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[edit]

Works invented by Charles M. Schulz[edit]

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 Join an Encounter Group
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Make Cookies
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Visit Plains, Georgia

Works invented by Bill Watterson[edit]

In the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip:

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

Miscellaneous from newspaper comics[edit]

101 ways dogs are ignoranter than cats in Get Fuzzy
50 Shades of Green in Ziggy
500 Ways to Smoke Pulled Pork in Blondie
A Higher Sanctimony by James Comey
Acme Impeaching Made Easy
Advanced Algebra Made Easy in Hägar the Horrible
The Art of Sophisticated Humor by Binky the Clown in Garfield
Astral Projection Made E-Z in Liō
Baby's Story in Pickles
Be The Dog by Gloria Canville in Get Fuzzy
Belligerence Adolescent Phase in Cathy
Belligerence Pre-Teen Phase in Cathy
Belligerence Toddler Phase in Cathy
big book of Flyin' Fish! in Get Fuzzy
Books for Dummies in Ziggy
Catcher in the Rye in Brevity
Cat Throw Up In My Shoes by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
Chiropractic Medicine in Rhymes With Orange
Chronicles of Naan-Nia in Brevity
Clifford the Big Red Party Member by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
Cupboards in For Better or For Worse
Curious George Pitchers for the New York Mets in Thatababy
Curious George and Planet of the Apes in Thatababy
Dad and Me by Jeremy Duncan in Zits
The Detective of the Baskervilles in Ziggy
Dodge Minivan Code in Get Fuzzy
Dog Training Tips in Rhymes With Orange
Dogmalion by Bucky Katt in Get Fuzzy
Dumbbells For Dummies in Ziggy
The English Setter Patient in Get Fuzzy
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 WorseR
Fifty Shades of Hyundai in Get Fuzzy
Flooring in For Better or For Worse
Forty Years with the Ancients: An Archaeologist's Journey into the Fabled Past by Fritz Von Vinkle in Annie
Fright!
Get Empowered! in Rhymes with Orange
Getting Rich by Thinking Rich in Blondie
Getting the Most out of your Koi Pond in Rhymes with Orange
Girl With A Datsun Tattoo in Get Fuzzy
Good Book Prequel in Curtis
Good Book Pt 2 in Curtis
The Gospel According to Dolly in The Family Circus
Gravity! Brought To You By Fig Newtons! in Get Fuzzy
hambi by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
Hamburglar: My Life Of Crime in Brevity
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
High Finance and Catnip by Reed in Get Fuzzy
Holiday Cooking in Garfield
Horror Tales
How To Go into A Bookstore And buy A Self-Help Book in Ziggy
How to Lose 3 Pounds in 60 Days in Blondie
How to Make Puppets Come to Life in Curtis
How To Overcome Low Sales Resistance in Ziggy
Human Sacrifice by Buck Katt in Get Fuzzy
Hypnosis For Dummies in Ziggy
Hypnosis How-To Manual in Hagar the Horrible
Inspire in Spite of Yourself: The Speeches of Coach Ted Forth by Ted Forth from Sally Forth
Is My Kid a Psycho? in Liō
Jedi in Pooch Café
Killing Harry Potter by Bill O'Reilly in Ziggy
Killing Zeebas for Dummies: A Step-By-Step Guide by Rat in Pearls Before Swine
The Koi of Cooking in Ziggy
Lassie In Tinseltown in Red & Rover
Lick Yourself Thin! in Get Fuzzy
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
On Being a Grandma in Rhymes with Orange
Oprah's Pick of the Year: Harry Davinci and the Lord of the 30 Minute Meals by Bucky Katt in Get Fuzzy
The Pancake Picnic in Zits
Pepperoni Pizzas: The Answer to World Peace in Blondie
PuppySnoop mystery number 16: Dear Lord, How is That Bicycle Moving? in Get Fuzzy
Really Important Math Problems in Liō
Recipes for MINDFUL EATING in Rhymes with Orange
Repairs Made E-Z in The Lockhorns
Russian Collusion
Cortex-Mex Dishes in Rhymes with Orange
Sacred Chants in Cathy
Scary Critters Pop Up in Drabble
The Search for Intelligent Life in Get Fuzzy
Secret magic Tricks Revealed. #1 in Rhymes with Orange
Sleep Spells in Rymes with Orange
Smart TVs For Dummies in Ziggy
State Facts in Get Fuzzy
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
Surgery For Dummies in Ziggy
The Tao of Self-Assertion in Liō
Teeny Stories in The Family Circus
To Serve Zebra in Pooch Cafe
Traditional Spanish Desserts in Get Fuzzy
Train Your Dog in Marmaduke
Volunteering Opportunities in Cul De Sac
What to Expect When You're Expecting Your Adult Child to Move Back In in Rhymes with Orange
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
Wunky Duck in Baby Blues
Yodeling With the Stars: Polka Edition in Blondie
You are NOT Your Own MASTER: The Art of Healing in Get Fuzzy

