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Howard the Duck meets Humphrey Bogart: Howard the Duck Magazine #7 by Marie Severin

Artist: Marie Severin (All)

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Howard the Duck meets Humphrey Bogart: Howard the Duck Magazine #7 by Marie Severin Comic Art

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The Maltese Falcon

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Title:	Howard the Duck meets Humphrey Bogart: Howard the Duck Magazine #7 by Marie Severin
Artist:	Marie Severin (All)
Media Type:	Ink Wash
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	528
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	8/20/2023
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The Magnificent Marie Severin, AKA Gal Friday, did this �The Cheap Ducktective� pin-up for Howard the Duck Magazine #7 published in 1980. It cracks (quacks?) me up every time I look at it.

Parodying the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, Severin included Mary Astor as Bev Switzler and Humphrey Bogart as Howard the Duck. Severin even depicted Astor wearing an outfit she wore in the movie. (And Bill Mantlo wondered if that was Peter Lorre in the rabbit ears just outside the door.)

Severin aims every detail at humor: the open desk drawer filled with baseball, three-fingered brass knuckle, wheat germ, and book titles; Howard�s oversized chair and the telephone directories stacked under his butt; the ash-dead cigarette in his bill and dropless liquor bottle in his hand; the empty dixie cup, the Maltese Falcon statue on his desktop, and even the private �eye� on the door in the background. Not to mention the expressions on Howard/Bogart�s and Switzler/Astor�s faces.

After the feature story, this issue of the magazine finished off with Howard pin-ups by Marie Severin, John Byrne, Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson, and Howard Chaykin. While they are all good, for my money (and I freely admit bias) Severin�s is the best.

Had she been a man, Severin would have commanded a larger salary and greater respect. Instead, she made a lot of men and a number of comic book companies run by men look very good. And Severin was funny - very funny - as her work on Mad and Not Brand Echh and other titles affirm and as her renowned cards for her co-workers attest.

Parody is wickid smaht, and so was Severin. Thanks to Bechara of Nostalgic Investments!

Movie poster courtesy of the Paso Robles Pioneer Museum.

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Rick W
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 8/20/2023

Love the 3-fingered brass knucks in the drawer!

John C
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 8/20/2023

Hey, what's this bird, this Falcon, that everybody's all steamed up about?

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 8/21/2023

Sam Spade: When you're quacked, you'll take it and like it.

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 8/21/2023

Superb

Steve Lipsky
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 8/21/2023

Marie's work here is positively sublime. The attention to detail, the hilarious little touches throughout the piece and the great use of ink wash. Great pick-up, congrats. Color me jealous.

Filmore W. Bedwick
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 8/22/2023

Magnifique! This shows Marie's mastery of form and materials and her sense of humor🥰

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 8/24/2023

SAM SPADE: There's only two kinds of dames in the world: Women who want to sleep with me and women who want to kill me. Would I be wrong in guessing you're the second kind?

Red Raven
Member Since 2012

1 - Posted on 10/26/2023

beautiful pièce by the incredible Masteress - congratulations !!!

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