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

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Publication Date: January 1975

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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: $1.95 USD

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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Don Hutter (uncredited, see notes)

Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between June 4th and December 20th 1974.

Dimensions of first printing are 5⅛” × 7⅞”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with Wouldn’t a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible?

Garry Trudeau’s original editor at Holt, circa 1972, was Don Hutter (Walker 2010, 128). And Trudeau’s editor in 1981 was Hutter (Walker 2010, 95), until Hutter left the position (New York Times 1981). GCD’s editing credit reflects the assumption that Hutter was Trudeau’s editor at Holt continuously between 1972 and 1981.
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Reference:

New York Times. 1981. “New Editor at Simon & Schuster.” May 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Virginia "Ginny" Slade; Clyde Montana

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Pages: 1

Wouldn’t a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible?

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Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Pages: 1

Notes: Title page with illustration.

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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.

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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.