Comic books[edit]

DC Comics[edit]

Aliens Among Us by Doctor Franklin Selly
Altered Egos by John Law
..And my Love, She Gave me Light by Richard Madoc (from The Sandman)
The Cabaret of Doctor Caligari by Richard Madoc (from The Sandman)
Calc + (from Batman: Li'l Gotham)
The Castellan Agenda, a novel by Clark Kent (from Whom Gods Destroy)
Eagle Stones by Richard Madoc (from The Sandman)
Here Comes a Candle by Erasmus Fry (from The Sandman)
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
The Spirit who had Half of Everything by Richard Madoc (from The Sandman)
the Streets of Gotham (from Batman: Li'l Gotham)
Under the Hood by Hollis Mason (a.k.a. Nite Owl) from Watchmen by Alan Moore, autobiography
Under a Yellow Sun, a novel by Clark Kent
When Real Things Happen to Imaginary People (from The Sandman)
Zatara: Man of Magic
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).
- Alice's Journey Behind the Moon by Lewis Carroll
- Arthur in Avalon by T.H. White
- A Banquet for the Wormes by John Webster
- 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
- Beyond Chaos by Roger Zelazny
- Chanticleer's Dance by Hope Mirrlees
- The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Dark God's Darlings by Lord Dunsany
- The Death of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah
- The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis
- The Fall of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Go-Go Pogo by Walt Kelly
- The Hand of Glory by Erasimus Fry
- Ian and Ann's Book of Days
- In Times Like These by Richard Matheson
- The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift
- The Last Witch But One by Diana Wynne Jones
- Love Can Be Murder by Raymond Chandler
- The Man Who Was October by G. K. Chesterton
- The Merrie Comedie of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- Poictesme Babylon by James Branch Cabell
- Psmith and Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
- Puddleby Papers by Hugh Lofting
- The Real Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Various People
- The Return of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- The Ring and the Phoenix by E. Nesbit
- Road Trips to the Emerald City by Frank Baum
- Rooms by Neil Gaiman
- Tarzan in Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Xenon by Alan Moore
- From the Cryptogeographica (fictional maps and guidebooks section):
  - Ampersand ?
  - Camp Cusack Guide
  - Cloud Cuckoo-Land
  - Flora of Neverland
  - Frommer's Guide to Hell
  - Great Hotels on the Moon
  - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  - Hobbiton
  - Hy-Brasil By Night
  - The Land
  - Los Angeles Underground Railway Map - 1933
  - Mu A to Z
  - Narnia
  - The Night Land
  - Noumaria on 7 Livres a Day
  - One Night in Baghdad
  - Ousland City from Top to Bottom
  - Poictesme
  - Saffron Park
  - Sardathrion
  - Visiting Kadath

Marvel Comics[edit]

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 exposé 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[edit]

Blood Worth in Goosebumps: Monsters at Midnight
The Complete History of Computer Software: Volume 12 in Cerebus the Aardvark
Cooking with Monster Blood in Goosebumps: Monsters at Midnight
A Dissection on Human Dissection by Scarah Ayllllldos in Goosebumps: Monsters at Midnight
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
I Am Not Benjamin Spock, But I Know Kids! by Leonard Nimoy in Simpsons comics
The Joy of Wax in Johnny Turbo
Junior Woodchucks Guidebook in Disney comics, invented by Carl Barks
Lace and Leather II in Johnny Turbo
A Night Time Smoke by D. Oswald Heist in Saga
Pernicious Potions in Goosebumps: Monsters at Midnight
A Rose Among the Thorns by Michaelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Shot in the Face, Waving and Drowning, and I Hate It Here in Transmetropolitan
Training Spiders in Goosebumps: Monsters at Midnight
Yes, I did by Jebediah Springfield in Simpsons Comics

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