The first Marvel character to ever star in a feature-length film wasn’t Thor or Spider-Man, but a jaded, cigar-loving space duck named Howard. Who would think to put such a weird character onto ...

Instead of using a top-tier character like Spiderman, it was thought fortunes could be made by centering the film on Howard the Duck. In the comics ... Breeders of the Lost Stork adorn the walls. His ...

George Lucas` production of ”Howard the Duck” reportedly cost $52 million to make–a figure that Lucasfilm Ltd. refuses to confirm or deny. As cost overruns go, this one is enough to make the ...

Still, Thompson never imagined Howard the Duck would initially be such a deeply loathed calamity (“It doesn’t work at all,” sneered the late Gene Siskel when he and Roger Ebert labeled ...