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Howard the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered anthropomorphic funny animal trapped on human-dominated Earth. Howard’s adventures are generally social satires while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium.