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Issue: But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [redesign 1979]
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Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Pages: 132
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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: book paper; newsprint; Cardstock cover
Binding: Squarebound; trade paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Doonesbury
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1
But This War Had Such Promise

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Doonesbury
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Title page with illustration. Title page art in redesigned book differs from that in book’s original design.
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Doonesbury
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from Doonesbury daily (Universal Press Syndicate) 1971-12-27 - 1972-06-27 [124 daily strips]
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124
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.

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