CREATOR - STORY

Name: Stephen 'Steve' Ross Gerber.
Personal dates: Born 1947 in Missouri, USA. Died 2008 in Nevada, USA.
Other creations
: None.
Successors*
: Bill Mantlo, Ty Templeton, Marv Wolfman.
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CREATOR - GRAPHICS

Name: Val Stephan Mayerik.
Personal dates: Born 1950 in Ohio, USA.
Other creations
: None.
Successors*
: Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, Alan Kupperberg.
Comments
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* The series has had a large number of writers and drawing artists. The ones chosen are just examples.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1973.

The series stars an anthropomorphic duck, who is, in appearance, reminiscent of Disney's Donald Duck*. Still, there are some major differences, the greatest being that Howard is placed in a superhero universe, while Donald belongs in a funny animal universe. Furthermore, Howard lives in a satirical - and often bizarre - sphere with social realism as a recurring theme, he smokes big cigars - and he wears trousers!

* Disney would not accept the closeness in overall appearance, so Howard was forced to wear trousers (pants in American English).

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER

Howard

 

 

GALLERY

 

 

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