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Issue: Bloom County Tales Too Ticklish to Tell #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Publisher: FlagLittle, Brown
Brand: Little, BrownView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
On Sale Date: 1988
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0316107352
UPC/EAN: 978031610735890000
Price: $10.95 CAD
$7.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Printed in the U.S.A.

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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 9"
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: squarebound; softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Berke Breathed; Jim Newport
Berke Breathed; Jim Newport
Berke Breathed; Jim Newport
Subject Matter
humorous
Bloom County
Opus; George Bush [George H. W. Bush] [George Herbert Walker Bush]
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Miscellaneous
1
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Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
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Inside front cover
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
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Miscellaneous
1
Half-title page
Bloom County Books by Berke Breathed

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Berke Breathed
Berke Breathed
?; typeset
Subject Matter
Opus
Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
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Miscellaneous
2
Title page, front matter
Introduction

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Mikhail Gorbachev]
? (photo); ? (doodle) [as Mikhail Gorbachev]
? (photo); ? (doodle) [as Mikhail Gorbachev]
typeset
Subject Matter
Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev
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Miscellaneous
1
Spoof introduction, purportedly from Gorbachev
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Berke Breathed
Berke Breathed
Berke Breathed
?
Berke Breathed
Subject Matter
humorous
Bloom County
Opus; Milo; Binkley; Portnoy; Binkley's dad; Steve Dallas; Steve's mom; police; aliens; members of Congress; Cutter John; Lola Granola; W. A. Thornhump; Bill the Cat; Oliver Wendell Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones; Basselope
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from Bloom County dailies and Sundays (Washington Post Writers Group Syndicate) 1987.??.?? - 1988.??.??
Miscellaneous
122
Compilation of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips (Sundays in color). Notable story arcs include: Opus marries Lola; Bill the Cat becomes a televangelist; Binkley's anxiety closet; Opus in exile; contempt for Donald North; Bloom County goes on strike; suing Santa Claus; aliens reverse Steve's brain; Meadow Party caucuses; making fun of Gary Hart; putting out a newspaper; Binkley's dad dates; Oliver's scientific achievements; Oliver's mom is obsessed with Michael Jackson.
The Bloom Picayune

Illustration  on  Dustjacket
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
4
Loose "newspaper" spoof insert, printed on either low-quality bond or high-quality newsprint. Dimensions 8 1/8" w 10 1/4" h. Includes bylines by Milo Bloom, Buddy Manly, Mable "Megadeath" Marple (all fictitious characters), and George F. Will. Spoof Family Circus cartoon. Spoof Jeff MacNelly editorial cartoon. Spoof priced at 25 cents.
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Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jody Boyman (photo)
Jody Boyman (photo)
Jody Boyman (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
Berke Breathed; rhinoceros
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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