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Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik . Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 ( cover-dated Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic " funny animal " trapped on a 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. The book is existentialist , and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: "that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view." This is diametrically opposed to screenwriter Gloria Katz , who, in adapting the comic to the screen, declared, "It's a film about a duck from outer space... It's not ...