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Issue: Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1978
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Variant: First Printing
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Publisher: FlagHolt, Rinehart and Winston
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
On Sale Date: 02/09/1978
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0030428769
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Price: $1.95 USD
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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 January 3rd and July 2nd 1977.

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.

Dimensions of first printing are 5⅛” × 7⅞”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with Stalking the Perfect Tan.

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 & white interior
Dimensions: mass market paperback (5⅛” × 7⅞”, then 6⅛” × 8¼”)
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound; trade paperback
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Doonesbury
Character(s): Zonker Harris; Cornell
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Doonesbury
Character(s): Lacey Davenport; Dick Davenport; Virginia "Ginny" Slade; Joanie Caucus; Clyde; Rick Redfern; Uncle Duke; Honey Huan; Jimmy Thudpucker; Jenny Thudpucker (first appearance); Barney Perkins (first appearance); Weinburger (first appearance); Duane Delacourt (first appearance); Woodrow; Cornell (first appearance)
Synopsis: New Congresswoman Lacey Davenport begins her term in Washington, D.C. and so does President Jimmy Carter; Joanie moves in with Rick, who starts writing at People magazine; The White House appoints a secretary of symbolism, Duane Delacourt; Henry Kissinger takes a job teaching political science; The Thudpuckers have a baby; Joanie graduates from law school and takes a job working on Lacey's Ethics Committee; Zonker returns to the cocoa butter tanning circuit; Uncle Duke gets replaced as U.S. Ambassador to China.
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Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1977-01-03 - 1977-06-02.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 124
Disclose Notes: Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). 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. “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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