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The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 2

Compendium

Published: March 5, 2024

Coverage: Dailies & Sundays · Sundays in colour

Comics: 486 strips

Nearly 500 comics from March 1987 to July 1988. Second of seven sets.

Date Ranges
March 5, 1987 – March 7, 1987
March 15, 1987
March 19, 1987 – June 18, 1988
June 20, 1988 – June 25, 1988
June 27, 1988 – July 2, 1988
July 4, 1988 – July 9, 1988
July 11, 1988 – July 16, 1988
Arcs

1987

Mar 19–21
Bulldozers clear the woods for a condominium development.
Mar 23 – Apr 3
Calvin transmogrifies into a tiger, then changes back.
Apr 6–11
Calvin rips his pants at recess and must go to the chalkboard.
Apr 13–15
A substitute teacher takes over Miss Wormwood's class.
Apr 20–23
Calvin prepares and gives an oral report on the brain with noodles.
Apr 27–30
Calvin and Hobbes play zombies.
May 11–21
Hobbes botches Calvin's haircut and draws hair on his head.
May 26–29
Hobbes pounces on Calvin whenever he comes home.
Jun 15–20
Calvin and Hobbes fly the hallway rug to Dad's office but go unnoticed.
Jul 8–9
Calvin schemes to get cookies from Mom.
Jul 13–18
Susie joins a water fight, and Hobbes defects to her side.
Jul 28–31
Calvin is sick and terrorizes the doctor.
Aug 10–20
The family's camping trip is rained out.
Aug 31 – Sep 11
Calvin's time machine aims for the future but lands among dinosaurs.
Sep 14–30
Calvin secedes from the family, heads for the Yukon, and loses Hobbes.
Oct 5–10
Rosalyn babysits and Calvin tries to escape, then reports hostages.
Oct 13–14
Calvin bothers Susie in class.
Oct 19–24
Calvin brings Hobbes to school to scare off Moe.
Nov 9–10
Calvin digs up Dad's embarrassing past for a character poll.
Nov 23–26
Calvin fears the sun is going out as winter nears.
Nov 30 – Dec 5
Calvin has Hobbes tie him to a chair and cannot escape.
Dec 16–25
Calvin questions Santa's fairness and existence before Christmas.
Dec 30, 1987 – Jan 2, 1988
Calvin and Hobbes build an invulnerable snow fort.

1988

Jan 5–6
Hobbes helps Calvin with his math homework.
Jan 11–22
Dad's brother Max visits and Calvin tries to leave with him.
Jan 25 – Feb 4
Calvin slacks on his planet Mercury report with Susie.
Feb 8–20
Calvin's Transmogrifier Gun malfunctions and leaves him an owl.
Feb 22 – Mar 2
Rosalyn babysits and Calvin makes her earn her pay.
Mar 7–24
Calvin tries living like a tiger until he learns tigers are endangered.
Mar 25–26
Hobbes pounces on Calvin the moment he gets home.
Apr 11–15
Calvin offers to be Dad's image consultant after bad polls.
Apr 19–24
Calvin and Hobbes botch building a model Phantom jet.
May 2–12
Calvin and Hobbes dig up litter and build a dinosaur from it.
May 16–26
Calvin breaks Dad's binoculars and agonizes over confessing.
May 30 – Jun 2
Hobbes claims a bee is on Calvin's back, then declares opposite day.
Jun 13–29
The family goes camping and Dad turns grouchy.
Jul 4–15
Calvin floats away on a balloon, then transmogrifies himself home.

Alterations

November 24, 1987 · Text changed

Extras

  • Two 144-page paperback books in archival slipcase
  • Cover art selected by Bill Watterson

Links

Andrews McMeel Publishing
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