Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book)
#[nn]
[First Printing]
(1978)
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1978 Series
- Price
- 1.95 USD
- Pages
- 132
- On-sale Date
- 1978-02-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- ISBN
-
0-03-042876-9
- Editing
- Don Hutter (uncredited, see notes)
Issue 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.
This issue has variants:
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.
________
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.
This issue has variants:
- Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978 series) #[nn] [Second Printing]
- Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978 series) #[nn] [Fourth Printing]
- Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978 series) #[nn] [Sixth Printing]
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Doonesbury / comic story / 124 pages
- Script
- Garry Trudeau (signed)
- Pencils
- Garry Trudeau (signed)
- Inks
- Don Carlton (uncredited, see note)
- Letters
- Don Carlton (uncredited, see note)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lacey Davenport; Dick Davenport; Virginia "Ginny" Slade; Joanie Caucus; Clyde; Rick Redfern; Uncle Duke; Honey Huan; Jimmy Thudpucker; Jenny Thudpucker (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); Barney Perkins (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); Weinburger (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); Duane Delacourt (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection); Woodrow; Cornell (first appearance in a Doonesbury collection)
- 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.
- Reprints
- from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1977-01-03 - 1977-06-02
Indexer Notes
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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