Smacky Duck

Smacky Duck is a cartoon duck character created by Terre Richards, debuting in the countercultural pages of High Times Magazine in 1979. An offbeat Bronze Age oddity, the character existed entirely outside mainstream comics publishing.

Hatched in the freewheeling pages of High Times Magazine back in 1979, Smacky Duck is a genuine Bronze Age oddity — a creation of Terre Richards that found its unlikely home not in the superhero mainstream but in one of the era's most countercultural publications. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare and curious figure, sharing those offbeat pages with the equally singular Danger Rangerette. Smacky Duck won't be found in any Big Two crossover event, and that's precisely the charm — a reminder that the Bronze Age was wonderfully weird at its fringes, and that Trans-High Corporation had a comic sensibility all its own.