I Thought You Had the Compass, Beetle Bailey (Beetle Bailey, I Thought You Had the Compass!)

In this single 1982 issue from Ace Books, the long-running Beetle Bailey newspaper strip is collected under a new title, I Thought You Had the Compass, Beetle Bailey. The volume gathers classic gags from the 1950s through the 1980s, centering on the hapless Private Bailey’s misadventures at Camp Swampy under the exasperated eye of Sergeant Snorkel. While the series itself is a perennial favorite of syndicated humor, this specific collection offers a snapshot of Mort Walker’s enduring comic legacy in a compact, paperback format.