp. While Man-Thing becomes a self-appointed guardian to Franklin Richards, Howard goes off on his own and is captured by the Cult of Entropy, who wrap him in swaddling clothes.[62] Although last seen in the swamp, Howard states that he was thrown into baggage and transported on a plane. The cult wants Howard because he has part of the Nexus of All Realities, which shattered during Heroes Reborn, inside of him. Man-Thing then enters Howard's mouth, and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment, but Man-Thing is left desiccated and practically dead.[63] Howard then encounters Namor, who thought he had slain Man-Thing, but Howard explains that he would not be lugging his friend's body around if that were the case. Howard sets the Man-Thing down in the water, and he revives during Howard's conversation with Namor. Once he sees that the Man-Thing is alive and well, he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland.[64]

Years later, back with Beverly, he undergoes further shapeshifting experiences after an accident at a chemical facility of Doctor Bong's. Beverly is hired by Bong's Globally Branded Content Corporation, which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men. Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in, Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat, which changes him, unstably, into a rat.[65] When Howard later showers, he changes his form multiple times before again permanently returning to the form of the giant rat. Verde then goes to the press and claims that his building was attacked by Osama el-Barka ("Osama the Duck" in Arabic). Howard and Beverly are sent back on the road after the junkyard office where they are living is destroyed by a S.W.A.T. team.[66] Denied admittance to every possible shelter due to lack of funds, the pair and their dog find a sign for the Boarding House of Mystery, but are taken to the police station for questioning and strip searches by Suzy Pazuzu, with whom Beverly had attended high school. One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before. Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade, which starts to take her over when she wears an enchanted bracelet. In a skirmish, the bracelet is caught by Howard causing him to be the wielder of the doucheblade. The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade, and, possessed by this, Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy's house.[67]

Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery, Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel, the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity. There, they are granted their every wish, including Howard's return to his true form, and Beverly never being poor again, and meet parodies of John Constantine, Wesley Dodds, the Endless, Spider Jerusalem, and Gerber's own Nevada (called Utah), all characters from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The downside to the House is that everyone staying there gets their every wish; so Che Guevara can have his revolution, but someone else can easily slaughter him.[68] One tenant, a writer named Mr. Gommorah (a parody of Spider Jerusalem), later takes Beverly and Howard to be on the Iprah show with the topic "Why Women Give It to Men Who Don't Get It", guest starring Dr. Phlip.

Upon leaving the House of Mystery, Howard is once again transformed into an anthropomorphic mouse. It is revealed that Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy, intended to replace God, because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since 1938. Deuteronomy is a creature half-id and half-superego, while Iprah is an all-ego promoter of self-indulgent pop psychology. Considering her dangerous, Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud, whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher's brains (being immortal, this just makes him act drunk). Iprah destroys Freud, but Howard blasts her with the cigar, separating her from Deuteronomy. Puffing on the cigar, Howard disintegrates and arrives in Hell.[69] He is eventually freed by Yah, a being who claims to be "God".[70]

Civil War

Sometime later, Howard attempts to register under the Superhero Registration Act during the superhero Civil War, but learns his socially disrupted life has created so many bureaucratic headaches that the government's official policy is that Howard does not exist. This lack of government oversight delights him: "For the rest of my life, no more parking tickets, or taxes, or jury duty. Heck, I couldn't even vote if I wanted to!" In this story, Howard says he was pressured to give up his cigars.[71]

After he defeats the supervillain M.O.D.O.T.’s (Mobile Organism Designed Only for Talking) scheme to control the public through mass media, his attorney, Jennifer Walters, successfully restores his citizenship, including all relevant responsibilities.[72]

Secret Invasion

Howard the Duck is briefly seen as part of the superpowered army gathered to battle invading Skrull forces.[73] He is seen armed with a pistol and wearing a Skrull's hand around his neck.[74] He is later seen kicking a Skrull during interrogation after the invasion.[75] Brian Michael Bendis has commented when asked of Howard: "That character has shown up in six issues I've done, and I've never typed the words Howard the Duck."[76]

Marvel Zombies 5

Main article: Marvel Zombies 5

In Marvel Zombies 5, Howard the Duck of Earth-616 teams up with Machine Man to travel across the multiverse fighting zombies.[77]

Fear Itself

During the Fear Itself storyline, Howard forms a team called the Fearsome Four with She-Hulk, Frankenstein's Monster and Nighthawk to stop the Man-Thing when he goes on a rampage in Manhattan, due to the fear and chaos he senses on the citizens. They later discover a plot by Psycho-Man to use the Man-Thing's volatile empathy to create a weapon.[78]

Spider-Man: Back in Quack

Howard and Beverly are brainwashed and forced to work for Save Our Offspring From Indecency (S.O.O.F.I.) as Cynical Duck and Swizzle. They promote S.O.O.F.I. at a public speech held for them by J. Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man later interrupts a S.O.O.F.I. indoctrination at the New York Public Library, and Beverly and the other S.O.O.F.I.s see Spidey as a semi-demonic figure and attack him. Spidey escapes with Howard and breaks his brainwashing when Beverly is threatened. Howard quickly explains S.O.O.F.I.'s goals to Spider-Man. As Spider-Man publicly announces his long-standing support for S.O.O.F.I., Howard confronts Bev as she stands beside the Supreme S.O.O.F.I. Howard is able to break through to Beverly, reminding her of their past together. The Supreme S.O.O.F.I. orders the S.O.O.F.I.s to throw the pair into the special Blanditron at Guantanamo Bay, but Beverly keeps them at bay with a whip. Spidey attacks the S.O.O.F.I.s and unmasks the Supreme S.O.O.F.I., while the others escape through their teleporter. Howard states that he believes S.O.O.F.I. will lay low for a while after such a defeat and he also hopes that the group's Florida Everglades base might lead them to meet up with the Man-Thing.[79]

The Ducky Dozen

Because of his experience with zombie-infested worlds and his leadership of Machine Man, Howard is chosen as the leader of, as he dubs them, the Ducky Dozen. The team is composed of him, several Golden Age heroes, Dum-Dum Dugan, and Battlestar, who is also a veteran of a zombie incident. Upon entering Earth-12591, the Ducky Dozen fight hordes of zombie Nazis and Asgardians, but suffer grave losses as the team's members are either killed or zombified during the battle. After successfully accomplishing their mission, Howard, Dugan, Taxi Taylor and Battlestar are the only members to survive and return to Earth-616 along with the Riveter, the only survivor of Earth-12591's resistance team, the Suffragists.[80][81]

Wolverine and the X-Men

Howard later teams up with his friend Doop to battle the Robo-Barbarians in Dimension ZZZ. They beat the horde back with nothing but a broken sword, a rubber chicken with nails in it and a gun that shoots bees.[82]

Original Sin

After the death of Uatu the Watcher and the activation of the secrets buried in his eye, Howard discovers that he has the potential to be the most intelligent being in Duckworld. After evading a squirrel while driving, he is thrown flying from his vehicle but uses his intellect to calculate a way to land safely in a nearby dumpster.[83]

Back to New York

Howard returns to his business as a private eye, working in the same building as She-Hulk, in Brooklyn. One of his first new clients is Jonathan Richards, who hires Howard to retrieve a necklace stolen by the Black Cat. With the help of Tara Tam, his new friend and assistant, Howard manages to recover the necklace. However, on his way to give it back to Richards, he finds himself kidnapped by the Collector and allied with the Guardians of the Galaxy to escape the villain, who was attempting to add Howard to his collection of rare space objects and entities. Upon returning to Earth, Howard is robbed by May Parker, Spider-Man's aunt, and later re-encounters the Ringmaster, who is revealed to have brainwashed the elderly into committing robberies. After recovering the necklace for a third time, Howard is approached by Richards in the middle of his fight against the Ringmaster and Richards reveals himself to be Talos the Untamed, who reveals that the necklace was part of a marginally powerful item known as the Abundant Glove. With help from Doctor Strange, Howard and Tara locate the final piece of the Abundant Glove, but are unable to put it back together when Talos grabs it and proceeds to use it to wreak havoc on the city. Talos is confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara take cover. Howard is able to point out that Tara, who is revealed to possess shapeshifting powers similar to that of a Skrull, could help him defeat Talos. Tara used her powers to impersonate Skrull Emperor Kl'rt (the Super-Skrull), distracting Talos long enough for Howard to snatch the Abundant Glove from his hand. Talos is later apprehended by the Fantastic Four and everything returns to normal.[84]

Afterwards, with the help of new arrival Gwenpool, Howard prevented HYDRA from infecting the world with a deadly virus.[85] He also has a crossover event with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.[86] Howard the Duck is shown to be living in the She-Hulk's apartment building when Patsy Walker moved out.[87]

Civil War II

During the Civil War II storyline, Howard the Duck is among the building tenants that learn from Patsy Walker what happened to She-Hulk following the fight against Thanos.[88]

War of the Realms

Howards last name, Duckson, is revealed in War of the Realms: War Scrolls #1.

