Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Tara Tam (First appearance)
- Jen Walters
- Jonathan Richards (Main story and flashback)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
Antagonists:
- Black Cat's Gang
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed bodyguards
- Gatherers (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Sherlock Holmes (Mentioned)
- John Watson (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Detective Mike Corson (First appearance)
- Unnamed officers
- Law Offices of Jennifer Walters, PLLC
- Angie Huang
- Hei Hei
- Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- God (Mentioned)
- Collector (Taneleer Tivan) (Mentioned)
- Ben Parker (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- The Quacking Pumpkins (Mentioned)
- Larry David (Mentioned)
- Donald Duck (Mentioned)
- Rocket Raccoon
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Brooklyn
- Wishful Inking (First appearance)
- DUMBO
- Ideahive, Inc.
- Howard the Duck's office
- Ideahive, Inc.
- Hollingsworth Building (First appearance)
- Brooklyn
- New York City
- Cleveland (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
- Donna (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
- Spider-Man's Spider-Signal
- Respect Gem (First appearance) (Unnamed)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
One of the Gatherers captured a target before being assigned a new one on Klakmud/Earth.
Howard the Duck and Tara Tam were both released from jail and Detective Mike Corson revealed that neither of them had any kind of record before the past two months, like they never existed. Then, Howard and Tara introduced themselves to each other and the former introduced himself as a private detective while the latter introduced him to her tattoo parlor Wishful Inking. Howard stopped outside of She-Hulk's office and lashed out at her for not bailing him out as he had asked. Howard turned his attention to Jonathan Richards, who asked him to help him recover a family heirloom from the Black Cat. Howard bragged to She-Hulk about getting a client before she asked him to leave her and her associates alone. He insisted on replacing Hellcat with him as their private investigator.
At 10:07 PM, Howard encountered Spider-Man and asked him where Black Cat was, but he claimed to not know and left, much to the duck's annoyance. An angry Howard stopped outside of Wishful Inking, where Tara offered to work for him. He hired her after she revealed that Black Cat lived down the street from her. The new duo trained before they broke into Black Cat's apartment and found the heirloom. Black Cat returned, so Howard and Tara attempted to escape while hearing sirens. The duo encountered the Gatherer when Black Cat, now in her costume, tackled Howard. Spider-Man heard Howard screaming, but failed to reach him before the Gatherer shot Howard, seemingly vaporizing him.
Fifteen hours later, Howard was in a cell with Rocket Raccoon after being captured by the Gatherer.
Solicit Synopsis
• HOT off the pages of the … the post-credits scene at the … the end of a … popular movie … HOWARD THE DUCK is back! Join him as he takes on the weird cases that only a talking duck can crack as the Marvel Universe’s resident private investigator!
• Let Sex Criminals’ CHIP ZDARSKY (a writer known mostly as an artist) and JOE QUINONES (an artist known mostly as a lover) guide you through his new world as he takes on THE BLACK CAT and MYSTERIOUS FORCES FROM OUTER SPACE!
• WAUGH!Trivia
- The panel of Howard's abduction is a homage to the panel depicting the death of the Dark Phoenix from X-Men #136.
- The Quacking Pumpkins mentioned by Howard are a parody of the Smashing Pumpkins.
- Some of the books in Black Cat's apartment include Cat in the Hat, Cat's Cradle, and Charlotte's Web.
