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[[File:howardtheduck.jpg|link=Fictional Political Party|frame| I would have voted for him.]]
'''Howard The Duck''' is one of the strangest comic book characters ever published by [[Marvel Comics]], [[Adaptation Displacement|best known today because of]] [[Howard the Duck (film)|its movie adaptation]], believed by many to be one of the worst films ever made; this is unfortunate, as the comic was both funny and full of social criticism, and was one of Marvel's best known titles during the [[The Seventies|1970s]]. While not an [[Underground Comics|underground comic]] in of itself, ''Howard the Duck'' is widely cited as an example of the underground comix movement's influence on mainstream media.
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Howard was also the cause of a legal dispute between Marvel and Gerber, who claimed to own the character. This caused Gerber to leave the company and led to many years of legal wranglings; in the end, the situation was settled with Marvel keeping ownership of Howard.
Howard has appeared occasionally in various Marvel titles since the 1970s, and a few years ago starred in a miniseries (again by Gerber) that made open references to his sexual relationship with Beverly (it was part of Marvel's adult-oriented MAX line, which may not be a canonical part of the [[Marvel Universe]].) Thanks to [[The Cameo|an appearance]] in the [[Stinger]] for ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy (Film)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' in 2014, though, it has been established that he very much ''does'' exist in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].
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