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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Complete Collection

Published: October 4, 2005

Coverage: Dailies & Sundays · Sundays in colour

Comics: 3150 strips

Hardcover: 3 volumes. Contains all strips except Nov 28, 1985 washing machine original. Some strips have altered text.

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Date Ranges
November 18, 1985 – May 4, 1991
February 2, 1992 – April 2, 1994
January 1, 1995 – December 31, 1995
Arcs

1985

Nov 18–19
Calvin traps a tiger, Hobbes, in the backyard with a sandwich-baited rope.
Dec 3–6
Susie Derkins joins Calvin's class and he immediately insults her.
Dec 23–25
Calvin readies for Santa on Christmas Eve but forgets Hobbes's gift.

1986

Jan 2–3
Calvin and Hobbes discuss kissing girls and what makes them attractive.
Jan 13–18
Susie's passed notes land her and Calvin in the principal's office.
Jan 27–28
Calvin floods the house, and Dad's poll numbers drop.
Jan 30 – Feb 1
Moe the class bully takes Calvin's ball and swing.
Feb 12–14
Calvin sends Susie a hate-mail valentine with dumpster flowers.
Mar 4–6
Alone for an evening, Calvin and Hobbes rent a scary movie.
Mar 13–14
Calvin tries to get an outrageous haircut from the barber.
Mar 31 – Apr 1
Calvin gets a checkup at the doctor's office.
Apr 18–19
Calvin goes fishing at the pier with little success.
May 12–13
Calvin the human insect shows off his insect strength.
May 15–17
Rosalyn babysits, locks Calvin in the garage, and he ambushes her car.
May 19–22
Calvin and Hobbes get lost on a Cub Scout outing.
May 26–31
A dog steals Hobbes, and Susie rescues him for her tea party.
Jun 3–4
Calvin asks Hobbes to eat Moe, who's coming to beat him up.
Jun 12–13
Calvin's bath turns into a shark-infested adventure.
Jun 18–19
Calvin and Hobbes play rowdy shooting games.
Jul 7–17
The family's lakeside cabin vacation bores Calvin and Mom, delights Dad.
Jul 21–26
Calvin hates swimming lessons taught by Rosalyn.
Jul 28–30
Calvin brushes off Susie, then lets her play.
Aug 11–14
Calvin and Hobbes try to freeze their faces in hideous expressions.
Aug 28–29
Calvin drinks an elixir and turns invisible.
Sep 1–4
Calvin tries to ride his new bicycle, which seems to attack him.
Sep 22–25
Moe extorts Calvin's money until Mom calls the school.
Sep 29 – Oct 1
Calvin tries to teach Hobbes to act cool.
Oct 29 – Nov 1
Calvin and Hobbes prepare for Halloween and suffer the candy afterward.
Nov 3–8
Mom falls ill and Calvin and Dad struggle to care for her.
Nov 10–21
Calvin plays an onion in the school play but gets stuck in his costume.
Dec 1–6
Calvin and Hobbes provoke Rosalyn and are sent to bed early.
Dec 17–19
Calvin and Hobbes consult a Ouija board.
Dec 22–23
Calvin sculpts a clay Christmas present for his parents.

1987

Jan 12–17
Calvin calls Susie a name, feels guilty, and apologizes.
Jan 19–30
Hobbes is invited to Susie's birthday party and Calvin tags along.
Feb 2–4
Calvin's bad report card means mandatory homework time.
Feb 23–28
Calvin styles his hair with Crisco and paints his stomach for school pictures.
Mar 2–6
Calvin fakes amnesia after a bad test score.
Mar 9–18
Calvin and Hobbes find an injured baby raccoon and then grieve its death.
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.
Jul 18–28
Calvin wanders off at the zoo and Dad finds him at the tigers.
Aug 2–3
Hobbes's sudden pounces leave Calvin jumpy and on edge.
Aug 8–17
Calvin tries to fix the bathroom faucet and floods the bathroom.
Sep 5–8
Calvin grumbles about school starting again.
Sep 12 – Oct 1
Calvin and Hobbes flee polluted Earth for Mars, then return.
Oct 10–19
Calvin gets sick at night and stays home from school.
Nov 2–3
Calvin gets his Stupendous Man costume.
Nov 23–25
Calvin announces he is in a bad mood and no one cares.
Dec 14–17
Calvin makes faces while Dad tries to take a Christmas card photo.
Dec 28–29
Calvin dresses oddly for school and gets in mysterious trouble.

1989

Jan 16–21
Calvin tries to skip school as Spaceman Spiff but gets caught.
Feb 6–18
Calvin holds Rosalyn's study notes hostage in the bathroom.
Feb 27 – Mar 18
Calvin eats endless cereal to get a propeller beanie that won't fly.
Mar 20 – Apr 7
Calvin fakes a forgotten insect collection and gets Susie in trouble.
Apr 17–21
Calvin gets the hiccups and Hobbes tries to scare them away.
Apr 24 – May 13
Calvin's family returns from a wedding to find the house burgled.
May 15 – Jun 10
Calvin starts a club, rolls the car into a ditch, and runs away.
Jun 19–23
Calvin and Hobbes rush cleaning his room by stuffing everything in the closet.
Jul 17–29
The family endures another miserable camping trip on Itchy Island.
Aug 9–12
The family visits the natural history museum.
Aug 28 – Sep 2
Calvin and Hobbes try to build a robot to make his bed.
Sep 4–8
Calvin endures his first day back at school.
Sep 11–21
Moe steals Calvin's toy truck and Calvin cannot get it back.
Sep 25 – Oct 7
Calvin tricks Rosalyn outside and locks her out.
Oct 9–14
Stupendous Man fries Calvin's school with a giant telescope lens.
Oct 18–19
Dad talks to Calvin about his report card and homework.
Oct 27 – Nov 4
Calvin bluffs his way through a school report on bats.
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 11–23
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.
Feb 25 – Mar 2
Tracer Bullet investigates who broke the living room lamp.
Mar 18 – Apr 3
Calvin duplicates his good side, which falls for Susie.
Apr 8–10
Calvin demands to be called Calvin the Bold.
Apr 22 – May 1
G.R.O.S.S. splits over the anthem and then ambushes Susie with rotten apples.