Powers and abilities

Howard has no superhuman powers, but he is skilled in the martial art known as Quak-Fu, enough to defeat, or at least to hold his own against, far larger opponents. He has shown some degree of mystic talent in the past, to the point that Stephen Strange taught some spells to Howard and even offered to train him, but Howard declined.[35]

On one occasion, Howard used a suit of powered armor known as the "Iron Duck" armor designed by Claude Starkowitz. Besides its property as body armor, the suit was equipped with foot-mounted leaping coils, a chest-mounted searchlight, and flamethrowers in both arms.[46]

Characteristics and associations

Howard the Duck is a three-foot-tall anthropomorphic duck. He generally wears a tie and shirt and is almost always found smoking a cigar. Originally, like many cartoon ducks, he wore no pants; Disney threatened legal action due to Howard's resemblance to Donald Duck,[89] and Marvel redesigned that aspect of the character by writing into the script that Howard was the target of anti-nudity protests, and was forced to do business with "Wally Sidney", a failed cartoonist who made his fortune through a chain of conservative clothing retailers known as "Sidney World". Howard tries on various outfits, including ones akin to Donald Duck's sailor uniform and Uncle Scrooge's coat and top hat, before settling on his new attire of a business suit complete with trousers. Although Howard sulks that he has lost, Beverly reassures him that she does not want him to be a victim of a mob, and loves him no matter what he wears.[90]

Howard has an irritable and cynical attitude towards the often bizarre events around him; he feels there is nothing special about him except that he is a duck, and though he has no goals other than seeking comfort and to be left alone, he is often dragged into dangerous adventures simply because he is visibly unusual. His series' tagline, "Trapped in a world he never made", played off the genre trappings of 1950s science fiction.

His near-constant companion and occasional girlfriend is former art model and Cleveland native Beverly Switzler. Like Howard, Beverly wants an ordinary life but is frequently singled out for her appearance, though as a beautiful woman rather than a duck. His other friends include Paul Same (a painter who briefly became a sleepwalking crime-fighter named the Winky Man), Winda Wester (a lisping ingénue with psychic powers), and country music singer Dreyfus Gultch. Howard has worked with Spider-Man and the Man-Thing on various occasions.

Howard found himself on Earth due to a shift in the "Cosmic Axis" from a world similar to Earth, but where there are "more ducks" and "apes don't talk." In the black-and-white Howard the Duck magazine series, writer Bill Mantlo theorized that Howard came from an extra-dimensional planet called Duckworld, a planet similar to Earth where ducks, not apes, had evolved to become the dominant species. In 2001, Gerber dismissed this idea, calling it "very pedestrian" and 'comic-booky' — in the worst sense of the term." Gerber stated that Howard came from an alternate Earth populated by a variety of anthropomorphic animals and not Duckworld.[91] A panel in Fear #19, prior to Howard's introduction, depicts Howard or someone like him near an anthropomorphic mouse and an anthropomorphic dog, in a panel about hypothetical other dimensions. Gerber later depicted his character Destroyer Duck as existing in such a world.

His antagonists (who usually appear in a single story each) are often parodies of science fiction, fantasy, or horror characters, as well as frequent parodies of political figures and organizations. The chief recurring villain, Lester Verde, better known as Doctor Bong – modeled on Doctor Doom and writers Bob Greene and Lester Bangs – is a former tabloid reporter who has the power to "reorder reality" by smashing himself on the bell-shaped helmet on his head and his main goal is to marry Beverly. Beverly eventually agreed to marry him to save Howard from Bong's evil experimentation, but the two were divorced shortly thereafter. Doctor Bong would reappear in issues of She-Hulk and Deadpool in the mid-1990s. Other recurring villains include the Kidney Lady, an older woman who has been convinced by her former lover that the soul is in the kidneys and attacks anything she sees as a threat to them, and Reverend Jun Moon Yuc and his Yuccies, a parody of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church ("Moonies"). Another important villain was the organization S.O.O.F.I. (Save Our Offspring From Indecency), whose leader was implied to be Anita Bryant, though she looked like an old, fat Elvis Presley with a smiley face/orange on her head.

Other Marvel Comics characters occasionally appeared with Howard, including Spider-Man, the Son of Satan and the Ringmaster. Omega the Unknown appeared to him in a dream, as did Spider-Man and the founding members of the rock group Kiss on other occasions.

Seemingly an autodidact, Howard at various times references Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Albert Camus (whose novel The Stranger Gerber considers the principal influence on the comic series),[92] the Brontë sisters, and other figures of philosophical and political significance. In a parody of the Marvel comic character Shang-Chi, Howard was trained in the martial art of Quak-Fu. In the 2001 miniseries, as a mocking gesture toward Disney's mascot Mickey Mouse and as a reference to a previous lawsuit with the company over Howard's similarity to Donald Duck, Howard was turned into various other animals, but primarily appeared in the series as an anthropomorphic mouse.[93]

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

In the Amalgam Comics universe, Howard the Duck is fused with Lobo to become Lobo the Duck. This character is featured in its own one-shot comic book which (like almost all of the other Amalgam Comics) "falsely" implied that the one-shot was a continuation of multiple other, pre-existing Lobo The Duck stories.[94]

In the letters page of Bat-Thing #1, there was mention of a fictional upcoming 'special issue' featuring Howard the Mxyzptlk, presumably a merging of Howard with Mister Mxyzptlk.[95]

Marvel Zombies

An alternate version of Howard the Duck becomes infected with the zombie plague, and eats the brains of the alternate-Ash that is native to the zombie version of the Marvel Universe. He is swiftly slain by the Scarlet Witch and the original Ash Williams of the Evil Dead series.[96][97]

MC2

In the Marvel Comics 2 universe, Howard is seen as a blindfold-wearing martial arts teacher, a reference harkening back to his mastery of "Quack Fu" in the original 1970s series.[98]

Ultimate Marvel

In the miniseries Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars, a billboard advertising for "HDTV" is seen in the first panel, showing Howard.[99]

Universe X

  • While Howard does not appear, the Beast says, "I still feel badly about Howard," who had been "hunted down and consumed."[100]
  • In the original draft for Earth X, Howard was supposedly served as a feast during the Skull's invasion of New York City. The scene was cut due to space constraints.[101]

Spider-Gwen

On Earth-65 in the Spider-Gwen series, a human named Howard T. Duck is the President of the United States.[102]

Legion of Howards

In a parody of the Spider-Verse event, Howard and Leo Fitz team up with a group of Howards from across the Multiverse who collectively call themselves the Legion of Howards.[103] Their ranks include:

  • Howard the Duck - A version of Howard who wields Mjolnir and possesses the power of Thor.
  • Sister Howard the Duck - A female version of Howard who is a nun on her world.
  • Howard the Roboduck - A Japanese-style giant mecha piloted by an alternate version of Beverly Switzler.
  • The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Howard the Duck - A version of Howard who possesses the abilities and appearance of the Thing.
  • Strange-Duck - A mystical version of Howard who acts as his world's Sorcerer Supreme.

In other media

Film

Lucasfilm and Universal Pictures produced the 1986 film Howard the Duck, in which the eponymous character is voiced by Chip Zien and performed by an assortment of stunt actors in a duck suit ranging from Peter Baird, Ed Gale, Jordan Prentice, Tim Rose, Steve Sleap, Lisa Sturz, and Mary Wells. This version of Howard is brought to Cleveland by a laser spectroscope experiment gone awry and befriends rock singer Beverly Switzler.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Howard the Duck makes cameo appearances in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, voiced by Seth Green.

Plans have also occurred for Howard the Duck to star in his own film. In 2016, Rob Zombie claimed that he had pitched a Howard the Duck film to Marvel, but was turned down.[114] After a rumor in June 2017 incorrectly stated that Marvel Studios was developing a film based Howard the Duck that would involve Gunn as a producer, Gunn confirmed that September that a film for the character was not being made. He said that while there were several comics characters he loved, he was "not making films of them all".[115] In June 2018, Lea Thompson revealed that she was preparing to meet with Marvel Studios about her pitch for a new Howard the Duck film she wanted to direct, after previously starring in the 1986 film as Beverly Switzler.[116] Thompson had developed the pitch to be set in the MCU, and worked on it "for a really long time" with modern Howard the Duck comic book writers Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones, who had included her as a character in one of their comic runs. That September, Thompson said Marvel Studios loved her pitch, but told her they had no plans for a Howard the Duck film and they would contact her again following the development of their MCU television series on Disney+.[117] Thompson expressed further interest in directing an MCU reboot for the character following his appearance in What If...?.[118]

Television

  • Howard the Duck makes a cameo appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Awesome", voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.[119] Spider-Man finds him contained in a lab on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.
    • Additionally, an alternate reality pirate version of Howard appears in the episode "Return to the Spider-Verse" Pt. 2, voiced by Seth Green.[120] He previously served as the pirate captain Web Beard's first mate aboard the pirate ship Groot before joining the crew in launching a mutiny. They attempt to make Web Beard and a multiverse-traveling Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid walk the plank, but a Kraken attacks the Groot. In response, Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid convince the pirates to reconcile and join forces to drive off the monster. Following this, the crew agree to serve under Web Beard once more.
  • Howard the Duck makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. episode "The Collector", as one of the eponymous character's prisoners.
  • Howard the Duck appears in Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced again by Seth Green.[121] This version is an old acquaintance of Rocket Raccoon. In the episode "Lyin' Eyes", Rocket and Drax the Destroyer find Howard reading a newspaper in a display case at a Knowhere auction house. In the episode "Happy Together", as part of a deal with the Collector, Howard hires the Guardians of the Galaxy to obtain a Kree item. While making the exchange, Phyla-Vell attacks the Guardians while Howard escapes to give the item to the Collector in exchange for seeing the outside of his ship. In the episode "Long Distance Runaround", the Guardians find and apprehend Howard, who confesses to setting them up and reveals the Collector betrayed him. The Collector sabotages the Guardians' starship, the Milano, to manipulate them into leading him to the Kree homeworld, Hala, so he can shrink it. However, Howard places a tracker on the Collector's ship for the Guardians so they can follow him. In the episode "With a Little Help From My Friends", Star-Lord recruits Howard to help him fight the Serpent.
  • Hulu intended to air a Howard the Duck animated series to be written and executive produced by Kevin Smith and Dave Willis which would have led up to a crossover special involving MODOK, Hit-Monkey, Tigra, and Dazzler called The Offenders.[122] However, in January 2020, it was announced that the Howard the Duck series, along with Tigra & Dazzler were cancelled.[123]

