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The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 7

Compendium

Published: October 6, 2026

Coverage: Dailies & Sundays · Sundays in colour

Comics: 322 strips

Contains the complete final year of strips (1995-1996). Seventh of seven sets.

Date Ranges
February 13, 1995 – December 31, 1995
Arcs

1995

Feb 13–14
Calvin and Hobbes discuss smells and animal words for them.
Mar 14–15
Calvin is attacked by a baseball with teeth.
Mar 20 – Apr 1
Susie must stay at Calvin's house, and he plots to trap her.
Apr 19–20
Calvin receives letters he wrote to his future self.
Apr 24–27
Calvin reads Chewing magazine about fitness and gear for gum chewing.
May 15–20
Calvin blows soap bubbles that behave oddly.
May 16–19
Calvin's baseball bites his glove and bat.
May 29–30
Calvin and Susie dread their rumored-deadly substitute teacher.
Jun 19–25
Dad teaches a terrified Calvin to ride a bicycle.
Jul 3–6
Calvin gives Hobbes a library book, then reads it himself.
Jul 13–15
Calvin pontificates about art as a suburban post-modernist.
Jul 24–26
Calvin rants about violence in popular culture.
Aug 14–15
Calvin tries to hide water balloons from Susie and Hobbes.
Sep 4–16
Rosalyn babysits and plays Calvinball with Calvin.
Sep 20–21
Dad rants about too many grocery product choices.
Oct 2–21
Calvin trades Earth to aliens for a leaf collection.
Nov 17–18
Calvin looks at his baby photos with Hobbes.
Dec 5–9
Calvin writes letters to Santa and tries to seem good.
Dec 12–13
Calvin boasts about his huge snowball stockpile.
Dec 19–23
The aliens return to protest Earth's snowy winters.

Extras

  • Two paperback books in archival slipcase
  • Cover art selected by Bill Watterson
  • Bonus gallery of stories, poems, and archival art

Links

Andrews McMeel Publishing
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