Miss Wormwood

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Eyes: Black
Hair: White
Race: Human


Story: Miss Wormwood is Calvin and Susie Derkin's teacher, a job that can be taxing at times, as she is also has to put up with Calvin's Spaceman Spiff adventures.


Continuity: Calvin and Hobbes
Publisher(s): Universal Press Syndicate
First app.: Nov. 21, 1985
Creator(s): Bill Watterson
Country of origin: USA


Background notes: According to Bill Watterson, Miss Wormwood is named after the apprentice devil in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters."


Names around the World:

Denmark	Frøken Mortensen
France	Madame Wormwood
Germany	Fräulein Wurmholz
Spain	Señorita Carcoma
Sweden	Lärarinnan
UK/USA	Miss Wormwood

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