Gee, Rick, thanks a lot...you've now given me yet another way to waste hours and hours in front of the computer. As if Mudcat wasn't enough. I went back to the beginning -- October 1970. I think that might have been from when it ran in the Yale Daily News. (Originally B.D.'s helmet had a "Y" on it instead of a star.) I was a freshman in the fall of 1970, but they didn't run Doonesbury in the Daily Princetonian -- after all, it was done by a Yalie! I remember those early strips very well, though -- probably from the first collection, "Still a Few Bugs in the System".

Aloha,
Mark