List of fictional books from periodicals

Fictional books are often used in periodical publications to increase the satirical tone of a work. This is a list of fictional books appearing in newspaper comics and comic book issues.

Newspaper comics

Works invented by Charles M. Schulz

In the Peanuts comic strip:
Books by Miss Helen Sweetstory

• The Six Bunny-Wunnies and the Female Veterinarian
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Pony Cart
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Water Bed
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their XK-E
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies Go to Long Beach
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies Make Cookies
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies Join an Encounter Group
• The Six Bunny-Wunnies Visit Plains, Georgia

Works invented by Bill Watterson

In the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip:

• Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie by Mabel Syrup (since actually written by Mabel S. Barr)
• Commander Coriander Salamander and 'Er Singlehander Bellylander, also by Mabel Syrup
• Captain Napalm, an uncredited comic book

Miscellaneous from Newspaper comics

• 50 Shades of Green in Ziggy
• Advanced Algebra Made Easy in Hägar the Horrible
• Astral Projection Made E-Z in Liō
• Belligerence Adolescent Phase in Cathy
• Belligerence Pre-Teen Phase in Cathy
• Belligerence Toddler Phase in Cathy
• big book of Flyin' Fish! in Get Fuzzy
• Cat Throw Up In My Shoes by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Clifford the Big Red Party Member by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Dad and Me by Jeremy Duncan in Zits
• The Detective of the Baskervilles in Ziggy
• Dodge Minivan Code in Get Fuzzy
• Dogmalion by Bucky Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Dog Training Tips in Rhymes With Orange
• Every POSSIBLE THOUGHT I HAVE ABOUT DRIVING Whether IT APPLIES TO YOU OR NOT in Zits
• Experience by Barack Obama
• Facial Exercises in For Better or For Worse
• Fifty Shades of Hyundai in Get Fuzzy
• Forty Years with the Ancients: An Archaeologist's Journey into the Fabled Past by Fritz Von Vinkle in Annie
• Get Empowered! in Rhymes with Orange
• Girl With A Datsun Tattoo in Get Fuzzy
• Gravity! Brought To You By Fig Newtons! in Get Fuzzy
• Harry Pyotr and the Chamber of State Secrets by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Harry Pyotr and the Prisoner of Kazakhstan by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• hambi by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Hamburglar: My Life Of Crime in Brevity
• High Finance and Catnip by Reed in Get Fuzzy
• Holiday Cooking in Garfield
• How To Overcome Low Sales Resistance in Ziggy
• Human Sacrifice by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Hypnosis For Dummies in Ziggy
• Is My Kid a Psycho? in Liō
• Killing Harry Potter by Bill O'Reilly in Ziggy
• Killing Zeebas for Dummies: A Step-By-Step Guide by Rat in Pearls Before Swine
• Lassie In Tinseltown in Red & Rover
• Master the Master in Get Fuzzy
• MEN who shrank their PROSTATES and THE WOMEN who love them
• Mellow: How to Get by Dr. Dan Asher in Doonesbury
• Monster to Monsieur: Humanizing the Modern Monster by Satchel Pooch in Get Fuzzy
• My Life Lying Down by Beetle Bailey
• Naked Came I (originally titled A Penguin's Story) by Opus the Penguin
• Narcissism: a Cure? by Luke Trent
• Oprah's Pick of the Year: Harry Davinci and the Lord of the 30 Minute Meals by Bucky Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Really Important Math Problems in Liō
• Recipes for MINDFUL EATING in Rhymes with Orange
• Sacred Chants in Cathy
• Secret magic Tricks Revealed. #1 in Rhymes with Orange
• Surgery For Dummies in Ziggy
• Stone Season in For Better or For Worse
• Stories for Little Folks in The Family Circus
• Story of Me! by Satchel Pooch in Get Fuzzy
• The Search for Intelligent Life in Get Fuzzy
• The Tao of Self-Assertion in Liō
• Traditional Spanish Desserts in Get Fuzzy
• Volunteering Opportunities in Cul De Sac
• What To Forget When You're Forgetting in Rhymes with Orange
• Where's Ivano by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Who Hid My Butter in Sally Forth
• Winnie the Putin by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
• Winning through Mellow by Dr. Dan Asher in Doonesbury
• You are NOT Your Own MASTER: The Art of Healing in Get Fuzzy

