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The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

Treasury

Published: October 1992

Coverage: Dailies & Sundays · Sundays in colour

Comics: 572 strips

Treasury of Books 5+6. Several illustrated poems. Colour Sundays.

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Date Ranges
November 27, 1988 – November 30, 1988
December 5, 1988 – June 10, 1990
June 17, 1990
June 24, 1990 – June 30, 1990
July 2, 1990 – July 7, 1990
July 15, 1990
Arcs

1988

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.
Oct 18–19
Dad talks to Calvin about his report card and homework.
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 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 25 – Jul 7
Calvin and Hobbes time travel to photograph Jurassic dinosaurs.

Extras

  • Front cover & page 1 art
  • Back/reverse cover art
  • Illustrated poems incl. Christmas Eve
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