Marvel Comics has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive first look at Skottie Young’s variant cover for Howard the Duck #1. The cover has Howard, drawn in Young’s signature style, using some unkind utterances not fit to print.

Howard the Duck #1 will be written by Chip Zdarsky and feature interior art by Joe Quinones. The series sees Howard, hot off his cameo appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy, going back to work as a private investigator on weird cases.

Official solicitation text follows. Howard the Duck hits comic shops March 4.

Howard the Duck #1

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS

(W) Chip Zdarsky (A/CA) Joe Quinones

• 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!

Rated T+

Item Code: JAN150769

In Shops: 3/4/2015

SRP: $3.99