Video games

Theme park

Howard the Duck makes a vocal cameo in the Disney California Adventure attraction Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!, voiced again by Seth Green.[130] He mocks the Collector's misfortune over an intercom following the latter's creatures and the Guardians of the Galaxy escaping his collection. In addition, Howard can briefly be seen in the background of the Collector's welcome video in the attraction's queue.[131]

Other comics

  • In Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck #1 (Nov. 1996), Gerber claims that Howard and Beverly Switzler changed their names to Leonard the Duck and Rhonda Martini, remained in the Image Comics Universe, and "were last sighted in Chicago boarding the Amtrak for Buffalo" while the duck who returned to Marvel is "only an empty trademark, a clone whose soul departed him at the corner of Floss and Regret."[132] This was done because Tom Brevoort invited Gerber to write the comic, claiming he was the only one to write Howard, then Gerber noticed the Howard guest appearances in Ghost Rider and Generation X and felt as though he had been tricked.[18]
  • In the Don Simpson's Megaton Man feature, a comedy relief character is Gower Goose, an intended parody of Howard.[133]
  • In the Claypool Comics series Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Gordon the Goose (clearly modelled on Howard) appears, together with Dorkheem the Sorcerer and the Heap-Thing, in issues #49, 58, and 59.
  • In America's Best Comics' Top 10 #8 a duck appearing to be Howard (with his distinctive blue hat & jacket) can be seen at the Transworld Transport Terminus.
  • In several issues of The Maxx, Howard appears, along with many other characters, seemingly cut and pasted into the story.
  • In Adam Beechen's ending of Doctor Fate: More Pain Comics, which Gerber left unfinished when he died, Howard, who is heard but unseen (his speech balloon ends with "waaugh"), dispatched the Elf with a Gun to destroy Negal and Ymp, then invited for one last drink with Yah, Bev, Thunny, and Megs before Yah goes back "upstairs."[134]
  • He is also seen being roasted in one of the Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe issues, where the reporter states that Deadpool has gone into a killing spree, looking for heroes and villains alike, and also some characters that were never too special to begin with.[volume & issue needed]

Newspaper comic strip

Between June 6, 1977 and October 29, 1978, Howard the Duck appeared in a syndicated daily comic strip that comic strip historian Allan Holtz has described as having low distribution and that was eventually replaced by the Incredible Hulk comic strip.[135] The strip was syndicated in almost 70 newspapers[136] (by the Register and Tribune Syndicate), including the Toronto Star and Spokane Daily Chronicle. When the strip was dropped by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a Cleveland TV station began televising the strip for two minutes each night.[136]

A total of eleven story arcs, as well as a number of single-joke strips, constitute the 511 individual strips that were printed.[137]

The strip started with original stories written by Steve Gerber and illustrated by Gene Colan: "Pop Syke -- The Consciousness of Success", "The Cult of Entropy" and "Fred Feenix the Self-Made Man". The latter was started by Colan and completed by Val Mayerik, who stayed on to do two additional Gerber-scripted stories: "The Sleigh Jacking" and "In Search of the Good Life".[138]

These were followed by an adaptation of the "Sleep of the Just" story from issue #4 of the Marvel comic, scripted by Gerber and illustrated by Alan Kupperberg. Gerber was fired from the strip in early 1978 over chronic problems with deadlines.[14] He was replaced by Marv Wolfman as writer, while Alan Kupperberg continued as artist. The remaining stories were: "Close Encounters of the Fowl Kind", "The Tuesday Ruby", "The Clone Ranger", "Bye Bye, Beverly" and "The Mystery of the Maltese Human".[138] As the series drew to an end, its already meager list of client papers shrank, making copies of these last post-Gerber stories particularly hard to find.

In November 1978, the first of a projected eight-issue series reprinting the entire strip was published by John Zawadzki. Titled It's Adventure Time With...Howard the Duck, only the initial issue was published.[139]

Radio

In 1980, a pilot for a radio show version of Howard was recorded. James Belushi played the role of Howard, although the program was never aired.[140]

Collected editions

Title Material collected Published date ISBN
Essential Howard the Duck Fear #19, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5, Howard The Duck (vol. 1) #1–27, Howard The Duck Annual #1, and Marvel Treasury Edition #12 March 2002 978-0785108313
Howard the Duck Omnibus Fear #19, Man-Thing #1, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5, Howard the Duck (vol. 1) #1–33, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and Marvel Team-Up #96 August 2008 978-0785130239
Marvel Masterworks: Howard the Duck Vol. 1 Fear #19, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5, Man-Thing #1, Howard The Duck (vol. 1) #1–14, Marvel Treasury Edition #12 and Foom #15 March 2021 978-1302922160
Marvel Masterworks: Howard the Duck Vol. 2 Howard the Duck (vol. 1) #15–31 and Howard The Duck Annual #1 March 2023 978-1302949273
Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 Fear #19, Man-Thing #1, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5, Howard the Duck (vol. 1) #1–16, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and Howard the Duck Annual #1 June 2015 978-0785197768
Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection Vol. 2 Howard the Duck (vol. 1) #17–31 and Howard the Duck (vol. 2) magazine #1 March 2016 978-0785196860
Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection Vol. 3 Howard the Duck (vol. 2) magazine #2–7 and material from Crazy #59, 63, and 65 August 2016 978-1302902049
Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection Vol. 4 Howard the Duck (vol. 2) magazine #8–9, Marvel Team-Up #96, Howard the Duck vol. 1 #32-33, Sensational She-Hulk #14-17, and material from Bizarre Adventures #34, Marvel Tales #237, Spider-Man Team-Up #5 October 2017 978-1302908607
Howard the Duck Howard the Duck (vol. 3) #1–6 September 2002 978-0785109310
Howard the Duck: Media Duckling Howard the Duck (vol. 4) #1–4 April 2008 978-0785127765
Spider-Man: Animal Magnetism Spider-Man: Back in Quack and Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special, Ultimate Civil War Spider-Ham and Top Dog #10 February 2011 978-0785151937
Howard the Duck Vol. 0: What the Duck Howard the Duck (vol. 5) #1–5 October 2015 978-0785197720
Howard the Duck Vol. 1: Duck Hunt Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #1-6 and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (vol. 2) #6 June 2016 978-0785199380
Howard the Duck Vol. 2: Good Night, and Good Duck Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #7-11 November 2016 978-0785199397
Howard the Duck by Zdarsky & Quinones Omnibus Howard the Duck (vol. 5) #1–5, Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #1-11, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (vol. 2) #6, and material from War of the Realms: War Scrolls #1 November 2021 978-1302932015

Alternate versions

Title Material collected Published date ISBN
Secret Wars Journal/Battleworld Howard the Human #1 and Secret Wars Journal #1-5, Secret Wars: Battleworld #1-4 and Secret Wars: Agents of Atlas #1 March 2016 978-0785195801
Deadpool the Duck Deadpool the Duck #1-5 May 2017 978-1846538018

Reception

Michael Burkett of the Orange County Register described Howard the Duck as a "cantankerous, stogie-chomping, nattily dressed" antihero with an "acerbic wit, irascible personality and down-and-dirty street smarts" that distinguished him from other cartoon animal characters. Burkett likened Howard to "Donald Duck cross-bred with Groucho Marx and Jean-Paul Sartre." He wrote that Howard's "cult-worshipped" 1970s comic book series brought the "surrealism, social commentary, political satire and what-the-hell-am-I-doing-here philosophy" of 1960s "underground comics" into the mainstream.[141] The New Yorker said Howard believed in "mainstream social Darwinism" and was "a web-footed Eric Hoffer." Kenneth Turan of The Washington Post called Howard "an Everyman with feathers, forever shooting his mouth off, battling a gloomy reality."[136]

Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas thought that Howard, as a "funny animal" character, was inappropriate for the horror comic book in which he was introduced. He told Gerber to dispose of the character "as fast as you can." After Gerber showed Howard seemingly dying by falling into a void, Marvel's "office was flooded with letters" of protest. One fan even sent in a duck carcass to make his point. At San Diego Comic-Con, the auditorium stood up and applauded when a fan asked Thomas if Howard would ever come back. Marvel responded by bringing Howard back for more appearances and soon launching his own self-titled comic book series.[142]

Howard the Duck #1 "was the best-selling book Marvel ever had (that wasn’t based on a movie)" according to artist Frank Brunner.[143] The debut issue of his series instantly became a target of speculators and "occasionally sold for as much as $25." Comic-book dealer Jim Kovacs said he followed a delivery truck on the day of its release and "bought 900 copies right off the newsstands."[136] Marvel's circulation director Ed Shukin said he "underestimated" demand, only printing 275,000 copies, the minimum amount allowed at the time.[144] By December 1977, the issue was selling for an average price of $12.50, which comic book price guide publisher Robert Overstreet described as "the most phenomenal growth of any comic book that has been published."[136] Gerber was angry about the hoarding situation, "I felt as if the book had been sabotaged by the very people who supposedly liked the character." He suspected that the lack of availability of issue #1 eventually led to lower sales on the entire series.[10] Howard's first issue has been cited as "the first big speculative book in the collectors market" for comic books.[145]

The Howard the Duck comic book has been described as "the first successful title aimed at an older audience."[145] Former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter said that Howard "had developed some cult favorite status that extended as far as Hollywood."[146] During post-production on Star Wars, George Lucas showed issue #1 to his friends and collaborators Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, telling them, "this would make a great movie."[147] Gerber was surprised at how quickly the character attracted mainstream media attention. He was contacted for interviews by New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and others.[148]

"Precious", a song written by Chrissie Hynde for The Pretenders' first album, features the lyric "Now Howard the Duck and Mr. Stress both stayed / Trapped in a world they never made".[149] According to lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, quoted in Beat magazine, "Chrissie used to read Howard the Duck comic books and then she introduced Howard to [bassist] Pete [Farndon] and Pete was well over the top on it. He's got every Howard the Duck comic ever."[150]