1992

Feb 10–12
Calvin boasts that skipping homework boosts his self-esteem.
Feb 19–20
Calvin builds pretentious avant-garde snowmen and seeks a grant.
Mar 4–7
Calvin discovers the joys of mud and tracks it everywhere.
Mar 19–21
Calvin insists on being called Calvin, Boy of Destiny.
Mar 25–26
Calvin flubs Miss Wormwood's history questions.
Apr 9–10
Dad fixes his bicycle and heads out in full riding gear.
Apr 13–25
Calvin trusts astrology until a horoscope has Susie finding him irresistible.
May 4–8
Calvin subscribes to a magazine for gum chewers.
May 20 – Jun 6
Calvin time-travels to get his homework story written by future selves.
Jun 15–17
Calvin sells great ideas from a sidewalk booth.
Jun 22–27
Calvin and Hobbes sculpt with modeling clay.
Jul 6–7
Calvin sees a cloud shaped like himself and fears an omen.
Jul 20–22
Calvin raves about his Captain Steroid comic books.
Aug 17–22
Calvin tries to cope with the monsters under his bed.
Aug 25–26
Calvin starts a journal of his brilliant thoughts.
Sep 16–18
Calvin stages photos to fake a well-adjusted childhood.
Sep 23–24
Calvin complains about going to school.
Sep 28–30
Calvin uses denial to dodge homework and baths.
Oct 23–25
Calvin and Hobbes squabble over a football.
Oct 26–28
Calvin enjoys his routine at school recess.
Oct 30–31
Calvin fumbles and flubs football again.
Nov 2–14
Calvin gets coded hate mail that turns out to be from Hobbes.
Dec 8–11
Calvin writes manipulative letters to Santa.
Dec 17–24
Calvin tries to be good to impress Santa.

1993

Jan 4–6
Calvin refuses to get out of bed and dreads school.
Feb 22 – Mar 6
Stupendous Man takes over Calvin's history test after Calvin gets stuck in his locker.
Apr 26 – May 8
Calvin enters a school traffic safety poster contest with a gory poster.
May 17–22
Calvin tries to eat five worms for Susie's nickel until Mom stops him.
Jun 1–2
Calvin complains that nobody likes people who see the big picture.
Jun 9–10
After Calvin hangs up on a caller, Mom wants an answering machine.
Jul 6–7
Calvin poses as the world's most powerful computer in a cardboard box.
Aug 2–21
G.R.O.S.S. plots a fake-code water balloon ambush on Susie, which backfires.
Aug 30 – Sep 2
Calvin battles his bicycle, which he is convinced is out to get him.
Oct 11–12
Calvin sees that commercials sell attitude rather than products.
Oct 20–21
Calvin refuses mere happiness and demands euphoria.
Oct 25–29
Calvin makes Moe, Dad, Miss Wormwood, Susie, and Hobbes sign contracts.
Oct 30 – Nov 1
Dad claims fathers get a book that explains everything.
Nov 15 – Dec 4
Calvin enlarges his brain with a thinking cap to write a tyrannosaur report.
Dec 14–16
Calvin writes complaining, scheming letters to Santa.
Dec 17–25
Calvin struggles not to throw snowballs before Christmas.

1994

Jan 27–28
Calvin sasses his way through a Plymouth Rock history test.
Feb 3–5
Calvin repeats everything Hobbes says to annoy him until Hobbes turns the tables.
Mar 7–19
Calvin dreams his homework burns, then dodges doing it through a snow day.

1995

Jan 16–17
Calvin complains about school on both gray and sunny days.
Feb 6–7
Calvin loses a baby tooth and schemes for tooth fairy money.
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

  • 14-page introduction by Bill Watterson
  • A Nauseous Nocturne (illustrated poem; from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
  • The Yukon Song (from Yukon Ho!)
  • Spaceman Spiff: Interplanetary Explorer Extraordinaire! (10-page story; from The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book)
  • Calvin Becomes an Elephant (illustrated story; from The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)
  • "I made a big decision..." (illustrated poem from The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes)
  • Front cover: Calvin and Hobbes
  • Front cover: Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
  • Front and reverse cover: Yukon Ho!
  • Front and reverse cover: Weirdos From Another Planet!
  • Front and reverse cover: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
  • Front and reverse cover: Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"
  • Front and reverse cover: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
  • Reverse cover: The Days Are Just Packed
  • Front and reverse cover: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
  • Front and reverse cover: There's Treasure Everywhere
  • Front cover: It's a Magical World
  • Front and reverse cover: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
  • Front and reverse cover: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
  • Reverse cover: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
  • Front and reverse cover: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
  • Original colour endpaper illustrations in each volume
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