Hugh Howards

Hugh Howards is a human character who appeared during Marvel's licensed Godzilla series, becoming involved in the efforts to monitor and respond to the giant monster's rampage across the United States alongside figures like Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones.

Bronze Age Marvel had a knack for dropping compelling human faces into its most outlandish concepts, and Hugh Howards is a fine example — stepping onto the scene in 1978's Godzilla #6, courtesy of Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe, right in the thick of Marvel's audacious kaiju experiment. Over a dozen catalog appearances, Howards shares the page with a roster that reads like a who's who of Marvel monster-era energy: Godzilla himself, the legendary Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, and others caught up in the chaos of giant-sized mayhem. His story is preserved in style within Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, making him accessible to a whole new generation of collectors, and at least one of his appearances carries that coveted key-issue designation. For fans who love the human texture woven through Marvel's wilder Bronze Age adventures, Hugh Howards is a name worth tracking down.