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Issue: Wouldn't a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible? (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1984

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Issues: #[nn] of 2 Issues (6 Printings)

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Variant: Seventh Printing

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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: 0030149010

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Price: $5.25 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Dimensions of the seventh printing are 6⅛” × 8¼”. The words “A Doonesbury classic” appear above the title on the cover.

List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with You Give Great Meeting, Sid. List of “In Large Format” books ends with The People’s Doonesbury.

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Format

Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: Color Cover; Black & White Interior

Dimensions: 5⅛” × 7⅞”, then 6⅛” × 8¼”

Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; book paper interior; Newsprint interior

Binding: trade paperback

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Wouldn't a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible? (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Redesigned Book]

Wouldn't a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible? (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Seventh Printing]

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Content Items (3 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Wouldn’t a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible?

Credits on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Mike Doonesbury; Mark Slackmeyer; B.D.; Zonker Harris; Joanie Caucus; Ellie; Uncle Duke (first appearance); Mrs. Pocatelli (first appearance); Marilou Slackmeyer; Phil Slackmeyer; Virginia "Ginny" Slade (first appearance); Clyde (first appearance); Phred; Rufus "Thor" Jackson; Bobby Matthews (first appearance); Malcolm Deveaux (first appearance); Rev. Scot Sloan; Woodrow (first appearance); Nichole; President King

Synopsis: Joanie moves to California to attend Berkeley Law School and becomes friends with Ginny, her roommate, and Ginny's boyfriend, Clyde; Joanie also meets Zonker's Uncle Duke; Phred needs to fund a revolution; Rufus helps Bobby and Malcolm adjust to being bussed to an integrated Elementary school.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1974-06-04 - 1974-12-20.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Carlton’s association with Trudeau began in the early 1970s, and his responsibilities grew to include lettering of the strip. The association endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31).
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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.