After Gerber parted ways with Marvel in 1978 amid numerous legal and creative disputes, and other writers took over for him, Howard the Duck's popularity diminished rapidly. Stan Lee, Shooter and Gerber himself criticized the post-Gerber stories for their lack of substance and clever humor. Within three years of Gerber's departure, Marvel had ceased publishing new Howard the Duck material. Lucasfilm's big-budget 1986 Howard the Duck movie disappointed critics, audiences and the character's fans alike. Although Marvel has occasionally released new Howard comic books, some written by Gerber, and sometimes features the character in other media, Howard's popularity has never again approached what it was in the 1970s.[15]

In August 2009, Time listed Howard the Duck as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters."[151]

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External links

  • Howard the Duck at Marvel.com
  • Christiansen, Jeff (February 6, 2014). "Howard the Duck". The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. from the original on August 8, 2014.
  • Markstein, Don (2010). "Howard the Duck". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014.
  • Howard the Duck at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
  • Howard The Duck film trailer
  • Howard the Duck first series covers 2008-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • Howard the Duck on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki

February 11, 2023
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This article is about the character and comic book series For the film adaptation see Howard the Duck film For the video game see Howard the Duck video game Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear 19 cover dated Dec 1973 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill tempered anthropomorphic animal trapped on a human dominated Earth Echoing this the most common tagline of his comics reads Trapped In a World He Never Made Howard the DuckHoward the Duck as depicted on a variant cover of Howard the Duck 1 November 2015 Publication informationPublisherMarvel ComicsFirst appearanceAdventure into Fear 19 Dec 1973 Created bySteve Gerber writer Val Mayerik artist In story informationAlter egoHoward DucksonSpeciesDuckworldianPlace of originDuckworldTeam affiliationsCircus of CrimeDefendersAll Night PartyDaydreamersA R M O R Fearsome FourDucky DozenPartnershipsMan ThingBeverly SwitzlerNotable aliasesLeonard the Duck Howard the Human Iron Duck Agent Duck Cynical DuckAbilitiesMaster of Quack FuMinimal magic manipulationAs Iron Duck Armored suit grants Superhuman strength and durabilityFoot mounted leaping coilsChest mounted searchlightFlamethrowers in both armsHoward s adventures are generally social satires while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium The book is existentialist and its main joke according to Gerber is that there is no joke that life s most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view 1 Gloria Katz producer of the notorious ill fated 1986 movie adaptation of the comic expressed a diametrically opposed opinion of the character It s a film about a duck from outer space It s not supposed to be an existential experience 2 Howard the Duck was portrayed by Ed Gale and voiced by Chip Zien in the critically and commercially unsuccessful 1986 self titled film Starting in 2014 the character voiced by Seth Green appeared in cameos in several Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU films the Disney XD animated series Guardians of the Galaxy 2015 19 and Ultimate Spider Man 2016 with Kevin Michael Richardson and the Disney series What If 2021 Contents 1 Publication history 2 Fictional character biography 2 1 Heroes Reborn 2 2 Civil War 2 3 Secret Invasion 2 4 Marvel Zombies 5 2 5 Fear Itself 2 6 Spider Man Back in Quack 2 7 The Ducky Dozen 2 8 Wolverine and the X Men 2 9 Original Sin 2 10 Back to New York 2 11 Civil War II 2 12 War of the Realms 3 Powers and abilities 4 Characteristics and associations 5 Other versions 5 1 Amalgam Comics 5 2 Marvel Zombies 5 3 MC2 5 4 Ultimate Marvel 5 5 Universe X 5 6 Spider Gwen 5 7 Legion of Howards 6 In other media 6 1 Film 6 2 Marvel Cinematic Universe 6 3 Television 6 4 Video games 6 5 Theme park 6 6 Other comics 6 7 Newspaper comic strip 6 8 Radio 7 Collected editions 7 1 Alternate versions 8 Reception 9 References 10 External linksPublication history Edit Howard the Duck s first appearance in Adventure into Fear 19 Dec 1973 Art by penciler Val Mayerik and inker Sal Trapani Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear 19 Dec 1973 as a secondary character in that comic s Man Thing feature 3 4 He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant Size Man Thing 4 5 May and Aug 1975 confronting such bizarre horror parody characters as Garko the Man Frog and Bessie the Hellcow before acquiring his own comic book title with Howard the Duck 1 in 1976 3 5 Howard the Duck 1 Jan 1976 withseries co star Beverly Switzler in background Cover art by Frank Brunner Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series for the most part ditching the horror parodies illustrated by a variety of artists beginning with Frank Brunner For Gerber Howard was a flesh and blood duck and explained that If Wile E Coyote gets run over by a steamroller the result is a pancake flat coyote who can be expected to snap back to three dimensions within moments if Howard gets run over by a steamroller the result is blood on asphalt 1 Gene Colan became the regular penciller with issue 4 3 Gerber later said to Colan There really was almost a telepathic connection there I would see something in my mind and that is what you would draw I ve never had that experience with another artist before or since 6 Sporting the slogan Get Down America the All Night Party was a fictional political party that appeared in Gerber s Howard the Duck series during the U S Presidential campaign of 1976 7 8 and led to Howard the Duck allegedly receiving thousands of write in votes in the actual election 9 Gerber addressed questions about the campaign in the letters column of the comic book and as Mad Genius Associates sold merchandise publicizing the campaign Marvel attempted a spin off with a short lived Howard the Duck newspaper comic strip from 1977 to 1978 at first written by Gerber and drawn by Colan and Mayerik 10 later written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Alan Kupperberg 11 Gerber gained a degree of creative autonomy when he became the comic series editor in addition to his usual writing duties With issue 16 unable to meet the deadline for his regular script Gerber substituted an entire issue of text pieces and illustrations satirizing his own difficulties as a writer 12 The Walt Disney Company contacted Marvel in 1977 over concerns that the visual design of Howard infringed on their trademark for Donald Duck Marvel agreed to a redesign of the character by Disney artists A key feature of the redesign was that the character would wear pants 13 In 1978 Gerber was removed from the newspaper strip and the comic book series due to chronic problems with deadlines 14 His final issue of the comic book series was 27 September 1978 The series continued for four more issues with stories by Marv Wolfman Mary Skrenes Mark Evanier and Bill Mantlo The final episode of the newspaper strip was published on October 29 1978 Issue 31 May 1979 of the comic book series announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic Marvel then relaunched the series that year as a bimonthly black and white magazine with scripts by Mantlo art by Colan and Michael Golden and unrelated backup features by others The magazine was canceled after nine issues On August 29 1980 after learning of Marvel s efforts to license Howard for use in film and broadcast media Steve Gerber filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marvel corporate parent Cadence Industries and other parties alleging that he was the sole owner of the character 15 16 This was one of the first highly publicized creator s rights cases in American comics and attracted support from major industry figures some of whom created homage parody stories with Gerber to fund a lawsuit against Marvel these included Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby 17 The lawsuit was settled on September 24 1982 with Gerber acknowledging that his work on the character was done as work for hire and that Marvel parent Cadence Industries owned all right title and interest to Howard the Duck and the Howard material he had produced On November 5 1982 Judge David Kenyon approved the motion and dismissed the case 15 16 17 The only new story featuring the character between 1981 and 1986 appeared in Bizarre Adventures 34 1983 Scripted by Steven Grant it featured a suicidal Howard being put through a parody of It s a Wonderful Life The original comic book series reappeared with issue 32 January 1986 It featured a story that had been written by Grant four years earlier 17 Steve Gerber had submitted a script for the issue but withdrew it after it had been revised to conform to editorial guidelines 15 16 Issue 33 October 1986 scripted by Christopher Stager featured a parody of the film Bride of Frankenstein Howard co creator Val Mayerik co plotted the story and provided the art It was released alongside an adaptation of the Howard the Duck feature film which was published in Marvel Super Special 41 November 1986 and a three issue comic book series Gerber returned to Howard in 1989 in The Sensational She Hulk 14 17 The character was again living with Beverly Switzler now working as a rent a ninja How they got back together was never explained Beverly was not involved in the story in which She Hulk takes Howard on a trip through several dimensions with a theoretical physicist from Empire State University Gerber s next story featuring Howard appeared in Spider Man Team Up 5 December 1996 around the same time he was writing a Savage Dragon Destroyer Duck crossover for Image He had the idea to create an unofficial crossover between the two issues where the characters would meet momentarily in the shadows but which would not affect either story Soon after Gerber discovered that Howard was scheduled to appear in Ghost Rider vol 3 81 Jan 1997 alongside Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy and issues of Generation X as well as the three issue Daydreamers miniseries by J M DeMatteis Gerber was not pleased with this development and changed the unofficial crossover somewhat 18 In Spider Man Team Up 5 Spider Man Beverly and Howard meet the Elf with a Gun and two shadowy figures presumed to be Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck in a darkened warehouse grab a disc then leave shortly afterwards But in the Savage Dragon Destroyer Duck crossover comic Elf with a Gun creates thousands of clones of Howard and Beverly during a fierce battle As Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck escape the warehouse they reveal that they rescued the real Howard and Beverly while Spider Man left with two of the clones Howard has his feathers dyed green and is renamed Leonard the Duck and Beverly has her hair dyed black and is renamed Rhonda Martini Leonard later had a cameo appearance in Savage Dragon 41 and Leonard and Rhonda have a single panel cameo when they meet Gerber s Nevada in Vertigo Comics Winter s Edge 2 In 2001 when Marvel launched its MAX imprint of mature readers comics Gerber returned to write a six issue Howard the Duck miniseries illustrated by Phil Winslade and Glenn Fabry Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters the series like the original one parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form