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Issue: But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [redesign 1979]

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Publication Date: January 1979

Issue #[nn] [redesign 1979]

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Issues: #[nn] [redesign 1979] of 2 Issues (8 Printings)

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Pages: 132

ISBN: 0030075211

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Price: none entered

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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)

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Notes: Dimensions of the redesigned book are 6⅛” × 8¼”. The words “a Doonesbury classic” appear above the title on the cover.

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Format

Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: Color cover; Black and White interior

Dimensions: Oversized mass paperback books (5⅛” × 7⅞”, then 6⅛” × 8¼”)

Paper Stock: book paper; newsprint; Cardstock cover

Binding: Squarebound; trade paperback

Publishing Format: Collected Edition

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Variants3

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [redesign 1979] [unnamed variant]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [redesign 1979] [Twelfth Printing]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [redesign 1979] [unknown printing]

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Content Items (3 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

But This War Had Such Promise

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Title page with illustration. Title page art in redesigned book differs from that in book’s original design.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Doonesbury daily (Universal Press Syndicate) 1971-12-27 - 1972-06-27 [124 daily strips]

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Newspaper publication of Carlton’s work began “in early December [1971]”; Carlton initially lettered the strip for only a few weeks before Trudeau resumed lettering the strip. After about a year of Carlton inks and Trudeau letters, Trudeau again delegated lettering to Carlton, and the arrangement endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31). GCD’s letters credits reflect that the time period covered by this volume appears to begin during the “few weeks” of Carlton’s initial inking and lettering stint, and appears to end during the year in which Trudeau lettered and Carlton inked.
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References:

Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Inside Doonesbury’s Brain.” Newsweek. October 15, 1990. Quoted in Brian Walker, Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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