by Dik Browne

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Australia

Hagar the Horrible books were produced in several formats in Australia and New Zealand, not the least of which was the popular large soft-cover magazine size books. The publishers that produced these were Beaumont (from 1976 to 1984) and Capricorn (from 1985 to 1986). Budget Books also produced standard size paperbacks and some longer landscape books.

Many thanks to David Godfrey from New Zealand for image contribution

= In My Collection / = Not in My Collection

64-Page Books...

1976

Hagar the Horrible
1977

Hagar the Horrible Number Two
1978

Hagar the Horrible No 3
1979

Hagar the Horrible Number 4
1980

Another Day, Another Dragon
1981

All Hail to hagar the Horrible
1981

The Nine Lives of Lucky Eddie
1982

The Henpecked Hero
1983

Let's Hear It For hagar the Horrible!
1984

The One and Only Hagar the Horrible!
1985

Hold It, Hagar!
1985

Hurrah For Helga!

192-Page Books

No 1 (1977)

Giant Size No 1
No 2 (1978)

Giant Size No 2
No 3 (1979)

Giant Size No 3
No 4 (1981)

The Big Book of Hagar the Horrible
No 5 (1982)

Giant Size No 5
No 6 (1983)

Bumper Book of Hagar the Horrible
No 7 (1985)

Giant Size No 7

Budget Books

No 1 (1986)

The Viking's Guide to...
No 2 (1986)

The World According to...
No 3 (1986)

The Life and Crimes of...
No 4 (1986)

Another Round With...
No 5 (1986)

Domestic Bliss With...
No 6 (1986)

At Home With...
No 7 (1987)

Feast of Laughs
No 8 (1987)

Pet Hates
No 9 (1987)

In Hot Pursuit
No 10 (1987)

All in a Day's Work
No 11 (1987)

Never Say Die
No 12 (1987)

Dressed to Kill

The following books (No 1 and No 2 of the Budget Books landscape series) have recently been the topic of much discussion. It appears that there was a printing mixup during 1986/1987 so that both books ended up with the same comic strips in them (from No 2 in fact). With many thanks to James McCutcheon for bringing it to my attention, and to Mark Bishop from down under for this information.

You need to have to ensure you have the correct copies...(I NEED THE CORRECT COPY OF NUMBER 1)

The CORRECT 1st printing (and some reprints) of "The Best of Hagar The Horrible No.1" has the ISBN 086801298X on the Copyright page and on the Bar code on the back cover. It has the introduction strip ending with "...devoted husband has returned".

The INCORRECT printing of "No.1" (perhaps only the 1986, 1987 reprint) has the "No.1" cover but it's contents is entirely "Even More of the Best of Hagar The Horrible No.2"! It has the ISBN 0868013358 on the Copyright page but (of course) the Bar code on the back cover is from "No.1". The first introduction strip ending with "...with a cherry in mine".

The CORRECT first printing of "Even More of the Best of Hagar The Horrible No.2" has the ISBN 0868013358 on the Copyright page and the back cover. The first introduction strip ending with "...with a cherry in mine".

The INCORRECT printing of "No.2" (probably only the 1986, 1987 reprint) has the ISBN 086801298X on the Copyright page and the ISBN 0868013358 on the back cover.

No 1

The Best of Hagar the Horrible
No 2

Even More of the Best of Hagar the Horrible
No 3

A Toast to Hagar the Horrible
No 4

The Hazards of Hagar the Horrible
No 5

Grow Up! Hagar the Horrible

Thanks to James McCutcheon for this first image
1986

The Best of Hagar the Horrible
1987

Greetings From Hagar the Horrible Weekender

Horwitz Grahame Books

1986

Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook

Yaffa Publishing
Anyone know anything about this book and if there were any others by Yaffa Publishing ?
Thanks to Mark Bishop for bringing it to my attention.

Circa 1981

Hagar Conquers the World