principally into a mouse as a parody of Mickey Mouse in retaliation for the Disney mandated redesign and entering a chain of events parodying comics such as Witchblade Preacher and several others with Howard ultimately having a conversation with God in Hell Howard had cameo appearances in She Hulk vol 2 9 in February 2005 and in She Hulk vol 3 3 100 in February 2006 issue 3 was also the numbered as the 100th total issue of all the various She Hulk series In 2007 he returned in Howard the Duck vol 4 1 4 a miniseries by writer Ty Templeton and artist Juan Bobillo This series was rated for ages 9 and up though one issue was published with a Marvel Zombies tie in cover with a parental advisory claim In November 2014 Marvel announced an ongoing series starting in March 2015 featuring Howard as a private investigator on Earth The creative team consisted of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones 19 Howard the Duck vol 5 ran for 5 issues before Marvel relaunched many of their existing titles with the All New All Different Marvel line of comics This led to a reboot produced by the same creative team starting with Howard the Duck vol 6 1 in November 2015 20 This series included a two part crossover with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 21 The 11th and last issue was released in October 2016 22 Fictional character biography EditThis section s plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise April 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message Howard s first appearance in comics is when he is abruptly abducted from his home planet by an unseen force and randomly dropped into the Florida Everglades by the demon lord Thog the Nether Spawn He meets the Man Thing who had been attacked by Korrek of Katharta and the three of them are confronted by warriors of the Congress of Realities 23 He then meets Dakimh the Enchanter and Dakimh banishes the warriors and transports Howard Man Thing and Korrek to his castle where they are joined by Jennifer Kale They then travel to the realm of Therea and destroy Thog the Nether Spawn Howard then accidentally falls off the inter dimensional stepping stones that the group were traveling on 24 and materializes in Cleveland Ohio where he battles Garko the Man Frog 25 Howard is arrested at this time for disturbing the peace and is mistaken for a mutant during a strip search but is released because the police fear he has mutant abilities Howard also briefly encounters and kills a vampiric cow named Bessie the Hellcow 26 Howard makes friends with an artists model named Beverly Switzler and a bizarre series of encounters follow He battles Pro Rata the cosmic accountant then meets Spider Man at the end of the battle 27 28 He battles Turnip Man and the Kidney Lady 29 who would become a semi recurring character over the years citation needed then learns the fictional martial art of Quack Fu 30 Howard then encounters the Winky Man who is actually the sleepwalking alter ego of Beverly s artist friend Paul Same 31 who would become a series regular and later become the pair s roommate citation needed Howard also briefly becomes a wrestler 32 Howard and Beverly hit the road seeking shelter in a gothic mansion where they battle a girl named Patsy and her giant animated to life gingerbread man 33 34 They eventually end up in New York City where Howard is nominated for President of the United States by the All Night Party 34 and he later battles the Band of the Bland alongside the Defenders 35 A doctored photo scandal leads him to Canada where he defeats a supervillain the Beaver who caused the scandal The Beaver falls to his death in a battle with Howard 36 Howard then suffers a nervous breakdown and flees Bev and their situation on a bus Unfortunately the bus passengers are all believers in various weird cults and try to interest Howard in them His seatmates are Winda Wester and the Kidney Lady a woman who believes that the soul of a person lives in their kidneys and attempts to stop anything she sees as anti kidney health After the bus crashes Howard and Winda are sent to a mental institution There he meets Daimon Hellstrom and is briefly possessed by Hellstrom s demonic soul becoming the new Son of Satan 37 Beverly and Paul manage to get them both back to Cleveland Later while on the S S Damned a cruise ship returning from scenic Bagmom Howard and Beverly are taken captive by Lester Verde Verde had known Beverly in college and had a crush on her and had assumed the identity of the supervillain Doctor Bong 38 who illegally marries Beverly against her will and transforms Howard into a human 39 40 After escaping back to New York and being restored to his natural form Howard is hired as a dishwasher by Beverly s uncle Lee Switzler Howard is later reunited with Dakihm the Enchanter the Man Thing Korrek and Jennifer Kale and they all battle the demon Bzzk Joh Korrek pilots the ship the Epoch Weasel and drops Howard back off at Cleveland before he and their allies fly away 41 42 Howard finally meets up with the cruise ship that rescued Paul and Winda from Doctor Bong and finds that Paul and Winda have befriended socialite Iris Raritan Howard is later kidnapped by the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime Winda is abandoned by Paul and Iris and Paul is shot and left in a coma 43 44 After defeating the Circus of Crime Howard is plagued by pessimistic dreams and goes his way alone just as he had at the series beginning 45 Writer Bill Mantlo beginning with issue 30 returned the series to its former status quo bringing Beverly back into the picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong Howard s creator Steve Gerber who left the series after issue 27 originally intended for Beverly and Bong s marriage to be lasting and for Beverly to be written out of the series from that point on Howard and Beverly s friend Paul who had ended up in a coma after he had previously been shot by the Ringmaster awakens from his coma and is released from the hospital Beverly s uncle Lee brings everyone back to Cleveland and employs Howard as a cab driver while Paul back to being a somnambulist after his release from the hospital becomes Winda s boyfriend Howard dons a suit of Iron Duck armor made by Claude Starkowitz a man who has delusions of being related to Tony Stark and dreams of being the personal armorer to Iron Man and battles Doctor Bong in the final issue of the original 70s Howard the Duck series issue 31 46 47 Howard later encounters Dracula 48 and even once returns to Duckworld 49 At the end of the nine issue magazine series Howard leaves Beverly at her request and is later offered a genetically constructed female duck mate whom he does not take to 50 On a later occasion She Hulk accidentally pulls Howard though a cosmic wormhole along with theoretical physicist Brent Wilcox and they are able to prevent other universes from crowding out Earth 616 During this time Howard meets a character called the Critic travels to a dimension known as the Baloneyverse and again battles a group called the Band of the Bland whom he had previously battled with the Defenders 51 52 53 In an encounter with Peter Parker and Ben Reilly the then current Spider Man Howard gets a rematch with the Circus of Crime and the Circus is defeated During the fight Howard and Beverly get stuck in a warehouse full of anthropomorphic ducks briefly meeting the Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck Parker and Reilly leave the warehouse believing that they have the correct versions of Howard and Beverly with them However in the Savage Dragon Destroyer Duck companion story that takes place simultaneously and that was written by Gerber it is explained that the version of Howard and Beverly that left the warehouse with Parker and Reilly are simply clones taken by mistake and that the real Howard and Beverly actually left the scene with Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck 54 The sorceress Jennifer Kale in a weekly attempt to return Howard to his home world inadvertently teleports Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy into her New York apartment The disoriented dinosaur attempts to eat Howard but spits him out when shot with Johnny Blaze s hellfire gun Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy then rampage through the city before being subdued by Ghost Rider Daniel Ketch Howard says that he relates to the pair being trapped in a world they never made before wandering off 55 56 Heroes Reborn Edit After a brief series of adventures with Generation X 57 Howard gets a job as a department store Santa Claus which gets him dragged to the North Pole where the real Santa Claus has sold out to HYDRA 58 Howard goes through several dimensions apparently through the power of Man Thing who can now talk but does not understand this new unknown ability and lands on a version of Duckworld where his parents are essentially Ward and June Cleaver he has a sister named Princess and he is regarded as a hero because his activities on Earth 616 were recognized by Duckworld s version of Reed Richards This origin traces the source of these dimensions to be projections from Franklin s mind Throughout the course of the adventure Howard has a romance with Tana Nile culminating in a kiss after which he apologizes and tells her of his attachment to Beverly 59 60 61 When Franklin understands that he has shaped all of these worlds the group finds themselves back in the Man Thing s swamp While Man Thing becomes a self appointed guardian to Franklin Richards Howard goes off on his own and is captured by the Cult of Entropy who wrap him in swaddling clothes 62 Although last seen in the swamp Howard states that he was thrown into baggage and transported on a plane The cult wants Howard because he has part of the Nexus of All Realities which shattered during Heroes Reborn inside of him Man Thing then enters Howard s mouth and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment but Man Thing is left desiccated and practically dead 63 Howard then encounters Namor who thought he had slain Man Thing but Howard explains that he would not be lugging his friend s body around if that were the case Howard sets the Man Thing down in the water and he revives during Howard s conversation with Namor Once he sees that the Man Thing is alive and well he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland 64 Years later back with Beverly he undergoes further shapeshifting experiences after an accident at a chemical facility of Doctor Bong s Beverly is hired by Bong s Globally Branded Content Corporation which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat which changes him unstably into a rat 65 When Howard later showers he changes his form multiple times before again permanently returning to the form of the giant rat Verde then goes to the press and claims that his building was attacked by Osama el Barka Osama the Duck in Arabic Howard and Beverly are sent back on the road after the junkyard office where they are living is destroyed by a S W A T team 66 Denied admittance to every possible shelter due to lack of funds the pair and their dog find a sign for the Boarding House of Mystery but are taken to the police station for questioning and strip searches by Suzy Pazuzu with whom Beverly had attended high school One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade which starts to take her over when she wears an enchanted bracelet In a skirmish the bracelet is caught by Howard causing him to be the wielder of the doucheblade The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade and possessed by this Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy s house 67 Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity There they are