This book gathers 730 daily and Sunday comic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available in any in-print Peanuts collection, and over 100 of which have never been reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 years ago.
No wonder the beagle is the cover star of this volume..
And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy.
He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results.
He\'s at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus\'s blanket at a dead run).
But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy.
Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder.
Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes the Goat and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired pencil pal affords him some comfort.
Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy\'s bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week Lost Weekend sequence of blanketlessness.
As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age.
This book gathers 730 daily and Sunday comic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available in any in-print Peanuts collection, and over 100 of which have never been reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 years ago
