Howard the Duck #27

Eat my glove!" — Howard the Duck is done being pushed around. Gene Colan and Joe Rubinstein's cover for this 1978 Marvel issue puts the feathered fury front and center, winding up a gloved punch square at the Ringmaster's sneering face while onlookers scramble in the background and a pair of costumed figures cause chaos above. Subtitled "Circus Maximus," this chapter of Steve Gerber's run promises exactly the kind of absurdist, indignant energy that made Howard one of Marvel's most delightfully offbeat characters of the era.