Bloom County

    (Little, Brown and Company, 1987)
™ and © 1983 The Washington Post Company

Loose Tails is the first collection of newspaper comic strips that reprints the popular Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed. Bloom County was the forerunner to Outland and the later Opus comic strips. Though originally dismissed as a Doonesbury rip-off, Bloom County quickly came to its own with its wild and zany cast of characters including Steve Dallas, Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat (Breathed’s vicious answer to Garfield) and their wacky goings-on. The book is published by Little, Brown and Company.

— Mark Arnold
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  • 1
    #1
    Apr 1983
    Cover: $5.95
    W: Berkeley Breathed  ·  A: Berkeley Breathed
    Collects strips from the Washington Post; B&W
    1 copy for $1.75
  • 2
    #2
    Cover: $6.95
    W: Berkeley Breathed  ·  A: Berkeley Breathed
    ca. 1984
    2 copies from $1.00
  • 3
    #3
    Mar 1985
    Cover: $6.95
    W: Berkeley Breathed  ·  A: Berkeley Breathed
    Includes Milo’s Album, A Personal Photographic Statement
    1 copy for $4.00
  • 4
    #4
    Sep 1986
    Cover: $12.95
    W: Berkeley Breathed  ·  A: Berkeley Breathed
    Collects strips from the first four books
    1 copy for $12.95
  • 8
    #8
    Mar 1990
    Cover: $8.95
    W: Berkeley Breathed  ·  A: Berkeley Breathed
    Collects the final strips of Bloom County
    1 copy for $4.50