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:


images: (without ads)
Howard the Duck I#28, p6, pan4 (Dr. Pheels Goode, main image)
Howard the Duck I#28, p3, pan4 (Dr. Pheels Goode, headshot)
Howard the Duck I#28, p1, pan4 (Dr. Pheels Goode making out with Nurse Coil)
Howard the Duck I#28, p11, pan2 (Dr. Goode frazzled)


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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