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Issue: Howard the Duck #8

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Publication Date: November 1980

Issue #8
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- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- ✔ #8
- #9
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Issues: #8 of 9 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Magazine Group

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 1980

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: 0714860295811

Price: $1.25 USD

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Content Items: 13 (4 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: 8.5 in. x 11 in.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Reprinted In1

Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:

Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection #4 published January 2017

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Content Items (13 total)

Ducktective Comics

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler

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Pages: 1

Dave's Simulation

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler

First Line: Being a Marvel character ain't all groupies and ticker-tape parades, y'know...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Stan Lee Presents Howard the Duck

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Howard the Duck

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Pages: 1

Notes: Table of Contents; credits; and panel reprint from "Ducktective Comics" story.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Moon Knight

First Line: It is a time of turbulance

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for the Moon Knight comic "on sale at newsstands everywhere."

The Grey Panther

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, superhero

Character(s): Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler; The Grey Panther [Gerry Atric] (intro)

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Pages: 21

How the Duck Got His Pants

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler

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Pages: 5

Notes: Article on the problems with the Disney Company regarding Howard, with panel and cover reprints.

Ducktective Comics

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Beverly Switzler; Howard the Duck

Synopsis: Howard and Beverly take jobs playing Duck-Man and Duck-Girl as entertainers in a shopping mall, only to find themselves accused of murdering their employer.

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Pages: 26

Notes: Batman parody. Includes "The Future by Finger" display of giant household appliances as a reference to Bill Finger's stories.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Daredevil; Elektra

First Line: The woman from Daredevil's past...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for Daredevil #168, on sale October 7.

Best Friends

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Street Peeple

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Pages: 6

Notes: Last appearance.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Ike Wilson (fan drawing)

Inker(s): Ike Wilson (fan drawing)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Howard the Duck

First Line: In her editorial in Howard the Duck #5...

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Pages: 2

Notes: Letters from Bill P. Starr, Bryan Reeves, Thomas Kalb, Mark Steiner, D. W. Schuey, Dana A. Snow, Mark Lungo, Robin Kincaid, Ike Wilson, Paul Lukas, Joe Christiano, and Mike Moore. Carol Bellamy, President, New York City Council, urges school children to be vaccinated before going back to school.

Next Issue: A Doubleheader!

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Character(s): Howard the Duck

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for Howard the Duck magazine #9 "on sale in December."

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Heroes World

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Ad from Heroes World, Morristown, N. J., featuring 1981 Marvel Comics 20th Anniversary Calendar, The Art of John Byrne, and other items.

6 Sports Cards as a Gift

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Sportscaster Cards

Character(s): Ron Guidry (baseball player, photo)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Ad for Sportscaster Cards, Picastaway, N. J. 08854.