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Issue: Dare to Be Great, Ms. Caucus (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1981

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Variant: $3.95 Third Printing

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Publisher: Flag

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Brand: An Owl Book

Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 132

ISBN: 0030138663

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $4.95 CAD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published in 1973-1974.

Dimensions of third printing are 6⅛” × 8¼”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with “He’s Never Heard of You, Either.” List of “In Large Format” books ends with “Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits.”

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Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: Color cover; Black and White interior

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

Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; book paper; Newsprint paper

Binding: Squarebound; trade paperback

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2 Dare to Be Great, Ms. Caucus (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [$1.95]

Dare to Be Great, Ms. Caucus (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [$3.95 Third Printing]

Dare to Be Great, Ms. Caucus (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Second Printing]

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Content Items (3 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Joanie Caucus; Ellie; Howie; Harry

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Pages: 1

Dare To Be Great, Ms. Caucus

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.

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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; Phil Slackmeyer; Zonker Harris; Nichole; Joanie Caucus; Ellie; Howie; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); President King; Harry; Lacey (not yet married) Davenport (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); Dick Davenport (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection)

Synopsis: While hitchhiking back to college, Mark helps a trucker organize a protest due to the fuel shortage of 1974; Joanie applies to law school; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. interviews members of Walden commune for an article in Time magazine; The Watergate hearings begin; Dick Davenport proposes to Lacey at an alumni reunion.

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Reprint Notes: from Doonesbury dailies (Universal Press Syndicate) 1973-12-26 - 1974-08-12 [Strips missing]

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Strips are not reprinted in exact order of publication in newspapers.

Some strips that are omitted here are included in other Doonesbury volumes.

Garry Trudeau was assisted by inker Don Carlton (Alter 1990, 66). 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. “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.