On sale date: September 8, 2009
Tennis, anyone? Billie Jean King serves up an introduction... and we celebrate Woodstock!
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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The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974: Vol. 12 Hardcover Edition is part of the The Complete Peanuts Hardcover series.
Praise
"It's impossible to think of another popular art form that reaches across generations the way the daily comic strip does…at the pinnacle of that long tradition, there was Charles Schulz." — Seattle Times
"Charles M. Schulz is my favorite cartoonist, so I was excited to see that the twelfth volume in the series has an introduction by the legendary Billie Jean King... This is a important series of books which I give an 'A Plus' and I think it would be the ultimate part of a Peanuts fan's collection!" — The Catgirl Critics
"Most comic strips today, especially those that are humor strips, often avoid topical subjects. Schulz embraced the topics of the era. They may date the strip, but it never leaves them outdated. ... Schulz was also not afraid to carry on-going storylines for several days or in some cases, even a couple of weeks. ... [The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974] also features all the favorite subjects like Linus' annual wait for the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown's trip to Summer camp, and Sally's letters to Santa Claus. This is why Peanuts is the greatest strip ever!" — Tim Janson - Newsarama
"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
"Really strong stuff here, including the "Charlie Brown wears a sack on his head to summer camp" sequence, surely the "Poison River" of Peanuts." — Patrick Markfort, - Articulate Nerd
Specs
- Pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Black and white
- Dimensions
- 8.6" × 6.8"
- ISBN-13
- 9781606992869