Howard the Duck, was created by Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973). He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant-Size Man-Thing, confronting such bizarre horror-parody characters as Hellcow and the Man-Frog, before acquiring his own comic book title with Howard the Duck #1 in 1976.
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