DR.
PHEELS GOODE
Real Name: Pheels Goode
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Psychiatrist
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Seymour Driver, Miz, Nurse Coil, Gen. D. Zastermarch
Enemies: Howard
the
Duck (indirectly - his existence drove Dr. Goode mad)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Credit Shrink," "Doc"
Base of Operations: His office, presumably in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
First Appearance: Howard the Duck I#28 (November, 1978)
Powers/Abilities: Dr. Pheels Goode has no
superhuman powers but he was a skilled psychiatrist up until the point
he went mad.
Height: Unrevealed (see
comments)
Weight: Unrevealed (see
comments)
Eyes: Light brown (see comments)
Hair: Gray (balding)
History:
(Howard the Duck I#28 (fb) - BTS) - Following a mission in which she
attempted to give secret Army information to Howard the Duck, elderly
apparent undercover agent Miz reported back to her superiors but they
assumed she had went crazy when she related the story of working with a
duck and recommended she pay a visit to Dr. Pheels Goode, a
psychiatrist that worked on credit.
(Howard the Duck I#28) - Miz
visited the office of Dr. Pheels Goode, arriving to see Dr. Goode
making out with his secretary, Nurse Coil. When Dr. Goode claimed he
was performing a little side dentistry work on his secretary and asked
if Miz wanted to see, the disbelieving Miz suggested Dr. Goode can the
corn and asked if he was going to analyze her or not. Dr. Goode quickly
composed himself and confirmed that instant analysis on credit was
indeed his specialty. Miz then laid down on Dr. Goode's couch and
related recent events involving an undercover operation at the Squirrel
Cage Cafe in which she attempted to provide information on Army
experiments to Howard the Duck. Surprised that Miz's apparent contact
was an actual duck, Dr. Goode asked Miz to continue her story. Upon
hearing Miz's claims that she used karate against Army soldiers who
sought to quiet her, Dr. Goode assumed Miz was mad as a hatter and hit
a button on his desk to summon the local mental hospital. As the
arriving hospital staff carried the ranting and raving Miz out in a
straitjacket, Dr. Goode summoned his next patient.
The
stumbling, visually impaired bus driver Seymour Driver then entered the
room and asked if he was next, to which Dr. Goode replied that Driver
was next if he wished to be. Driver then shook hands with Dr. Goode's
coat rack, thinking Dr. Goode had very thin hands, before stumbling his
way onto Dr. Goode's couch, at which point Dr. Goode asked Driver if
they should proceed with his analysis. Dr. Goode asked Driver if he
suffered from a certain perceptual issue but Driver claimed he was just
clumsy before recounting the story of being held up by Howard the Duck
with a number two pencil. When Dr. Goode asked what the hijacker looked
like and Seymour Driver mentioned that it was a talking duck, Dr. Goode
became visibly frazzled and suggested relief was on the way as he hit
the button to summon the mental hospital a second time. Wiping the
sweat from his forehead, Dr. Goode buzzed Nurse Coil, who asked if it
was "molar time" again, and Goode asked her if he had any more patients
for the day. Before Coil could answer, General D. Zastermarch entered
the room saluting and checking the area for bugs and wires. Dr. Goode
asked Zastermarch to recount the reason why he was visiting and after
Gen. Zastermarch mentioned an encounter with Howard the Duck, the
exasperated Dr. Goode again summoned the mental hospital.
Dr. Pheels Goode then tried to
make sense of his three patients, each of whom had claimed to see a
talking duck. As he considered some form of mass insanity or a
conspiracy against him, Dr. Goode looked out the window to see the
passing Howard the Duck and Beverly
Switzler. Cracking under the pressure, Dr. Goode was soon hauled
out of his office by the staff from the mental hospital.
Comments: Created by Marv
Wolfman,
Mary Skrenes, Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia.
"He's the one they call Dr. Pheels
Good! He's the one who makes you feel alright!" Dr. Pheels Goode's name
is a not-to-subtle play on the nickname for psychiatrists/pacifying
doctors: Dr. Feelgood.
Dr. Pheels Goode's height and
weight were impossible to approximate, as he was never seen close
enough to a character whose height and weight had been officially
determined. Additionally, I noted his eye color as light brown but they
honestly looked of a pale yellow or sometimes even white in the issue.
This profile was completed on
09/14/2026 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the
Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Dr. Pheels Goode should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Howard the Duck I#28 (November, 1978) - Marv Wolfman (plot), Mary
Skrenes (script), Carmine Infantino (pencils), Frank Giacoia (inks),
Steve Gerber (editor)
First posted: 09/23/2026
Last updated: 09/14/2026
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