Howard the Duck

Once the denizen of Duckworld, in a home dimension populated entirely with sentient ducks, Howard the Duck was living a normal life until he was chosen to join a team of inter-dimensional heroes to stop a demonic army from taking control of the Nexus of All Realities, a porthole to the rest of the multiverse physically bound to the swamps of the Florida Everglades and protected by Man-Thing. While crossing the magical barriers between realities, Howard slipped and fell into the void below- where he was believed dead.

In actuality, Howard survived and found himself crashing back down in the reality he had been summoned to at the start; Earth-616. Surrounded by a society of "hairless apes" and with no way back home, Howard settled down in Cleveland, Ohio and began attempting to make a life for himself. Over the years, Howard has seen and done a little bit of everything, from being an Agent of ARMOR all the way up to a failed US Presidential campaign.

In modern times, Howard has become a licensed detective, and now operates the Howard T. Duck Private Investigations agency.

Series 5 - Silver Surfer (2003)
Howard makes his debut in the Marvel Legends toyline in a somewhat unique position; instead of being released as his own figure, he was included as a bonus pack-in figure alongside the entirely unrelated Silver Surfer from 2003's Series 5. Howard stands at roughly 3" tall and is sculpted to closely resemble the character as he was depicted by artist Gene Colan, who served as the artist for the majority of the original run of Howard the Duck comics. Howard features minimal articulation - possessing only a swivel at the neck and waist, and ball hinged shoulder joints, allowing him little in the way of movement.

Howard the Duck included no accessories, as he was an accessory himself. The Silver Surfer he was packaged with included a surfboard, a flight base with the ground sculpted and painted to look like a meteorite, and a reprint of Silver Surfer #11 from 1969.

Marvel Minimates Wave 64 - Disco Dazzler and Howard the Duck (2016)
Released as part of the 64th series of retail release Minimates figures, a wave inspired by the Jonathan Hickman penned Secret Wars crossover event, Howard made his debut packaged alongside a classic rendition of Dazzler. Interestingly, Howard himself did not actually appear in Secret Wars; instead his book was temporarily relaunched during the event as "Howard the Human", and featured a human Howard trapped in a section of the Battleworld otherwise populated by sentient animals, in an inverse of the character's usual theme. The figure itself is based on the Howard the Duck ongoing comic from the same period, featuring Howard in his new detective role.

Like all Minimates, Howard is a roughly 2" scale figure sharing the same basic body mold that conveys the majority of his features and costume through paint details for stylistic consistency across all Minimates toylines. In order to give him his more accurate shorter size, Howard is given the same smaller limbs that debuted previously in the Disney line for The Nightmare Before Christmas' Lock, Shock and Barrel figures, but he uses the arms for all four of his limbs - giving his legs a more avian, rounded appearance. He does depart from the standard Minimate mold somewhat in that his head is a unique sculpt in order to give him a bill instead of merely painting it on, and including the fedora as a permanently sculpted piece. He also features sculpted flippers instead of feet. Howard comes with no accessories aside from the standard clear plastic stand included with every Minimates figure.

Funko Pop! Gaming #301 - Howard the Duck (2018)
Howard made his non-MCU debut in the hyper-stylized chibi Funko Pop! vinyl bobblehead collectible figure line as part of a set based on the Contest of Champions mobile fighting game, released in February 2018. In order for Howard to compete in the fighting game he is based on, the developers needed to find a way to make him large enough to have normal hitboxes, and thus settled on giving Howard a large, duck-shaped Mech to fight in; as such, the Funko Pop is actually one of the 6" "super sized deluxe" with a slightly higher price point. As a figure based on the mobile game instead of the comics or films, the figure was made part of the "Pop! Gaming" subline instead of the general "Funko Pop!" or "Pop! Marvel" lines and numberings, where it was numbered figure #301.

BattleWorld Series 1 - Howard the Duck (2020)
Released as part of the first series of figures in Funko's small scale collectible miniature action game, BattleWord: Mystery of the Thanostones, Howard the Duck is a common rarity character, available as one of over 30 potential figures mixed into a blind box set, called a Battle Ball. Howard is a static figure in a neutral pose identical to the other figures in the series, and sculpted to resemble his appearance in Chip Zdarsky's 2010's series featuring Howard as a detective. He comes with a character card, which gives him an ability called "Investigate" which allows the character to survive negative repercussions for missing an attack roll.