Chip Zdarsky Writer Joe Quinones Penciler Joe
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THIS IS HOWARD. HOWARD THE DUCK, IN FACT! HOW DID HE GET THAT NAME, YOU ASK? WELL, UH, BECAUSE HE’S AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC TALKING DUCK? I MEAN, HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC TALKING DUCK? WOULDN’T YOU PUT THE DUCK IN YOUR NAME IF YOU WERE AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC TALKING DUCK? UGH, SOME PEOPLE THESE DAYS… ANYWAY, IN ADDITION TO BEING A DUCK, HE’S ALSO TRAPPED HERE ON EARTH AND TRYING TO REMAIN SENSIBLE IN A WORLD GONE MAD! SO, Y’KNOW, HE BECAME A PRIVATE DETECTIVE. HOWARD’S HAD A ROUGH COUPLE DAYS. HE WAS HIRED TO RECOVER A STOLEN NECKLACE FOR A MYSTERIOUS CLIENT NAMED MR. RICHARDS (TOTALLY NOT HIS REAL NAME). BUT AS SOON AS HE RECOVERED IT, CHIP ZDARSKY HOWARD WAS PROMPTLY MUGGED BY SPIDER-MAN’S AUNT MAY. WRITER (DON’T WORRY, IT’LL MAKE SENSE IN A SECOND.) IT TURNS OUT THAT JOE QUINONES THE ELDERLY OF NEW YORK WERE ACTUALLY BEING HYPNOTIZED BY PENCILER THE RINGMASTER TO ROB PEOPLE! (OKAY, IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE.) JOE RIVERA THANKFULLY, MR. RICHARDS SHOWED UP TO SAVE THE DAY! BUT THEN HE REVEALED TO HOWARD AND HIS NEW FRIEND TARA TAM THAT HE WAS with PAOLO RIVERA NOT MR. RICHARDS (I TOLD YOU!), HE WAS ACTUALLY A DANGEROUS INKERS OUTCAST SKRULL KNOWN AS TALOS THE UNTAMED! RICO RENZI COLOR ARTIST AFTER GOING TO HIS “GOOD” “FRIEND” DR. STRANGE FOR HELP, TRAVIS LANHAM HOWARD LEARNED THAT THE NECKLACE WAS ACTUALLY A PIECE OF LETTERER THE MODERATELY DANGEROUS ABUNDANT GLOVE (WHICH IS TOTALLY NOT AT ALL LIKE THE INFINITY GAUNTLET). IN AN EFFORT TO SAVE THE JON MOISAN ENTIRE UNIVERSE (OR AT LEAST A SIZABLE PORTION OF IT), DR. STRANGE, ASSISTANT EDITOR TARA AND HOWARD, ALONG WITH THE HUMAN TORCH, TRACKED DOWN WIL MOSS THE LAST ABUNDANT GEM AT THE FORMER HEADQUARTERS OF THE EDITOR FANTASTIC FOUR. BUT IT TURNED OUT THAT TALOS HAD THE SAME TOM BREVOORT IDEA AND MANAGED TO GET THE GEM FIRST, FINISHING HIS GLOVE AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR BRINGING MODERATE DOOM TO THE GALAXY! AXEL ALONSO JOE QUINONES EDITOR IN CHIEF COVER ARTIST JOE QUESADA HOWARD CHAYKIN & JESUS ABURTOV CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER VARIANT COVER ARTISTS DAN BUCKLEY LISSA PATTILLO & CASSIE KELLY SPECIAL THANKS PUBLISHER CHIP ZDARSKY RECAP PAGE ARTIST ALAN FINE HOWARD THE DUCK CREATED BY STEVE GERBER & VAL MAYERIK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER HOWARD THE DUCK No. 5, October 2015. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. BULK MAIL POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. © 2015 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institu- tions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. Subscription rate (U.S. dollars) for 12 issues: U.S. $26.99; Canada $42.99; Foreign $42.99. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL ADDRESS CHANGES TO HOWARD THE DUCK, C/O MARVEL SUBSCRIPTIONS P.O. BOX 727 NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. TELEPHONE # (888) 511-5480. FAX # (347) 537-2649. subscriptions@marvel. com. ALAN FINE, President, Marvel Entertainment; DAN BUCKLEY, President, TV, Publishing and Brand Management; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Offi cer; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DA- VID BOGART, SVP of Operations & Procurement, Publishing; C.B. CEBULSKI, VP of International Development & Brand Management; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Print, Sales & Marketing; JIM O’KEEFE, VP of Operations & Logistics; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; SUSAN CRESPI, Editorial Operations Manager; ALEX MORALES, Publishing Operations Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Jonathan Rheingold, VP of Custom Solutions & Ad Sales, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 07/17/2015 and 07/28/2015 by QUAD/GRAPHICS WASECA, WASECA, MN, USA. .