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Issue: Garfield #1
Publication Date: March 1980
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Issues: #1 of 73 Issues (85 Printings)
Title: Garfield at Large
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagRandom House
Brand: Ballantine Books
Indicia Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale Date: 02/21/1980
Volume:
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0345287797
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
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Content Items: 6 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Multiple printings exist. The publication date is for the first printing.
Indexed from a 16th printing: price = 4.95 USD; 5.95 CAD. This printing has a deep red cover with slightly yellow title text, slight differences from our scan.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-93191.
Copyright 1980 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior (#1-36); color interior (#37-up)
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.25 inches (#1-36); 8.5 x 9 inches (#37-up)
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Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Garfield
Synopsis: Garfield resents the title of the book.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pages: 2
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Title page and publishing information page.
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Look Inside This Book And See This Cat...

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Garfield
Synopsis: A listing of the typical things Garfield does in the book.
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Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jon Arbuckle; Garfield; Lyman; Odie; Pooky; Santa Claus
First Line: Hi, There...I'm Jon Arbuckle
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Reprint Notes: from Garfield daily and Sunday strips (United Feature Syndicate) 1978.06.19 - 1980.01.21
Miscellaneous
Pages: 125
Disclose Notes: Selected cartoons from 1978,1979, and 1980 including the first cartoon introducing Jon and Garfield.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Garfield
Synopsis: Promotional text with 4 single panel cartoons of Garfield quotes.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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