The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974
Author(s): Charles M. Schulz
The twelfth volume of Peanuts features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty s friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie s costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volume s introduction should be served up by Schulz s longtime friend, tennis champion Billie Jean King. This volume also picks up on a few loose threads from the previous year, as the mysterious Poochie shows up in the flesh; Linus and Lucy s new kid brother Rerun makes his first appearance, is almost immediately drafted onto the baseball team (where, thanks to his tiny strike zone, he wins a game), and embarks on his first terrifying journey on the back of his mom s bike; and, in one of Peanuts oddest recurring storylines, the schoolhouse Sally used to talk to starts talking, or at least thinking, back at her! The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 also includes one of the all-time classic Peanuts sequences, in which Charlie Brown s baseball-oriented hallucinations finally manifest themselves in a baseball-shaped rash on his head. Forced to conceal the embarrassing discoloration with a bag worn over his head, Charlie Brown goes to camp as Mister Sack and discovers that, shorn of his identity, he s suddenly well liked and successful.
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What more can I say about these wonderful collections? I ve enjoyed each one immensely so far; they make me laugh and grin and even smirk a little from time to time... Top notch book. You can t have a much better time than reading these collections. Highly recommended. --Todd Klein, comic book letterer, designer, and writer
General Fields
- :
- : Fantagraphics
- : Fantagraphics
- : 0.898
- : 29 November 2013
- : 226mm X 171mm X 33mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Charles M. Schulz
- : Hardback
- : 741.5973
- : 330
- : black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, colour line drawings