granted their every wish including Howard s return to his true form and Beverly never being poor again and meet parodies of John Constantine Wesley Dodds the Endless Spider Jerusalem and Gerber s own Nevada called Utah all characters from DC Comics Vertigo imprint The downside to the House is that everyone staying there gets their every wish so Che Guevara can have his revolution but someone else can easily slaughter him 68 One tenant a writer named Mr Gommorah a parody of Spider Jerusalem later takes Beverly and Howard to be on the Iprah show with the topic Why Women Give It to Men Who Don t Get It guest starring Dr Phlip Upon leaving the House of Mystery Howard is once again transformed into an anthropomorphic mouse It is revealed that Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy intended to replace God because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since 1938 Deuteronomy is a creature half id and half superego while Iprah is an all ego promoter of self indulgent pop psychology Considering her dangerous Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher s brains being immortal this just makes him act drunk Iprah destroys Freud but Howard blasts her with the cigar separating her from Deuteronomy Puffing on the cigar Howard disintegrates and arrives in Hell 69 He is eventually freed by Yah a being who claims to be God 70 Civil War Edit Sometime later Howard attempts to register under the Superhero Registration Act during the superhero Civil War but learns his socially disrupted life has created so many bureaucratic headaches that the government s official policy is that Howard does not exist This lack of government oversight delights him For the rest of my life no more parking tickets or taxes or jury duty Heck I couldn t even vote if I wanted to In this story Howard says he was pressured to give up his cigars 71 After he defeats the supervillain M O D O T s Mobile Organism Designed Only for Talking scheme to control the public through mass media his attorney Jennifer Walters successfully restores his citizenship including all relevant responsibilities 72 Secret Invasion Edit Howard the Duck is briefly seen as part of the superpowered army gathered to battle invading Skrull forces 73 He is seen armed with a pistol and wearing a Skrull s hand around his neck 74 He is later seen kicking a Skrull during interrogation after the invasion 75 Brian Michael Bendis has commented when asked of Howard That character has shown up in six issues I ve done and I ve never typed the words Howard the Duck 76 Marvel Zombies 5 Edit Main article Marvel Zombies 5 In Marvel Zombies 5 Howard the Duck of Earth 616 teams up with Machine Man to travel across the multiverse fighting zombies 77 Fear Itself Edit During the Fear Itself storyline Howard forms a team called the Fearsome Four with She Hulk Frankenstein s Monster and Nighthawk to stop the Man Thing when he goes on a rampage in Manhattan due to the fear and chaos he senses on the citizens They later discover a plot by Psycho Man to use the Man Thing s volatile empathy to create a weapon 78 Spider Man Back in Quack Edit Howard and Beverly are brainwashed and forced to work for Save Our Offspring From Indecency S O O F I as Cynical Duck and Swizzle They promote S O O F I at a public speech held for them by J Jonah Jameson Spider Man later interrupts a S O O F I indoctrination at the New York Public Library and Beverly and the other S O O F I s see Spidey as a semi demonic figure and attack him Spidey escapes with Howard and breaks his brainwashing when Beverly is threatened Howard quickly explains S O O F I s goals to Spider Man As Spider Man publicly announces his long standing support for S O O F I Howard confronts Bev as she stands beside the Supreme S O O F I Howard is able to break through to Beverly reminding her of their past together The Supreme S O O F I orders the S O O F I s to throw the pair into the special Blanditron at Guantanamo Bay but Beverly keeps them at bay with a whip Spidey attacks the S O O F I s and unmasks the Supreme S O O F I while the others escape through their teleporter Howard states that he believes S O O F I will lay low for a while after such a defeat and he also hopes that the group s Florida Everglades base might lead them to meet up with the Man Thing 79 The Ducky Dozen Edit Because of his experience with zombie infested worlds and his leadership of Machine Man Howard is chosen as the leader of as he dubs them the Ducky Dozen The team is composed of him several Golden Age heroes Dum Dum Dugan and Battlestar who is also a veteran of a zombie incident Upon entering Earth 12591 the Ducky Dozen fight hordes of zombie Nazis and Asgardians but suffer grave losses as the team s members are either killed or zombified during the battle After successfully accomplishing their mission Howard Dugan Taxi Taylor and Battlestar are the only members to survive and return to Earth 616 along with the Riveter the only survivor of Earth 12591 s resistance team the Suffragists 80 81 Wolverine and the X Men Edit Howard later teams up with his friend Doop to battle the Robo Barbarians in Dimension ZZZ They beat the horde back with nothing but a broken sword a rubber chicken with nails in it and a gun that shoots bees 82 Original Sin Edit After the death of Uatu the Watcher and the activation of the secrets buried in his eye Howard discovers that he has the potential to be the most intelligent being in Duckworld After evading a squirrel while driving he is thrown flying from his vehicle but uses his intellect to calculate a way to land safely in a nearby dumpster 83 Back to New York Edit Howard returns to his business as a private eye working in the same building as She Hulk in Brooklyn One of his first new clients is Jonathan Richards who hires Howard to retrieve a necklace stolen by the Black Cat With the help of Tara Tam his new friend and assistant Howard manages to recover the necklace However on his way to give it back to Richards he finds himself kidnapped by the Collector and allied with the Guardians of the Galaxy to escape the villain who was attempting to add Howard to his collection of rare space objects and entities Upon returning to Earth Howard is robbed by May Parker Spider Man s aunt and later re encounters the Ringmaster who is revealed to have brainwashed the elderly into committing robberies After recovering the necklace for a third time Howard is approached by Richards in the middle of his fight against the Ringmaster and Richards reveals himself to be Talos the Untamed who reveals that the necklace was part of a marginally powerful item known as the Abundant Glove With help from Doctor Strange Howard and Tara locate the final piece of the Abundant Glove but are unable to put it back together when Talos grabs it and proceeds to use it to wreak havoc on the city Talos is confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara take cover Howard is able to point out that Tara who is revealed to possess shapeshifting powers similar to that of a Skrull could help him defeat Talos Tara used her powers to impersonate Skrull Emperor Kl rt the Super Skrull distracting Talos long enough for Howard to snatch the Abundant Glove from his hand Talos is later apprehended by the Fantastic Four and everything returns to normal 84 Afterwards with the help of new arrival Gwenpool Howard prevented HYDRA from infecting the world with a deadly virus 85 He also has a crossover event with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 86 Howard the Duck is shown to be living in the She Hulk s apartment building when Patsy Walker moved out 87 Civil War II Edit During the Civil War II storyline Howard the Duck is among the building tenants that learn from Patsy Walker what happened to She Hulk following the fight against Thanos 88 War of the Realms Edit Howards last name Duckson is revealed in War of the Realms War Scrolls 1 Powers and abilities EditHoward has no superhuman powers but he is skilled in the martial art known as Quak Fu enough to defeat or at least to hold his own against far larger opponents He has shown some degree of mystic talent in the past to the point that Stephen Strange taught some spells to Howard and even offered to train him but Howard declined 35 On one occasion Howard used a suit of powered armor known as the Iron Duck armor designed by Claude Starkowitz Besides its property as body armor the suit was equipped with foot mounted leaping coils a chest mounted searchlight and flamethrowers in both arms 46 Characteristics and associations EditThis section possibly contains original research Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations Statements consisting only of original research should be removed August 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message Howard the Duck is a three foot tall anthropomorphic duck He generally wears a tie and shirt and is almost always found smoking a cigar Originally like many cartoon ducks he wore no pants Disney threatened legal action due to Howard s resemblance to Donald Duck 89 and Marvel redesigned that aspect of the character by writing into the script that Howard was the target of anti nudity protests and was forced to do business with Wally Sidney a failed cartoonist who made his fortune through a chain of conservative clothing retailers known as Sidney World Howard tries on various outfits including ones akin to Donald Duck s sailor uniform and Uncle Scrooge s coat and top hat before settling on his new attire of a business suit complete with trousers Although Howard sulks that he has lost Beverly reassures him that she does not want him to be a victim of a mob and loves him no matter what he wears 90 Howard has an irritable and cynical attitude towards the often bizarre events around him he feels there is nothing special about him except that he is a duck and though he has no goals other than seeking comfort and to be left alone he is often dragged into dangerous adventures simply because he is visibly unusual His series tagline Trapped in a world he never made played off the genre trappings of 1950s science fiction His near constant companion and occasional girlfriend is former art model and Cleveland native Beverly Switzler Like Howard Beverly wants an ordinary life but is frequently singled out for her appearance though as a beautiful woman rather than a duck His other friends include Paul Same a painter who briefly became a sleepwalking crime fighter named the Winky Man Winda Wester a lisping ingenue with psychic powers and country music singer Dreyfus Gultch Howard has worked with Spider Man and the Man Thing on various occasions Howard found himself on Earth due to a shift in the Cosmic Axis from a world similar to Earth but where there are more ducks and apes don t talk In the black and white Howard the Duck magazine series writer Bill Mantlo theorized that Howard came from an extra dimensional planet called Duckworld a planet similar to Earth where ducks not apes had evolved to become the dominant species In 2001 Gerber dismissed this idea calling it very pedestrian and comic booky in the worst sense of the term Gerber stated that Howard came from an alternate Earth populated by a variety of anthropomorphic animals and not Duckworld 91 A panel in Fear 19 prior to Howard s introduction depicts Howard or someone like him near an anthropomorphic mouse and an anthropomorphic dog in a panel about hypothetical other dimensions Gerber later depicted his character Destroyer Duck as existing in such a world His antagonists who usually appear in a single story each are often parodies of science fiction fantasy or horror characters as well as frequent parodies of political figures and organizations The chief recurring villain Lester Verde