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* On April Fools' Day 1997, almost every syndicated cartoonist traded places with another. Bill Amend (''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'') drew that day's ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'' while the ''Nancy'' team took that day's ''[=FoxTrot=]''. The strip that they drew does not appear in the compilation ''Welcome to Jasorassic Park'', though; in its place are the chewed-up corners of the strip and a flock of "Quincyraptors" (a reference to a ''Film/JurassicPark'' pastiche in that same compilation, wherein each dinosaur resembles Quincy).
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* On April Fools' Day 1997, almost every syndicated cartoonist traded places with another. Bill Amend (''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'') drew that day's ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'' while the ''Nancy'' team took that day's ''[=FoxTrot=]''. The strip that they drew does not appear in the compilation ''Welcome to Jasorassic Park'', though; in its place are the chewed-up corners of the strip and a flock of "Quincyraptors" (a reference to a ''Film/JurassicPark'' ''[[Film/JurassicPark1993 Jurassic Park]]'' pastiche in that same compilation, wherein each dinosaur resembles Quincy).
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* There is a missing strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' that was printed only in half of the papers running the strip, while the other half had another unique strip, which was never reprinted in the book collections. [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg Here they are.]] (It's likely this was done so as not to encourage child readers to actually try to bathe in the washing machine.)
* At one point in Floyd Gottfredson's ''Mickey Mouse'' newspaper strip, Mickey, believing that Minnie is leaving him for another man, sinks into a depression so deep he spends a week attempting to commit ''suicide''. After a week of failure, he decides he might be overreacting a little. You can imagine that this sequence is left out in the reprint of the story arc, and it is completely absent from D23's newspaper strip archive.
** It was left out in a 1998 comic book reprint and on the D23 website, but the relatively recent Floyd Gottfredson Library reprint (2011) left the sequence intact.
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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', unsurprisingly given its tendency to self-awareness and fourth-wall breaking, is a rare case of work of fiction to have a LampshadeHanging about a Missing Episode. Pig once tried digging to the other side of the Earth to a fictional country and he says that the original comic strips where he named a country [[spoiler:"China"]] were removed. They were shown in one of the Pearls books. In fact, many ''Pearls'' books contain comic strips that were not printed because they were deemed too offensive or simply not funny by the creator himself. These include one where Pig talks about "ho's" (referring to Ho Chi Minh) or other edited versions where the character Cathy is beheaded.
* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': Sadly many strips from this title are missing entirely, with not even the author, Ewen Bain's, estate having copies of them; mainly the gag-a-day strips, the longer arcs are a little more complete. Newspaper comics were seen at that time as a disposable medium. A few compilation books do exist though, with the surviving storylines.
* There is a missing strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' that was printed only in half of the papers running the strip, while the other half had another unique strip, which was never reprinted in the book collections. [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg Here they are.]] (It's likely this was done so as not to encourage child readers to actually try to bathe in the washing machine.)
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have been left out of the compilation as the author thinks they were "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
* There is a missing strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' that was printed only in half of the papers running the strip, while the other half had another unique strip, which was never reprinted in the book collections. [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg Here they are.]] (It's likely this was done so as not to encourage child readers to actually try to bathe in the washing machine.)
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have been left out of the compilation as the author thinks they were "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': Sadly many strips from this title are missing entirely, with not even the author, Ewen Bain's, estate having copies of them; mainly the gag-a-day strips, the longer arcs are a little more complete. Newspaper comics were seen at that time as a disposable medium. A few compilation books do exist though, with the surviving storylines.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have been left out of the compilation as the author thinks they were "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have been left out of the compilation as the author thinks they were "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': Sadly many strips from At one point in Floyd Gottfredson's ''Franchise/MickeyMouse'' newspaper strip, Mickey, believing that Minnie is leaving him for another man, sinks into a depression so deep he spends a week attempting to commit ''suicide''. After a week of failure, he decides he might be overreacting a little. You can imagine that this title are missing entirely, with not even the author, Ewen Bain's, estate having copies of them; mainly the gag-a-day strips, the longer arcs are a little more complete. Newspaper comics were seen at that time as a disposable medium. A few compilation books do exist though, with the surviving storylines.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have beensequence is left out in the reprint of the compilation as story arc, and it is completely absent from D23's newspaper strip archive.
** It was left out in a 1998 comic book reprint and on theauthor thinks D23 website, but the relatively recent Floyd Gottfredson Library reprint (2011) left the sequence intact.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', unsurprisingly given its tendency to self-awareness and fourth-wall breaking, is a rare case of work of fiction to have a LampshadeHanging about a Missing Episode. Pig once tried digging to the other side of the Earth to a fictional country and he says that the original comic strips where he named a country [[spoiler:"China"]] were removed. They were shown in one of the Pearls books. In fact, many ''Pearls'' books contain comic strips that were not printed because they were"very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.deemed too offensive or simply not funny by the creator himself. These include one where Pig talks about "ho's" (referring to Ho Chi Minh) or other edited versions where the character Cathy is beheaded.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, have been
** It was left out in a 1998 comic book reprint and on the
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', unsurprisingly given its tendency to self-awareness and fourth-wall breaking, is a rare case of work of fiction to have a LampshadeHanging about a Missing Episode. Pig once tried digging to the other side of the Earth to a fictional country and he says that the original comic strips where he named a country [[spoiler:"China"]] were removed. They were shown in one of the Pearls books. In fact, many ''Pearls'' books contain comic strips that were not printed because they were
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** The last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn". While all of the ''U.S. Acres'' strips were later circulated on Go Comics, the October 13, 1986 strip was edited to remove a prompt for a contest entry.
