Volume One includes the first 16 issues of HOWARD THE DUCK who fell through a metaphysical interdimensional time warp and arrived from his home world (DuckWorld) to find himself in Cleveland, Ohio on Planet Earth. First, however, he appears in ADVENTURE INTO FEAR and MAN-THING issues from Marvel comics as a pawn in a nefarious plan by an evil sorcerer. Steve Gerber, the creator and writer, later was allowed to give Howard his own comic book and tell of his strange existentialist adventures along...

Howard The Duck Vol.1 is an amazing comic. That said it is not for everyone, the stories are absurdist satire that comment on the political climate of the 70's as well as a parody of Marvel at the time.If thats what you are into then you should definitely read this

Some of the most thought provoking comics in American history.

One of the best books (graphic novels) I've ever read, go ahead make fun of me for reading it and how my name is also Howard, I don't care this book was worth it.

If you know something about comic book history, you probably know that the 1980s saw mainstream US comics undergo a transformation. A wave of innovation, spearheaded by the likes of Alan Moore and Frank Miller, sparked the rise of comics expressly written with adult readers in mind. This didn't just entail darker tones and more explicit content, but also the exploration of more complex, mature topics and, perhaps most importantly, better writing. Later, comic historians would decide that the ear...

I don't even know what to say about this. I mean, the most I'd ever known about Howard the Duck was the movie (though I don't recall it being so terrible, though I was the same age as those kids who defended Jar Jar Binks, so there you go). I was wholly unprepared for the weirdness that this series imbues, but it was great! Howard isn't a caricature, just a character, and a fully realized one at that. The evil dudes are the stuff of acid dreams, and the women...well, there are women. Definitely

Howard the Duck is a one of a kind character at Marvel. Sure, he has a lot in common with John Byrne’s Sensational She-Hulk and Deadpool (from the deranged minds of Fabian Nicieza & Rob Liefeld) in that all three characters speak about the structure of narrative, the reason for motivation and the problems of characterization as much as they are humorous, but Howard is still different. And I’m not just speaking about him being a Duck (heck, Thor was a frog, thank you Walter Simonson). No. Howard

One of my first comic book memories is of reading some crumbly but well-preserved mid-seventies comics in an old UPS crate (which I still have in the closet at my new house), saved by my dad from Marvel's trippy Seventies peak. This, if you know anything about comic books, was the tipping point when comics began to move from targeting a child audience to an adult audience, with interlocking storylines, psychedelic visuals and increasingly wordy, self-referential dialogue. As a kid, I loved Howar...

The battle of mediocrity against absurd villainy is interrupted for roughly a third of the issues by Howard having a nervous breakdown - coinciding with a parallel breakdown in the writer of the series, as detailed in the final issue in this volume.Still, Howie gets some laughs in.

This is Steve Gerber at his best. Insane, absolutely insane. If you’re interested in the adventures of a misogynistic duck from another dimension who fights a killer accountant, a space turnip, a woman who only cares about people’s kidneys, a Frankenstein gingerbread man, a giant beaver who thwarts his 1976 presidential campaign, and a supervillain with a giant bell for a head you’ve come to the right place. If you love weird, you’ll love Howard.

Daft, but of massive nostalgic value. Like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers or Fritz the Cat, but somehow in the Marvel comics continuity.

Weird and whacky character that had a presidential campaign in 1976, became master of quack foo, fought with the Defenders, was possessed by the son of Satan, met the rock band Kiss at their peak, whose greatest villain is a bus riding lady obsessed with kidneys, also battles Rev Moon Yuc and Dr. Bong, and lives in a flat in Cleveland. ...And that's the stuff that isnt so strange. You have to read it because it can't be explained. Sort of a phenomenon for a short while, Howard had a comic book,

I remember loving Howard for reasons I didn't fully comprehend when I was a kid. It's good enough today that I ordered the 2nd Volume on pre-order, and I am sorely tempted to start tracking some old Howard The Duck comics down.

I'm not in the mood to read about Howard's presidential campaign this close to election day. I like this quite a bit but it's wordy as hell and not want I want to be reading right now. I'll return to it at some point.

Missing my comics -- I had bought every issue of HTD, carefully planning my monthly trips to Ben Franklin, Walworth's, any place that had a comics rack, to make sure I never missed an issue. Where are they now? Someone knows....

Well, Howard himself may have returned to the big screen twice now, and even Hellcow gets the odd comic appearance, but funnily enough I think this may have been the only appearance for Phelch, last of the space turnips... The original Howard comics collected here, right back to his first appearances (yes, including the wonderfully titled Giant-Size Man-Thing) oscillate between sheer silliness and slightly heavy-handed preaching, Gerber clearly seeing Howard as his alter ego and the comic as his...

One Christmas many, many, many (oh god! It was so many!) years ago, one of the presents I asked for and received was this grab bag of comic books that I had seen hidden away at the bottom of some page in that year's JCPenny catalog. It was something like 20 comics for $3.00 or something like that. Out of those twenty various issues of mostly Marvel and DC and mostly super-hero comic books the only two I remember to this day are a random issue of some non-Big Two comic (maybe an issue of 'Warp?')...

A cool bit of Marvel history and a great character. Howard the Duck is a fun and biting satirical character that puts a very different spin on the idea of a Marvel hero.

There are a few comics that stand out from the crowd, game-changers, Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing, and now I would definitely say that Howard the Duck belongs on this list!This was spectacular, and far more than I expected! I had heard plenty about just how existential, and satirical Howard the Duck was as a comic, and to be perfectly honest I was slightly worried (being British, and born in 1987) that I wouldn't get the satire as it is

Howard the Duck. Oh, Howard the Duck. What can I say about Howard the Duck? To start out with, I had a particular loathing of the terrible movie version, because I'd previously read the comic and enjoyed it. Started picking it up when I'd reached the age where my childhood superhero magazines weren't cutting it any more, and Howard seemed a bit more... challenging. So when the lame film adaptation came about, I was super annoyed. This particular holiday season, when I often found myself feeling