better known as Doctor Bong modeled on Doctor Doom and writers Bob Greene and Lester Bangs is a former tabloid reporter who has the power to reorder reality by smashing himself on the bell shaped helmet on his head and his main goal is to marry Beverly Beverly eventually agreed to marry him to save Howard from Bong s evil experimentation but the two were divorced shortly thereafter Doctor Bong would reappear in issues of She Hulk and Deadpool in the mid 1990s Other recurring villains include the Kidney Lady an older woman who has been convinced by her former lover that the soul is in the kidneys and attacks anything she sees as a threat to them and Reverend Jun Moon Yuc and his Yuccies a parody of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church Moonies Another important villain was the organization S O O F I Save Our Offspring From Indecency whose leader was implied to be Anita Bryant though she looked like an old fat Elvis Presley with a smiley face orange on her head Other Marvel Comics characters occasionally appeared with Howard including Spider Man the Son of Satan and the Ringmaster Omega the Unknown appeared to him in a dream as did Spider Man and the founding members of the rock group Kiss on other occasions Seemingly an autodidact Howard at various times references Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Albert Camus whose novel The Stranger Gerber considers the principal influence on the comic series 92 the Bronte sisters and other figures of philosophical and political significance In a parody of the Marvel comic character Shang Chi Howard was trained in the martial art of Quak Fu In the 2001 miniseries as a mocking gesture toward Disney s mascot Mickey Mouse and as a reference to a previous lawsuit with the company over Howard s similarity to Donald Duck Howard was turned into various other animals but primarily appeared in the series as an anthropomorphic mouse 93 Other versions EditAmalgam Comics Edit In the Amalgam Comics universe Howard the Duck is fused with Lobo to become Lobo the Duck This character is featured in its own one shot comic book which like almost all of the other Amalgam Comics falsely implied that the one shot was a continuation of multiple other pre existing Lobo The Duck stories 94 In the letters page of Bat Thing 1 there was mention of a fictional upcoming special issue featuring Howard the Mxyzptlk presumably a merging of Howard with Mister Mxyzptlk 95 Marvel Zombies Edit An alternate version of Howard the Duck becomes infected with the zombie plague and eats the brains of the alternate Ash that is native to the zombie version of the Marvel Universe He is swiftly slain by the Scarlet Witch and the original Ash Williams of the Evil Dead series 96 97 MC2 Edit In the Marvel Comics 2 universe Howard is seen as a blindfold wearing martial arts teacher a reference harkening back to his mastery of Quack Fu in the original 1970s series 98 Ultimate Marvel Edit In the miniseries Ultimate Comics Armor Wars a billboard advertising for HDTV is seen in the first panel showing Howard 99 Universe X Edit While Howard does not appear the Beast says I still feel badly about Howard who had been hunted down and consumed 100 In the original draft for Earth X Howard was supposedly served as a feast during the Skull s invasion of New York City The scene was cut due to space constraints 101 Spider Gwen Edit On Earth 65 in the Spider Gwen series a human named Howard T Duck is the President of the United States 102 Legion of Howards Edit In a parody of the Spider Verse event Howard and Leo Fitz team up with a group of Howards from across the Multiverse who collectively call themselves the Legion of Howards 103 Their ranks include Howard the Duck A version of Howard who wields Mjolnir and possesses the power of Thor Sister Howard the Duck A female version of Howard who is a nun on her world Howard the Roboduck A Japanese style giant mecha piloted by an alternate version of Beverly Switzler The Ever Lovin Blue Eyed Howard the Duck A version of Howard who possesses the abilities and appearance of the Thing Strange Duck A mystical version of Howard who acts as his world s Sorcerer Supreme In other media EditFilm Edit Lucasfilm and Universal Pictures produced the 1986 film Howard the Duck in which the eponymous character is voiced by Chip Zien and performed by an assortment of stunt actors in a duck suit ranging from Peter Baird Ed Gale Jordan Prentice Tim Rose Steve Sleap Lisa Sturz and Mary Wells This version of Howard is brought to Cleveland by a laser spectroscope experiment gone awry and befriends rock singer Beverly Switzler Marvel Cinematic Universe Edit Howard the Duck makes cameo appearances in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe voiced by Seth Green Howard is introduced in the live action film Guardians of the Galaxy 104 as a living exhibit in the Collector s museum on Knowhere When the Guardians of the Galaxy visit the Collector and attempt to sell him the Power Stone his slave Carina attempts to use it only to cause an explosion that kills her and frees all of the Collector s imprisoned creatures 105 In a post credits scene Howard has a drink with the Collector and Cosmo the Spacedog amidst the wreckage 106 In August 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn said It s possible Howard could reappear as more of a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe But if people think that s going to lead to a Howard the Duck movie that s probably not going to happen in the next four years Who knows after that 107 Howard also makes cameo appearances in the live action films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 108 and Avengers Endgame 109 110 He was also meant to make a cameo appearance in the live action film Avengers Infinity War While the scene was cut 111 Howard was confirmed to have survived the Blip 112 Alternate timeline versions of Howard appear in the animated series What If with Green reprising the role 113 In the episode What If T Challa Became a Star Lord citation needed a variant of Howard is kept in the Collector s museum until T Challa Star Lord frees Howard to help the latter find an artifact called the Embers of Genesis Howard initially agrees but stops to get a drink forcing T Challa to continue alone In the episode What If Thor Were an Only Child citation needed another version of Howard attends Thor s party on Earth and ends up marrying Darcy Lewis Plans have also occurred for Howard the Duck to star in his own film In 2016 Rob Zombie claimed that he had pitched a Howard the Duck film to Marvel but was turned down 114 After a rumor in June 2017 incorrectly stated that Marvel Studios was developing a film based Howard the Duck that would involve Gunn as a producer Gunn confirmed that September that a film for the character was not being made He said that while there were several comics characters he loved he was not making films of them all 115 In June 2018 Lea Thompson revealed that she was preparing to meet with Marvel Studios about her pitch for a new Howard the Duck film she wanted to direct after previously starring in the 1986 film as Beverly Switzler 116 Thompson had developed the pitch to be set in the MCU and worked on it for a really long time with modern Howard the Duck comic book writers Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones who had included her as a character in one of their comic runs That September Thompson said Marvel Studios loved her pitch but told her they had no plans for a Howard the Duck film and they would contact her again following the development of their MCU television series on Disney 117 Thompson expressed further interest in directing an MCU reboot for the character following his appearance in What If 118 Television Edit Howard the Duck makes a cameo appearance in the Ultimate Spider Man episode Awesome voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson 119 Spider Man finds him contained in a lab on the S H I E L D Helicarrier Additionally an alternate reality pirate version of Howard appears in the episode Return to the Spider Verse Pt 2 voiced by Seth Green 120 He previously served as the pirate captain Web Beard s first mate aboard the pirate ship Groot before joining the crew in launching a mutiny They attempt to make Web Beard and a multiverse traveling Spider Man and Kid Arachnid walk the plank but a Kraken attacks the Groot In response Spider Man and Kid Arachnid convince the pirates to reconcile and join forces to drive off the monster Following this the crew agree to serve under Web Beard once more Howard the Duck makes a non speaking cameo appearance in the Hulk and the Agents of S M A S H episode The Collector as one of the eponymous character s prisoners Howard the Duck appears in Guardians of the Galaxy voiced again by Seth Green 121 This version is an old acquaintance of Rocket Raccoon In the episode Lyin Eyes Rocket and Drax the Destroyer find Howard reading a newspaper in a display case at a Knowhere auction house In the episode Happy Together as part of a deal with the Collector Howard hires the Guardians of the Galaxy to obtain a Kree item While making the exchange Phyla Vell attacks the Guardians while Howard escapes to give the item to the Collector in exchange for seeing the outside of his ship In the episode Long Distance Runaround the Guardians find and apprehend Howard who confesses to setting them up and reveals the Collector betrayed him The Collector sabotages the Guardians starship the Milano to manipulate them into leading him to the Kree homeworld Hala so he can shrink it However Howard places a tracker on the Collector s ship for the Guardians so they can follow him In the episode With a Little Help From My Friends Star Lord recruits Howard to help him fight the Serpent Hulu intended to air a Howard the Duck animated series to be written and executive produced by Kevin Smith and Dave Willis which would have led up to a crossover special involving MODOK Hit Monkey Tigra and Dazzler called The Offenders 122 However in January 2020 it was announced that the Howard the Duck series along with Tigra amp Dazzler were cancelled 123 Video games Edit Alongside the 1986 Howard the Duck film Activision released a self titled tie in video game for the Commodore 64 MSX Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum citation needed Howard the Duck appears as an ability card in the crossover game Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 citation needed Howard the Duck appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 124 He is armed with a rocket launcher Howard the Duck appears as a playable character in the Facebook game Marvel Avengers Alliance citation needed Howard the Duck wearing his Iron Duck armor appears as a playable character in Marvel Contest of Champions 125 Additionally Venom the Duck also appears Howard the Duck appears as a playable character in the match three mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest 126 Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones who were writing Howard s comic at the time served as consultants in the development of the character 127 Howard the Duck appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 128 voiced by Greg Miller 129 Additionally he sports a variation of his Iron Duck armor Theme park Edit Howard the Duck makes a vocal cameo in the Disney California Adventure attraction Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout voiced again by Seth Green 130 He mocks the Collector s misfortune over an intercom following the latter s creatures and the Guardians of the Galaxy escaping his collection In addition Howard can briefly be seen in the background of the Collector s welcome video in the attraction s queue 131 Other