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Issue: The Wreck of the "Rusty Nail" (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1983
 
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Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Pages: 132
ISBN: 0030617324
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Disclose Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comic strips originally published between December 15, 1981 and June 26, 1982.
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Color: Color Cover; Black & White Interior
Dimensions: 6⅛” × 8¼”
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Doonesbury
Duke; Honey
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Inside front cover.
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Listing of other Doonesbury books available.
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Doonesbury
Duke; Honey
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humorous
Doonesbury
Duke; Honey; Mike Doonesbury; J.J. Caucus; Rick Redfern; Benjamin "Benjy" Doonesbury; Mark Slackmeyer; Zonker Harris; B.D.; Bernie; Joanie Caucus; Lacey Davenport
Many storylines, including: Joanie and Rick find out they are having a baby. Duke and Honey buy a boat and try to run drugs and also charter trips and eventually end up shipwrecked on a deserted island.
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from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1981-12-15 - 1982-06-26
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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.
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Quote from the New York Daily News about the Doonesbury strip.

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