Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck
Aliases:	Howard T. Duck Killmallard
Continuity:	Marvel Universe
Notability:	Main character
Type:	Private investigator
Gender:	Male
Race:	Duck
Location:	Duckworld Cleveland, Ohio New York City, New York
Associations:	Daydreamers
Status:	Alive
First:	Adventure Into Fear #19

Howard the Duck is a fictional alien detective and a recurring character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first made his cameo introductory appearance in Adventure Into Fear #19 in December, 1973, which featured the Man-Thing. Howard would go on to star in his own Howard the Duck ongoing series, as well as numerous follow-up titles as well as a short-lived black and white illustrated magazine series. He is featured in the 1986 live-action feature film Howard the Duck, where he is played by actor Ed Gale. Howard would eventually make an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, where he is voiced by Seth Green.

Biography

Howard is a fowl-little bastard who hails from Duckworld - an alternate dimension populated by anthropomorphized beings who bear a strong resemblance to Earth ducks. Howard ended up being shunted through a dimensional portal called the Nexus of All Realities and arrived in the swamps of the Florida Everglades. Trapped in a world he never made, the cigar-chomping adventurer found himself teaming up with all manners of bizarre individuals including the dimensionally displaced warrior prince Korrek, and the eerily phallic muck monster known as the Man-Thing. Unable to return to his home dimension, Howard decided to take a crack at life on Earth and opened up his own private detective agency nestled in the deepest, blackest heart of the most depraved environment imaginable - Cleveland.

Appearances

• Fear Itself: Fearsome Four 1
• Giant-Size Man-Thing 5
• Howard the Duck 16
• Spider-Man: Back in Quack 1
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)