by Johnny Hart

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BC was the invention of Johnny Hart, a talented and much missed cartoonist. I am delighted however that the strip is being continued by his grandsons Mason and Mick Mastroianni and in 2012, a new book was published by Willow Creek Press. I hope there are more to follow.

= In My Collection / = Not in My Collection



Original Landscape Books

1959

Published by Funk & Wagnalls
1961

Published by GP Putnam's Sons
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Fawcett Books
Titles backgrounded white were unique to the US only and not re-published in the UK.

1959

Hey B.C.
1961

Back to B.C.
1962

B.C. Strikes Back
1964

Hurray for B.C.
1968

What's New, B.C.?
1968

Take a Bow, B.C.
1969

B.C. is Alive and Well!
1971

B.C. Big Wheel!
1971

B.C. On the Rocks
1973

B.C. Right On
1973

B.C. Cave In
1973

B.C. One More Time
1974

B.C. It's a Funny World
1974

B.C. Dip in Road
1975

B.C. Life is a Seventy-Five Cent Paperback
1975

B.C. Truckin on Down
1976

B.C. Great Zot I'm Beautiful
1977

The Second and Third Letters of the Alphabet Revisited BC
1978

Loneliness is Rotting on a Bookrack B.C.
1978

B.C. Where the Hell is Heck?
1979

B.C. The Sun Comes Up the Sun Goes Down
1980

I, B.C.
1981

B.C. A Clam For Your Thoughts
1981

B.C. No Two Sexes Are Alike
1982

B.C.... But Theriously Folkth...
1982

B.C. Star Light, Star Bright, First...
1984

B.C. I Don't Wanta Hear About It
1984

B.C. Life Goes On
1985

B.C. A Rag and a Bone and a Yank of Hair
1985

B.C. Out One Ear and in the Other
1985

B.C. Lovers Leap
1986

B.C. Why Me?
1977

B.C. Color Me Sunday

Wouldn't it be great if there were PVC Figures of Johnny Hart's BC Characters...

This little hardback book was a greetings card book featuring Grog copyrighted as 1967, published by the American Greetings Corporation in Cleveland.

1967

Grog's Birthday Book

Andrews and McMeel Books

1988
1989
1990

Hardlake Publications

1981

Checker Books
In 2007, the year that Johnny Hart died, Checker Books issued this celebration of 50 years of BC

2007

Thomas Nelson Books
In 2009 Thomas Nelson Books published this hardback collection of religious BC comic strips

2009

Willow Creek Press
In 2012 Willow Creek Press published this all-colour paperback collection by Mason and Mick Mastroianni, the grandsons of Johnny Hart.

2012


Fawcett Books Cover Variants

1959
1959
1961
1968
1964
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1969
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1971
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1973
1985
1973
1973
1974
1984
1985
1987
1975

75c
1975

95c
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$1.25
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$1.75
1983

$1.95
This was probably the silliest title of all - at every reprint, the title had to change as the price changed! It was the same with the UK versions! I am interested in acquiring copies (or at least images) of any other title (price) variations.
1977
1986
1979
1986
1980
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1981
1983
1984
Reprints often tended to just change colour.
I believe there is a fourth colour for this book but not sure what it is.
1982
1987
1984
1984
1985
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