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** The last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn". While all of the ''U.S. Acres'' strips were later circulated on Go Comics, [=GoComics=], the October 13, 1986 strip was edited to remove a prompt for a contest entry.
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* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website). This may be due to the May 2, 1990 strip containing the line "Your lips said 'no' but your eyes said 'yes'".
** In terms of other works by Jim Davis, the last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn".
** Davis' pre-''Garfield'' strip ''Gnorm Gnat'' is believed to be almost completely gone from existence. At last report, Davis himself [[OldShame doesn't mind one bit.]]
** In terms of other works by Jim Davis, the last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn".
** Davis' pre-''Garfield'' strip ''Gnorm Gnat'' is believed to be almost completely gone from existence. At last report, Davis himself [[OldShame doesn't mind one bit.]]
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* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has quite a few examples:
** Jim Davis' first strip, ''ComicStrip/GnormGnat'', only ran in a single paper (the ''Pendleton Times-Post'') in the mid-1970s. Despite a large number of references to it over the years, the actual strip has been near impossible to find. Davis included one strip and images of the characters in the ''Garfield'' anthology ''20 Years & Still Kicking! Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection'', but no other strips were known to have circulated until 2019. Davis has long considered ''Gnorm Gnat'' an OldShame anyway.
** ''Gnorm Gnat'' was replaced by ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'' in the ''Times-Post'' from 1976-78. This strip had prototypes of the cast, along with many gags later given a PopularityRedo in ''Garfield''. Being so short-lived, it fell victim to this so hard that its mere ''existence'' was unknown until 2019 (the same point at which several ''Gnorm Gnat'' strips were unearthed).
** The ''Garfield'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website). This may be due to the May 2, 1990 strip containing the line "Your lips said 'no' but your eyes said 'yes'".
**In terms of other works by Jim Davis, the The last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn".
** Davis' pre-''Garfield''Corn". While all of the ''U.S. Acres'' strips were later circulated on Go Comics, the October 13, 1986 strip ''Gnorm Gnat'' is believed was edited to be almost completely gone from existence. At last report, Davis himself [[OldShame doesn't mind one bit.]]remove a prompt for a contest entry.
** Jim Davis' first strip, ''ComicStrip/GnormGnat'', only ran in a single paper (the ''Pendleton Times-Post'') in the mid-1970s. Despite a large number of references to it over the years, the actual strip has been near impossible to find. Davis included one strip and images of the characters in the ''Garfield'' anthology ''20 Years & Still Kicking! Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection'', but no other strips were known to have circulated until 2019. Davis has long considered ''Gnorm Gnat'' an OldShame anyway.
** ''Gnorm Gnat'' was replaced by ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'' in the ''Times-Post'' from 1976-78. This strip had prototypes of the cast, along with many gags later given a PopularityRedo in ''Garfield''. Being so short-lived, it fell victim to this so hard that its mere ''existence'' was unknown until 2019 (the same point at which several ''Gnorm Gnat'' strips were unearthed).
** The ''Garfield'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website). This may be due to the May 2, 1990 strip containing the line "Your lips said 'no' but your eyes said 'yes'".
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** Davis' pre-''Garfield''
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* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website).
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* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website). This may be due to the May 2, 1990 strip containing the line "Your lips said 'no' but your eyes said 'yes'".
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* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, has been left outside from the compilation as the author think they was "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, has have been left outside from out of the compilation as the author think thinks they was were "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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* There is a missing strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' that was printed only in half of the papers running the strip, while the other half had another unique strip, which was never reprinted in the book collections. [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg Here they are.]] (It's likely this was done so as not to encourage child readers to actually try to bathe in the washing machine.)
* At one point in Floyd Gottfredson's ''Mickey Mouse'' newspaper strip, Mickey, believing that Minnie is leaving him for another man, sinks into a depression so deep he spends a week attempting to commit ''suicide''. After a week of failure, he decides he might be overreacting a little. You can imagine that this sequence is left out in the reprint of the story arc, and it is completely absent from D23's newspaper strip archive.
** It was left out in a 1998 comic book reprint and on the D23 website, but the relatively recent Floyd Gottfredson Library reprint (2011) left the sequence intact.
