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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published March 1980
Cover Price 1.25
Pages 68
Editing Lynn Graeme

Cover Details

Characters Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler
Genre satire
Pencils John Pound (painting)
Inks John Pound (painting)
Colors John Pound (painting)

1 page Howard the Duck illustration "Playduck"

Characters Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler
Genre satire
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin

25 page Howard the Duck story "The Maltese Cockroach"

Characters Hemlock Shoals (intro); Howard the Duck; Pro-Rata (flashback cameo)
Genre satire
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Dave Simons
Letters Joe Rosen

2 page text article "Playduck Interview with Truman Capoultry"

Pencils Ned Sonntag ?
Inks Ned Sonntag ?

2 page text story "The Old Drake's Tale"

Script ? [as Sir James Mallardy]

2 page Duckmate illustration "Ms. Amy Quakton"

Pencils John Byrne
Inks John Tartag

1 page text article "Birds in Bondage!"

Pencils Ned Sonntag
Inks Ned Sonntag

1 page text article "The Prisoner Of Ducks"

Script ? [as Norman Mallard]

25 page Howard the Duck story "The Dreadcliff Cuckoos!"

Characters Beverly Switzler; Paul Same; Winda Wester; Howard the Duck; Adolf Hitler's dentist (dies); Nurse Barbara; Kiss (flashback cameo); Rev. Joon Moon Yuc [as Moon June Yuk]
Genre satire
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Klaus Janson
Letters Michael Higgins; Irving Watanabe?
Notes Resolves a dangling plot-line from #14.