Other printings & variants
But This War Had Such Promise (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]
Third Printing
February 1974 · 1.50 USD · 132 pages
ISBN 0-03-007521-1
Synopsis
During the Vietnam War, B.D. meets “Phred the Terrorist”; Zonker becomes a war correspondent; Mike and his friends start up the Walden Commune (and Walden Puddle).
Credits
- Script
- Garry Trudeau
- Pencils
- Garry Trudeau
- Inks
- Garry Trudeau, Don Carlton
- See notes
- Garry Trudeau
- Uncredited, see notes
- Don Carlton
Notes
Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between December 27th 1971 and June 27th 1972.
Later printings, format changes to 6 1/8" x 8 1/4" paperbacks, with new cover art, subtitled A Doonesbury Classic. Later printings of that format would be published under the Owl Books imprint. Repackaged as two mass paperback titles from Popular Library: Bravo for Life's Little Ironies and I Have No Son.
Story continued from The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think (A Doonesbury Book)(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 series) #[nn]. Continues in Call Me When You Find America (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 series) #[nn].
Dimensions of 3rd printing are 5⅛” × 7⅞”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with “Call Me When You Find America.”