This is the first collection of the "Doonesbury" syndicated strips, and begins a truly groundbreaking masterwork of an American comic strip. Michael Doonesbury and company are college students, with Mike beginning syndicated life as an inept ladie's man, but settling down soon to the nerdish nebbish we know and love. This book introduces (of course) Mike Doonesbury, his football-jock roommate B.D., Mark Slackmeyer, campus activist, President King, beleaguered leader of the college, Mark's reactionary father Phil, Bernie, Mike's eccentric genius of a lab partner (and later boss), and Rufus, the black ghetto kid Mike tutors to assuage his liberal guilt feelings. ( )