John Stanley's Tubby

[mamalips]

I was wondering if anyone knew if this book here is volume 2 in a series, as this collects issues 9-12 but I can't see any info online about volumes that contain issues 1-8. Thanks in advance!

Also, if anyone has any Stanley recommendations, please drop them here. I'm just discovering their work.

[teemcgee]

The Wikipedia page looks pretty helpful here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanley_(cartoonist)#Reprint_collections

D&Q was a single Tubby volume, but all the Tubby stories have been collected in the Dark Horse Lulu series. Back in the day these used to be easy to pick up, and esp the B&W volumes would give you a concentrated dose of Lulu comics, but looks like they are now all OOP with prices to match. The newer D&Q Little Lulu volumes look like the obvious next place!

[mamalips]

Thanks again Travis for helping me out! Still seems so odd that D&Q wouldn't start with issue 1. Maybe Dark Horse still have copyrights?

[BubblesZine]

The Dark Horse collections of Tubby are great, all in color, unlike most of the Lulu volumes they did. Here's what's inside those:

The Castaway: Four Color #381, #430, #444, #461 and Marge's Tubby: #5 & #6 (so those four colors are technically #1-4)
The Runaway Statue: Marge's Tubby: #7-12
The Frog Boy: Marge's Tubby: #13-18
The Atomic Violin: Marge's Tubby: #19-24

I imagine D&Q is just starting where the meat is. I haven't read these in a while, but it's normal to start in the middle. Like how Fanta is started it's Bark's collections with Volume 7 (Lost in the Andes). And with Tubby it's not like there's a story to follow.

The collection looks nice!

[manoopuesta]

Jul 6, 2022 19:01:39 GMT mamalips said:

Also, if anyone has any Stanley recommendations, please drop them here. I'm just discovering their work.

I haven't read the whole series, but Thirteen Going on Eighteen is a really sweet comic, and probably my favorite from John Stanley.

[disneyweirdness]

My kid has one of the Dark Horse Tubby volumes and it's his all-time favorite comic book. He liked the John Stanley Nancy OK, but the Tubby-centric Little Lulu comics are where it's at