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Issue: But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1983

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Issues: #[nn] of 2 Issues (8 Printings)

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Variant: Twelfth 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: 0030075211

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Price: $5.25 USD

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

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between December 27th 1971 and June 27th 1972.

Later printings, format changes to 6⅛” × 8¼” paperbacks, with new cover art, subtitled A Doonesbury Classic. Later printings of that format would be published under the Owl Books imprint.
Repackaged as two mass paperback titles from Popular Library: Bravo for Life's Little Ironies and I Have No Son.

Story continued from The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think (A Doonesbury Book)(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 series) #[nn]. Continues in Call Me When You Find America (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 series) #[nn].

Dimensions of twelfth printing are 6⅛” × 8¼”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with “The Wreck of the ‘Rusty Nail.’” 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 and White interior

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

Paper Stock: book paper; newsprint; Cardstock cover

Binding: Squarebound; trade paperback

Publishing Format: Collected Edition

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2 But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [unnamed variant]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Fourth Printing]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Second Printing]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Third Printing]

But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Twelfth Printing]

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Content Items (4 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau]

Inker(s): Don Carlton (uncredited)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Pages: 1

But This War Had Such Promise

Credits on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Mike Doonesbury; Benjy Doonesbury (first appearance); Bernie; Didi Robins; Rev. Scot Sloan; B.D.; Rufus "Thor" Jackson; Barbara Ann "Boopsie" Boopstein; George (first appearance); Phred (first appearance); Mark Slackmeyer; Zonker Harris; Phil Slackmeyer; Marilou Slackmeyer; Nichole

Synopsis: During the Vietnam War, B.D. meets "Phred the Terrorist"; Zonker becomes a war correspondent; Mike and his friends start up the Walden Commune (and Walden Puddle).

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1971-12-27 - 1972-06-27.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Much of this material reprinted in a different format in Bravo for Life’s Little Ironies (A Doonesbury Book) (Popular Library, 1973 Series) #[nn] and I Have No Son (A Doonesbury Book) (Popular Library, 1973 Series) #[nn].

Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Newspaper publication of Carlton’s work began “in early December [1971]”; Carlton initially lettered the strip for only a few weeks before Trudeau resumed lettering the strip. After about a year of Carlton inks and Trudeau letters, Trudeau again delegated lettering to Carlton, and the arrangement endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31). GCD’s letters credits reflect that the time period covered by this volume appears to begin during the “few weeks” of Carlton’s initial inking and lettering stint, and appears to end during the year in which Trudeau lettered and Carlton inked.
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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.