Comic books

DC Comics

• Aliens Among Us by Doctor Franklin Selly
• Altered Egos by John Law
• The Castellan Agenda, a novel by Clark Kent (from Whom Gods Destroy)
• The Heterodyne Boys Big Book of Fun by The Heterodyne Boys, featured in Phil Foglio's Stanley and His Monster
• Hex Appeal: The Modern Girl's Guide to Magic by Zatanna Zatara
• The Janus Contract, a novel by Clark Kent
• Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography
• My Mother's Daughter by Dinah Laurel Lance
• Mystic Abominations by Jaçek
• Reflections: A Collection of Essays and Speeches by Princess Diana of Themiscyra
• Under a Yellow Sun, a novel by Clark Kent
• Under the Hood by Hollis Mason (a.k.a. Nite Owl) from Watchmen by Alan Moore, autobiography
• Zatara: Man of Magic
• ..And my Love, She Gave me Light by Richard Madoc (From The Sandman)
• The Cabaret of Doctor Caligari by Richard Madoc (From The Sandman)
• Eagle Stones by Richard Madoc (From The Sandman)
• Here Comes a Candle by Erasmus Fry (From The Sandman)
• The Spirit who had Half of Everything by Richard Madoc (From The Sandman)
• When Real Things Happen to Imaginary People (From The Sandman)
• Seen in The Library of Dream in The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. These are all, or nearly all, real authors, but the titles given never existed (though in most cases they are closely related to or play on real-world titles by these authors).
  • In Times Like These by Richard Matheson
  • Beyond Chaos by Roger Zelazny
  • The Last Witch But One by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Fall of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  • The Ring and the Phoenix by E. Nesbit
  • Road Trips to the Emerald City by Frank Baum
  • Arthur in Avalon by T.H. White
  • Go-Go Pogo by Walt Kelly
  • Alice's Journey Behind the Moon by Lewis Carroll
  • The Lost Road by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Man Who Was October by G. K. Chesterton
  • Poictesme Babylon by James Branch Cabell
  • The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Return of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
  • The Hand of Glory by Erasimus Fry
  • The Dark God's Darlings by Lord Dunsany
  • Love Can Be Murder by Raymond Chandler
  • Puddleby Papers by Hugh Lofting
  • Psmith and Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Death of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah
  • The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift
  • The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis
  • The Merrie Comedie of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  • Ian and Ann's Book of Days
  • The Bestselling Romantic Spy Thriller I Used To Think About On The Bus That Would Sell A Billion Copies And Mean I'd Never Have to Work Again by Anyone
  • The Real Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Various People.
  • Chanticleer's Dance by Hope Mirrlees
  • Tarzan in Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Xenon by Alan Moore
  • Rooms by Neil Gaiman
  • A Banquet for the Wormes by John Webster
  • From the Cryptogeographica (fictional maps and guidebooks section):
    • Ousland City from Top to Bottom
    • Poictesme
    • Los Angeles Underground Railway Map - 1933
    • Visiting Kadath
    • Sardathrion
    • Saffron Park
    • Hobbiton
    • The Night Land
    • One Night in Baghdad
    • The Land
    • Flora of Neverland
    • Frommer's Guide to Hell
    • Narnia
    • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Great Hotels on the Moon
    • Camp Cusack Guide
    • Ampersand ?
    • Mu A to Z
    • Cloud Cuckoo-Land
    • Noumaria on 7 Livres a Day
    • Hy-Brasil By Night

Marvel Comics

• Born Normal, a memoir by Jean-Paul Beaubier on his life as Northstar
• Gidget Goes to Hell a memoir by Patsy Walker (Hellcat) of her death and resurrection
• How Peter Parker Ruined My Life, a biography by Debra Whitman
• Legacy of Evil, by Ben Urich - a book exposing Norman Osborn and his son Harry as having taken up the mantle of the Green Goblin. Discontinued by Osborn when he took over the Daily Bugle.
• Marvels, book of superhero photographs by Phil Sheldon
• Power for the Preying, an expose about paranormal kids and the various forces attempting to exploit them, in the New Universe's Psi-Force
• Shadows, The Dark Side of the Marvels, a book on supervillains by Dr. Dennis Schoolcroft
• Sidekick, a memoir by Rick Jones
• The Third Species, by John Sublime
• The Vampire Conspiracy, by Harold H. Harold - Tomb of Dracula
• Webs, book of Spider-Man photographs by Peter Parker

Miscellaneous from comics

• A Night Time Smoke by D. Oswald Heist in Saga
• A Rose Among the Thorns by Michaelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Explaining the Unknown in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Fountain by Izzi Creo (final chapter by Thomas Creo) in The Fountain
• Good Boys and Bad Girls in Johnny Turbo
• Junior Woodchucks Guidebook in Disney comics, invented by Carl Barks
• Lace and Leather II in Johnny Turbo
• The Joy of Wax in Johnny Turbo
• "Shot in the Face," "Waving and Drowning," and "I Hate It Here" in Transmetropolitan

See also

• Lists of books
• List of fictional books
• List of fictional books from non-print media
• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional diaries
• Fictional guidebooks
• List of fictional television shows
• Musaeum Clausum

References