* Traditionally, most newspaper comics were not re-published in complete form when packaged as books, leading to many strips that were published once in papers and never seen again. (Among other reasons, it allowed editors to cull out weaker or more controversial strips.) ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is a good example -- a large percentage of strips were never republished in book form until the release of the "premium" complete collections.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', unsurprisingly given its tendency to self-awareness and fourth-wall breaking, is a rare case of work of fiction to have a LampshadeHanging about a Missing Episode. Pig once tried digging to the other side of the Earth to a fictional country and he says that the original comic strips where he named a country [[spoiler:"China"]] were removed. They were shown in one of the Pearls books. In fact, many ''Pearls'' books contain comic strips that were not printed because they were deemed too offensive or simply not funny by the creator himself. These include one where Pig talks about "ho's" (referring to Ho Chi Minh) or other edited versions where the character Cathy is beheaded.
* On April Fools' Day 1997, almost every syndicated cartoonist traded places with another. Bill Amend (''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'') drew that day's ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'' while the ''Nancy'' team took that day's ''[=FoxTrot=]''. The strip that they drew does not appear in the compilation ''Welcome to Jasorassic Park'', though; in its place are the chewed-up corners of the strip and a flock of "Quincyraptors" (a reference to a ''Film/JurassicPark'' pastiche in that same compilation, wherein each dinosaur resembles Quincy).
* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website).
** In terms of other works by Jim Davis, the last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn".
** Davis' pre-''Garfield'' strip ''Gnorm Gnat'' is believed to be almost completely gone from existence. At last report, Davis himself [[OldShame doesn't mind one bit.]]
* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': Sadly many strips from this title are missing entirely, with not even the author, Ewen Bain's, estate having copies of them; mainly the gag-a-day strips, the longer arcs are a little more complete. Newspaper comics were seen at that time as a disposable medium. A few compilation books do exist though, with the surviving storylines.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, has been left outside from the compilation as the author think they was "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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* There is a missing strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' that was printed only in half of the papers running the strip, while the other half had another unique strip, which was never reprinted in the book collections. [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg Here they are.]] (It's likely this was done so as not to encourage child readers to actually try to bathe in the washing machine.)
* At one point in Floyd Gottfredson's ''Mickey Mouse'' newspaper strip, Mickey, believing that Minnie is leaving him for another man, sinks into a depression so deep he spends a week attempting to commit ''suicide''. After a week of failure, he decides he might be overreacting a little. You can imagine that this sequence is left out in the reprint of the story arc, and it is completely absent from D23's newspaper strip archive.
** It was left out in a 1998 comic book reprint and on the D23 website, but the relatively recent Floyd Gottfredson Library reprint (2011) left the sequence intact.
* Traditionally, most newspaper comics were not re-published in complete form when packaged as books, leading to many strips that were published once in papers and never seen again. (Among other reasons, it allowed editors to cull out weaker or more controversial strips.) ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is a good example -- a large percentage of strips were never republished in book form until the release of the "premium" complete collections.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', unsurprisingly given its tendency to self-awareness and fourth-wall breaking, is a rare case of work of fiction to have a LampshadeHanging about a Missing Episode. Pig once tried digging to the other side of the Earth to a fictional country and he says that the original comic strips where he named a country [[spoiler:"China"]] were removed. They were shown in one of the Pearls books. In fact, many ''Pearls'' books contain comic strips that were not printed because they were deemed too offensive or simply not funny by the creator himself. These include one where Pig talks about "ho's" (referring to Ho Chi Minh) or other edited versions where the character Cathy is beheaded.
* On April Fools' Day 1997, almost every syndicated cartoonist traded places with another. Bill Amend (''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'') drew that day's ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'' while the ''Nancy'' team took that day's ''[=FoxTrot=]''. The strip that they drew does not appear in the compilation ''Welcome to Jasorassic Park'', though; in its place are the chewed-up corners of the strip and a flock of "Quincyraptors" (a reference to a ''Film/JurassicPark'' pastiche in that same compilation, wherein each dinosaur resembles Quincy).
* For some reason, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' trade books never covered May 2–5, 1990 — ''Garfield Takes Up Space'' stops on May 1, and ''Garfield Says a Mouthful'' starts on May 6. This is also true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of both books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on the website).
** In terms of other works by Jim Davis, the last 50 strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' were never published in book form in the USA. The last strips (except for a Sunday strip where Wade crushes Booker's playset of a barn) were published in the United Kingdom in the book "Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn".
** Davis' pre-''Garfield'' strip ''Gnorm Gnat'' is believed to be almost completely gone from existence. At last report, Davis himself [[OldShame doesn't mind one bit.]]
* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': Sadly many strips from this title are missing entirely, with not even the author, Ewen Bain's, estate having copies of them; mainly the gag-a-day strips, the longer arcs are a little more complete. Newspaper comics were seen at that time as a disposable medium. A few compilation books do exist though, with the surviving storylines.
* Mexican comic strip ''El Cerdotado'': Strips 80 to 83, originally published in "El Diario de Monterrey" newspaper, has been left outside from the compilation as the author think they was "very lame" (Pasarse de chafas), and are currently unavailable.
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