Howard the Duck #11

What better way to sum up Howard the Duck's existence than a story titled "Quack-Up!" — and the cover by Gene Colan, Alex Niño, and Steve Leialoha delivers the absurdist dread perfectly. Howard, in his trademark jacket and tie, tumbles out of a bus doorway flanked by alarmed human passengers, while two enormous, looming figures in coats crowd the frame on either side — all under the ominous tagline "Bus to Oblivion!" That tagline — "It began as cheap transportation... but it ended in disaster!!" — captures exactly the cheerfully bleak humor Steve Gerber brought to this series in 1977, making issue #11 a thoroughly entertaining snapshot of Marvel's most gloriously out-of-place duck.