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Issue: "Any Grooming Hints for Your Fans, Rollie?" (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
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Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
On Sale Date: 08/07/1978
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0030448611
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Price: $1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Don Hutter (uncredited, see notes)
Disclose Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between July 4th, 1977, and January 7th, 1978.

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.

Continued from Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978 series) #[nn]. Continues in "But the Pension Fund Was Just Sitting There" (A Doonesbury Book) (Henry Holt and Co., 1979 series) #[nn].

First Printing September 1978. Second Printing January 1979.

In later printings the format changes to 6.125 in. × 8.25 in. paperbacks, with new cover art, subtitled A Doonesbury Classic. Later printings of that format would be published under the Owl Books imprint.

List of "Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau" ends with "Any Grooming Hints for Your Fans, Rollie?"

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
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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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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: oversized paperback; 5.125 in. × 7.875 in.; 6.125 in. × 8.25 in.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint paper
Binding: mass market paperback; trade paperback
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Doonesbury
Mark Slackmeyer; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Doonesbury
Joanie Caucus; Rick Redfern; Lacey Davenport; Zonker Harris; Uncle Duke; Mark Slackmeyer; Miles Potash; B.D.; Kirby; Mike Doonesbury; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr.; Jimmy Thudpucker; Jenny Thudpucker; Feedback Thudpucker; Nichole; Bernie
Joanie continues working on Lacey’s Ethics Committee; Uncle Duke goes into the Laetrile business and lectures young Republicans; Zonker explains the Panama Canal Treaty to the football team; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr., now at ABC Wide World of News, films a mini-documentary on 1977’s “Campus Mood” and covers President Carter’s world tour; Jimmy Thudpucker lays down some disco and appears on “The Midnight Special”; Joanie debates Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment.
Reprinting
from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1977-07-04 - 1978-01-07
Miscellaneous
124
Don Carlton was the inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990, 66). Carlton’s association with Garry 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. “Real Life with Garry Trudeau.” Newsweek, October 15. Microfilm.

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

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