Doctor Avery

A supporting player born from one of Marvel's most wonderfully weird Bronze Age experiments, Doctor Avery made their debut in Howard the Duck #12 (1977), courtesy of the singular Steve Gerber and the incomparable Gene Colan. Woven into the gloriously offbeat world of Marvel's most existentially troubled waterfowl, this character keeps some genuinely eclectic company — sharing pages with Howard himself, the enigmatic Daimon Hellstrom, and a cast of characters as charmingly strange as the series itself. With appearances preserved in the Marvel Masterworks: Howard the Duck collection, Doctor Avery is a small but authentic piece of one of the Bronze Age's most distinctive and beloved corners of the Marvel universe.