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Dailies

A total of 2,700 dates of daily strips, Monday–Saturday.

468 repeats.

Storage

Storage for Dailies:

Eleven 1.5 inch binders

Currency protection pages by BCW

View more about my storage.

Daily lots

My collection was acquired over several lots from several sales and discoveries. Below are some of the larger and more interesting sets.

Daily lot #1: 2,250 strips (including duplicates)

Daily lot #2: 2,700 strips (including duplicates)

Daily lot #3: Collection of strips from UK. Some strips use local language.

Daily lot #4: Lot of mixed strips with a few Calvin and Hobbes dates.

Noteworthy daily strips

How to catch a tiger: November 18, 1985

#owned

The original strip for November 28, 1985, as it appeared in half of the newspapers.

The substituted strip for November 28, 1985.

One curious incident in the early publication of Calvin and Hobbes was that of the alternate strip. On November 28, 1985, only half of the syndicated newspapers published the original comic; the rest got an alternate strip. The original was never reprinted, whether in reruns, the first printed collection, the first treasury, or even The Complete Calvin and Hobbes; all of these feature the alternate strip instead. The original strip is actually the first to feature Hobbes in the washing machine.

The incident was not explained in any commentary by Watterson, interviews, or any other public disclosure by Andrews McMeel. The absence of the strip could be considered censorship, as with the altered comics of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, designed to avoid controversy. In the original strip, Calvin joyfully anticipated going in the washing machine; the syndicate may have been afraid that young readers would imitate him and injure themselves.

British version: Panel 1, the UK version says "...horrible!" instead of "...like bat barf" in the US.

January 7, 1987: The dialogue was changed from "adopted" to "genetically engineered or cloned" because of concerns about comparing adoption to child labor. Curiously, it did not omit references to cannibalism and child labor.

genetically engineered or cloned (coming soon)

May 23, 1987: This strip is missing from Something Under the Bed Is Drooling.
It was reprinted in The Essential Calvin and Hobbes and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

#owned

November 24, 1987: In panel 2, orbit or tilt?

In The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the strip features alternate dialogue. In the second panel, referring to Calvin's dad's explanation for why the weather seems to be getting colder. The dialogue was changed from

"He says it's colder because our hemisphere is tilted away from the sun now." to,
"He says it's colder because the Earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun."

The new, alternate dialogue provides the correct scientific explanation for the existence of seasons like winter. The original dialogue reflects a commonly held but scientifically incorrect misconception.

tilt (coming soon)

November 25, 1988: The dialogue was changed in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes from "biological mother" to "a good mother"

"...a good mother" (coming soon)

January 26, 1990: Five clones were created. The foot of a sixth can be seen in frame 3.

Sabbatical Typo, Complete Typo

"I think you're mom's going to be bothered." Can you spot the typo?

Thanks to Reddit for spotting this notable daily strip.

May 23, 1989 (original publish date)

June 7, 1994: Typo in panel 4. (Sabbatical 2)

The typo was published in the "Complete Calvin and Hobbes" (Volume #, page #)

On GoComics, the typo is fixed.

August 1, 1989: Hobbes recalls knowing Calvin during infant–3 years old. However, in the first strip Calvin appears to be 6-years old already.

Astro boy

November 22, 1990. Some cities printed daily strips in color!

View tear sheets of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on archive.org

View St. Louis Post-Dispatch proof pages

Calvin's Doctor

Do you remember Calvin's doctor from Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes"? Well, the REAL DOCTOR, who the character was based on, visited BICLM to see the Calvin exhibit! He was one of Bill's childhood best friends.

Source: BICLM page on Facebook and post