The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 | 
| Author: Charles M. Schulz
Creator: Seth
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 344
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 1560978260
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781560978268
ASIN: 1560978260
Publication Date: April 23, 2008
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Product Description
The newest collection of the classic strip.
As we rush toward the end of Peanuts' second full decade, Snoopy finds himself almost completely engrossed in his persona as the World War I Flying Ace—to the point where he goes to camp with Charlie Brown and maintains his persona throughout the entire two-week period (much to Peppermint Patty's bafflement).
Still, Snoopy looms large, so this volume (a particularly Snoopy-heavy one) sees him arm-wrestling Lucy as the "Masked Marvel" and then taking off for Petaluma for the national arm-wrestling championship; impersonating a vulture and a "Cheshire Beagle"; enjoying golf and hockey; attempting a jaunt to France for an ice-skating championship; running for office on the "Paw" ticket; being traded to Peppermint Patty's baseball team, then un-traded and installed as team manager by a guilt-ridden Charlie Brown; as well as dealing with the return of his original owner, Lila. If you're surprised by that last one, imagine how Charlie Brown feels...
Lila makes only a brief appearance (as does Jose Peterson, a short-lived—and short—star member of Charlie Brown's baseball team), but this volume sees the appearance of what would be Schulz's most controversial major character: Franklin. (Yes, in 1968 the introduction of a Black character caused a stir.)
Peppermint Patty, working toward her ascendancy as one of the major Peanuts players in the 1970s and 1980s, also has several major turns, including a storyline in which she's the tent monitor for three little girls (who call her "Sir"—a joke Schulz would pick up later with Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie).
Stories involving other characters include a sequence in which Linus's flippant comment to his Gramma that he'll kick his blanket habit when she kicks her smoking habit backfires; Lucy bullies Linus, pesters Schroeder, and organizes a "crab-in"; plus Charlie Brown copes with Valentine's Day depression, the Little Red-Haired Girl, the increasingly malevolent kite-eating tree, and baseball losses. In other words: Vintage Peanuts!
NOTE: Good grief! Through a printer's error one strip (May 3, 1967) from this period is missing and one (May 1, 1967) is duplicated in this edition. All copies of this book contain this mistake; there are no "good" ones available, sorry. The missing strip will be printed in the next volume (1969-1970) and is available here: http://tinyurl.com/6bwf7r
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"You've Got Yourself a Used Dog, Charlie Brown." August 3, 2008
Donald Hargraves (Munster, Indiana United States)
While it's Violet who's given the front cover for this book (more about the strip this image came from later...), it's Snoopy and Peppermint Patty who come into their own in this book.
Snoopy's stint as the WWI Flying Ace is not nearly as strong as before, but it begins to to interact with the other characters (other than Charlie Brown, who HAS to interact with Snoopy on a regular basis) and affect their actions, as does some other of Snoopy's alternate characters. Snoopy is also given a back story involving a former owner who was unable to keep him (a plot which was expanded into its own movie).
Peppermint Patty, having developed from a blank slate looking for something to believe in to a character strong enough to solo in late 1966, is now further expanding into what would become her role as Charlie Brown's female, power-filled alter-ego. With Jose Peterson (.850 in North Dakota?), Roy and Franklin (a Summer of '68 introduction) in tow and a possible peak at Marcie, Peppermint Patty is now the leader of her own gang - a Female Charlie Brown, only a competent leader of a group chosen for their strengths and winning ways (as compared to Charlie Brown, whose team is pretty much a collections of locals who don't really like him too much and are chosen more-or-less because of habit and closeness). Peppermint Patty's weaknesses would round out her character in the future, but here it's her strengths that are propelling her.
Given the growth in Snoopy and Peppermint Patty, the other characters work more in support. Charlie Brown already has become more a handmaiden to Peppermint Patty's attempts to improve her team (at first CB's team, then her own) and Snoopy's escapades more and more involve and affect the people around them. The Red-Haired girl again affects CB in bad ways, this time even going so far as to force CB to live in the dark of his bedroom for a whole week. And Freida still appears, still doggedly trying to turn Snoopy into the hunting dog she's always dreamed of owning.
And finally, the image on the front cover of this book comes from the "missing strip" in the book: Violet solo, shooting forth a cutdown only for us to learn of its weakness (May 3, 1967). Maybe the compiler thought it a bit odd that Violet, once able (with or without the original Patty) to rip into CB with a force powerful enough to destroy living men (never mind struggling boys with no self-esteem) weakened to a mere "nyaah." Anyway, it was replaced with the strip from two days before in the book. You can find a copy online and consider the irony of an image used in the front of a book that it's been banished from (unintentionally, but banished nevertheless).
Buy this book. Buy the books before this one as well, if you haven't done that yet.
PEANUTS -- Keep Getting Better July 7, 2008
Donald R. Fraser (Napa Valley, CA)
The Complete Peanuts l967-68 takes me back to the founding of my Peanuts related company, Aviva Enterprises, with Elliot Steinberg in l968. Every Peanuts 'fan' -- should own this entire collection. It is a wonderful gift to leave for future generation in your own families.
 Annoying Mistake by Publisher June 13, 2008
A. Smith
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My excitment at getting this the latest in the wonderful "Peanuts" reprint series, was tempered when an accidental double printing of the May 1st,1967 strip was brought to my attention by a previous reviewer.With the omission of the May 3rd,1967 strip it really isnt "The Complete" Peanuts any more is it? Bad job all around by Fantagraphics.I will not feel complete until the missing strip is finally printed.Thus far the only black mark on a truly wonderful series.Incidentally, has any one else ordered the first volume of "The Complete Little Orphan Annie"? I ordered it back on February 23 because of Amazon's published date of February 25th. It is is now mid-June and they have just changed the date for the third time.I have called Amazon and gotten no answer.Does anyone have any idea when the First volume of Little Orphan Annie is being published???
Peanuts rule! June 11, 2008
Laila Aslesen (Norway)
I love Peanuts, but there is no doubt it deteriorated in the last 10-15 years it was made, one was bound to run out of original ideas sooner or later. However, this book is from what was the heydays of the series, and is great reading.
Keep 'Em Coming May 12, 2008
Timothy Haugh (New York, NY United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's getting harder and harder to come up with new things to say that will convey how much I enjoy reading these old Peanuts strips. This comes from a period where I am less familiar with the strips themselves, so there are some surprises for me.
In this volume we find the strips that will be the inspiration for the animated special, Snoopy Come Home, in which we find out Snoopy has an owner before Charlie Brown who is ill and in the hospital. This is the era where Franklin makes his first appearance, giving Charlie Brown one of his rare emotional boosts. There is also plenty of Snoopy as the WWI flying ace and numerous baseball games.
All in all, as always, this volume is a great collection of wonderful Peanuts comic strips. Charles Schulz rarely disappoints.
(Prospective buyers of this volume should be aware that the first edition has an error: the May 1, 1967 strip is printed twice, leaving the May 3, 1967 strip missing. Later editions of this volume are supposed to correct the error and the missing strip will also be printed in the 1969-1970 volume.)
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