comics Edit In Savage Dragon Destroyer Duck 1 Nov 1996 Gerber claims that Howard and Beverly Switzler changed their names to Leonard the Duck and Rhonda Martini remained in the Image Comics Universe and were last sighted in Chicago boarding the Amtrak for Buffalo while the duck who returned to Marvel is only an empty trademark a clone whose soul departed him at the corner of Floss and Regret 132 This was done because Tom Brevoort invited Gerber to write the comic claiming he was the only one to write Howard then Gerber noticed the Howard guest appearances in Ghost Rider and Generation X and felt as though he had been tricked 18 In the Don Simpson s Megaton Man feature a comedy relief character is Gower Goose an intended parody of Howard 133 In the Claypool Comics series Elvira Mistress of the Dark Gordon the Goose clearly modelled on Howard appears together with Dorkheem the Sorcerer and the Heap Thing in issues 49 58 and 59 In America s Best Comics Top 10 8 a duck appearing to be Howard with his distinctive blue hat amp jacket can be seen at the Transworld Transport Terminus In several issues of The Maxx Howard appears along with many other characters seemingly cut and pasted into the story In Adam Beechen s ending of Doctor Fate More Pain Comics which Gerber left unfinished when he died Howard who is heard but unseen his speech balloon ends with waaugh dispatched the Elf with a Gun to destroy Negal and Ymp then invited for one last drink with Yah Bev Thunny and Megs before Yah goes back upstairs 134 He is also seen being roasted in one of the Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe issues where the reporter states that Deadpool has gone into a killing spree looking for heroes and villains alike and also some characters that were never too special to begin with volume amp issue needed Newspaper comic strip Edit Between June 6 1977 and October 29 1978 Howard the Duck appeared in a syndicated daily comic strip that comic strip historian Allan Holtz has described as having low distribution and that was eventually replaced by the Incredible Hulk comic strip 135 The strip was syndicated in almost 70 newspapers 136 by the Register and Tribune Syndicate including the Toronto Star and Spokane Daily Chronicle When the strip was dropped by the Cleveland Plain Dealer a Cleveland TV station began televising the strip for two minutes each night 136 A total of eleven story arcs as well as a number of single joke strips constitute the 511 individual strips that were printed 137 The strip started with original stories written by Steve Gerber and illustrated by Gene Colan Pop Syke The Consciousness of Success The Cult of Entropy and Fred Feenix the Self Made Man The latter was started by Colan and completed by Val Mayerik who stayed on to do two additional Gerber scripted stories The Sleigh Jacking and In Search of the Good Life 138 These were followed by an adaptation of the Sleep of the Just story from issue 4 of the Marvel comic scripted by Gerber and illustrated by Alan Kupperberg Gerber was fired from the strip in early 1978 over chronic problems with deadlines 14 He was replaced by Marv Wolfman as writer while Alan Kupperberg continued as artist The remaining stories were Close Encounters of the Fowl Kind The Tuesday Ruby The Clone Ranger Bye Bye Beverly and The Mystery of the Maltese Human 138 As the series drew to an end its already meager list of client papers shrank making copies of these last post Gerber stories particularly hard to find In November 1978 the first of a projected eight issue series reprinting the entire strip was published by John Zawadzki Titled It s Adventure Time With Howard the Duck only the initial issue was published 139 Radio Edit In 1980 a pilot for a radio show version of Howard was recorded James Belushi played the role of Howard although the program was never aired 140 Collected editions EditTitle Material collected Published date ISBNEssential Howard the Duck Fear 19 Giant Size Man Thing 4 5 Howard The Duck vol 1 1 27 Howard The Duck Annual 1 and Marvel Treasury Edition 12 March 2002 978 0785108313Howard the Duck Omnibus Fear 19 Man Thing 1 Giant Size Man Thing 4 5 Howard the Duck vol 1 1 33 Marvel Treasury Edition 12 and Marvel Team Up 96 August 2008 978 0785130239Marvel Masterworks Howard the Duck Vol 1 Fear 19 Giant Size Man Thing 4 5 Man Thing 1 Howard The Duck vol 1 1 14 Marvel Treasury Edition 12 and Foom 15 March 2021 978 1302922160Marvel Masterworks Howard the Duck Vol 2 Howard the Duck vol 1 15 31 andHoward The Duck Annual 1 March 2023 978 1302949273Howard the Duck The Complete Collection Vol 1 Fear 19 Man Thing 1 Giant Size Man Thing 4 5 Howard the Duck vol 1 1 16 Marvel Treasury Edition 12 and Howard the Duck Annual 1 June 2015 978 0785197768Howard the Duck The Complete Collection Vol 2 Howard the Duck vol 1 17 31 and Howard the Duck vol 2 magazine 1 March 2016 978 0785196860Howard the Duck The Complete Collection Vol 3 Howard the Duck vol 2 magazine 2 7 and material from Crazy 59 63 and 65 August 2016 978 1302902049Howard the Duck The Complete Collection Vol 4 Howard the Duck vol 2 magazine 8 9 Marvel Team Up 96 Howard the Duck vol 1 32 33 Sensational She Hulk 14 17 and material from Bizarre Adventures 34 Marvel Tales 237 Spider Man Team Up 5 October 2017 978 1302908607Howard the Duck Howard the Duck vol 3 1 6 September 2002 978 0785109310Howard the Duck Media Duckling Howard the Duck vol 4 1 4 April 2008 978 0785127765Spider Man Animal Magnetism Spider Man Back in Quack and Spider Ham 25th Anniversary Special Ultimate Civil War Spider Ham and Top Dog 10 February 2011 978 0785151937Howard the Duck Vol 0 What the Duck Howard the Duck vol 5 1 5 October 2015 978 0785197720Howard the Duck Vol 1 Duck Hunt Howard the Duck vol 6 1 6 and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol 2 6 June 2016 978 0785199380Howard the Duck Vol 2 Good Night and Good Duck Howard the Duck vol 6 7 11 November 2016 978 0785199397Howard the Duck by Zdarsky amp Quinones Omnibus Howard the Duck vol 5 1 5 Howard the Duck vol 6 1 11 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol 2 6 and material from War of the Realms War Scrolls 1 November 2021 978 1302932015Alternate versions Edit Title Material collected Published date ISBNSecret Wars Journal Battleworld Howard the Human 1 and Secret Wars Journal 1 5 Secret Wars Battleworld 1 4 and Secret Wars Agents of Atlas 1 March 2016 978 0785195801Deadpool the Duck Deadpool the Duck 1 5 May 2017 978 1846538018Reception EditMichael Burkett of the Orange County Register described Howard the Duck as a cantankerous stogie chomping nattily dressed antihero with an acerbic wit irascible personality and down and dirty street smarts that distinguished him from other cartoon animal characters Burkett likened Howard to Donald Duck cross bred with Groucho Marx and Jean Paul Sartre He wrote that Howard s cult worshipped 1970s comic book series brought the surrealism social commentary political satire and what the hell am I doing here philosophy of 1960s underground comics into the mainstream 141 The New Yorker said Howard believed in mainstream social Darwinism and was a web footed Eric Hoffer Kenneth Turan of The Washington Post called Howard an Everyman with feathers forever shooting his mouth off battling a gloomy reality 136 Marvel editor in chief Roy Thomas thought that Howard as a funny animal character was inappropriate for the horror comic book in which he was introduced He told Gerber to dispose of the character as fast as you can After Gerber showed Howard seemingly dying by falling into a void Marvel s office was flooded with letters of protest One fan even sent in a duck carcass to make his point At San Diego Comic Con the auditorium stood up and applauded when a fan asked Thomas if Howard would ever come back Marvel responded by bringing Howard back for more appearances and soon launching his own self titled comic book series 142 Howard the Duck 1 was the best selling book Marvel ever had that wasn t based on a movie according to artist Frank Brunner 143 The debut issue of his series instantly became a target of speculators and occasionally sold for as much as 25 Comic book dealer Jim Kovacs said he followed a delivery truck on the day of its release and bought 900 copies right off the newsstands 136 Marvel s circulation director Ed Shukin said he underestimated demand only printing 275 000 copies the minimum amount allowed at the time 144 By December 1977 the issue was selling for an average price of 12 50 which comic book price guide publisher Robert Overstreet described as the most phenomenal growth of any comic book that has been published 136 Gerber was angry about the hoarding situation I felt as if the book had been sabotaged by the very people who supposedly liked the character He suspected that the lack of availability of issue 1 eventually led to lower sales on the entire series 10 Howard s first issue has been cited as the first big speculative book in the collectors market for comic books 145 The Howard the Duck comic book has been described as the first successful title aimed at an older audience 145 Former Marvel editor in chief Jim Shooter said that Howard had developed some cult favorite status that extended as far as Hollywood 146 During post production on Star Wars George Lucas showed issue 1 to his friends and collaborators Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz telling them this would make a great movie 147 Gerber was surprised at how quickly the character attracted mainstream media attention He was contacted for interviews by New York Magazine The New Yorker The Washington Post and others 148 Precious a song written by Chrissie Hynde for The Pretenders first album features the lyric Now Howard the Duck and Mr Stress both stayed Trapped in a world they never made 149 According to lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott quoted in Beat magazine Chrissie used to read Howard the Duck comic books and then she introduced Howard to bassist Pete Farndon and Pete was well over the top on it He s got every Howard the Duck comic ever 150 After Gerber parted ways with Marvel in 1978 amid numerous legal and creative disputes and other writers took over for him Howard the Duck s popularity diminished rapidly Stan Lee Shooter and Gerber himself criticized the post Gerber stories for their lack of substance and clever humor Within three years of Gerber s departure Marvel had ceased publishing new Howard the Duck material Lucasfilm s big budget 1986 Howard the Duck movie disappointed critics audiences and the character s fans alike Although Marvel has occasionally released new Howard comic books some written by Gerber and sometimes features the character in other media Howard s popularity has never again approached what it was in the 1970s 15 In August 2009 Time listed Howard the Duck as one of the Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters 151 References Edit a b Where are the jokes Howard the Duck meets his creator Mediascene Supergraphics 25 4 7 June 1977 McCoy Paul Brian March 16 2010 F O O M Flashbacks of Ol Marvel 13 If It Ain t Funk He Don t Feel It Howard the Duck 1986 Comics Bulletin Archived from the original on July 29 2010 Retrieved February 3 2013 a b c Howard the Duck character Grand Comics Database Sanderson Peter Gilbert Laura ed 2008 1970s Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 161 ISBN 978 0756641238 December saw the debut of the cigar smoking Howard the Duck In this story by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik various beings from different realities had begun turning up in the Man Thing s Florida swamp including this bad tempered talking duck a href Template Cite book html 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