
When Howard still refused to help, Korrek threatened Howard. Bzzk'Jho attacked them and Jennifer was forced to use her power to bring Naac-P30, and Tutu, two Druid Droids that helped Howard, Korrek, and Man-Thing stop Jho. Dakimh brought them there to battle Bzzk'Joh.

Dakimh and Man-Thing arrived to ask Howard for his help and was reluctantly transported to to Land Between Night and Day, where they were reunited with Korek and Jennifer Kale. While relaxing in his apartment Howard was attacked by a salt shaker with arms and legs on a giant house fly, but they were unable to defeat him. who were "trying to restore order to the world". Howard went up against a hate group called S.O.O.F.I.

Through cleverness, persistence, and good luck, Howard always managed to defeat or escape his adversaries. His most notable arch nemesis was Doctor Bong. He continued to battled villains such as The Bellhop, Le Beaver, Kong Lomerate, Kidney Lady, Rev. As a result, the public dismissed his candidacy as a joke. As it turned out, the assassination was unnecessary as the general populace refused to believe that Howard was a real talking duck, thinking of him instead as a dwarf in a duck suit. Howard defeated his would-be assassins with the help of the Defenders and they were sent to prison. He was even the target of an assassination plot as someone hired Doctor Angst and his Band of the Bland to kill him. Howard came to public notoriety when he became a candidate for the United States presidency on a very minor party ticket. Īlthough Howard attempted to live as normal a life as possible, considering that he is a talking duck on a world of human beings, he continually ran afoul of various unusual menaces including Turnip Man, Count Macho, Winki Man, Emile "The Goat" Klout and the Gingerbread Man. Howard and Beverly escaped and began living together. In Cleveland, Howard first met the young life model Beverly Switzler who was a captive of the costumed criminal accountant Pro-Rata. Despite his heroism, however, Howard was still denied a position on the Cleveland police force, much to his dismay. During the fight, he used the mallet and wooden stake to seemingly end the blood-sucking bovine's hellish existence once and for all. During the investigation, he finds Bessie, the Hellcow, who attacked him, but Howard kept her at bay with a push broom. As such, he sought to earn a position on the Cleveland police force by catching this mysterious farm stalker. Howard the Duck wanted to establish a reputation in Cleveland. He landed back on our Earth in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where he first faced the menace of Garko, the Man-Frog. The battle against Thog ended for Howard when he fell off the other-dimensional Stepping Stones of Oblivion. In an effort to set the cosmic axis right and return home, the reluctant Howard joined with Korrek the barbarian, who also came from another dimension, the young Earth-born sorceress Jennifer Kale, Dakimh the Enchanter, and the Man-Thing.

Howard was dislodged from his home dimension and dropped into the middle of the Florida Everglades on Earth-616 at the site of this world's Nexus of All Realities, a place from which travel to all other dimensions is said to be possible. Howard vanished from his home world when the power hungry demon Thog the Nether-Spawn used his magic to cause the interdimensional cosmic axis to shift. Indeed, there are conflicting accounts as to the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Further details about Howard's past on Duckworld are still unknown.

He eventually decided to give up on his studies, wasting his potential. As a child, he discovered an amazing potential intellect, however he was continuously bullied by other children as a result. He was the son of a Ronald and Henrietta, a working class catholic couple living in New Stork. Duckworld resembles mankind's Earth in an astounding number of ways, including the fact that ducks speak English. Howard the Duck was hatched on Duckworld, a planet in another universe, where intelligent life evolved from waterfowl.
