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The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 4

Compendium

Published: March 4, 2025

Coverage: Dailies & Sundays · Sundays in colour

Comics: 478 strips

Nearly 500 comics from December 1989 to April 1991. Fourth of seven sets.

Date Ranges
October 29, 1989
November 5, 1989 – February 24, 1991
Arcs

1989

Nov 13 – Dec 2
Calvin's gravity reverses, then he grows until he falls off the Earth.
Dec 11–17
Calvin struggles to be good so Santa will bring presents.
Dec 20–21
Calvin starts a newspaper reporting on household events.

1990

Jan 8 – Feb 1
Calvin duplicates himself, and the clones multiply and cause trouble.
Feb 2–3
Calvin gets caught throwing snowballs at Susie and others.
Feb 5–10
Tracer Bullet investigates a math word problem about two trains of thought.
Feb 20–22
Calvin pursues ever more abstract snow sculpture.
Mar 26 – Apr 12
Calvin fights babysitter Rosalyn as Stupendous Man and gets punished.
Apr 17 – May 5
Moe pressures Calvin into joining the recess baseball team.
May 21–26
Spaceman Spiff ditches school, then gets in trouble for it.
Jun 11–16
Calvin catches chicken pox.
Jun 18–23
Dad bans TV, so Calvin is forced to play outside.
Jun 25 – Jul 7
Calvin and Hobbes time travel to photograph Jurassic dinosaurs.
Jul 12–21
Calvin is stalked by his supposedly murderous bicycle.
Aug 20 – Sep 8
Calvin plots against Susie and ransoms her doll, and she retaliates.
Sep 10–29
After a parent-teacher conference, Calvin bets Susie on a math quiz and flunks.
Oct 1–5
Calvin pretends he has his own TV show with a cardboard screen.
Oct 22–25
Calvin wears a mask on the back of his head to foil Hobbes' pounces.
Oct 31 – Nov 3
Miss Wormwood objects to Calvin's dinosaur drawings.
Nov 13–17
Calvin scrambles to build a desert diorama for school.
Dec 11–22
Calvin hires Hobbes as his lawyer to prove to Santa he was good.
Dec 31, 1990 – Jan 19, 1991
Calvin brings a snowman to life and it builds an army of snow goons.

1991

Jan 28–31
Calvin insists his body is present but his spirit is unavailable.
Feb 11–16
Stupendous Man drops a giant snowball on Susie, and Mom threatens his costume.

Extras

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

Links

Andrews McMeel Publishing
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