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Snoopy Stars / Snoopy Features #1
Snoopy Features as The Flying Ace
This collection of comics starring Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts gang highlights Snoopy's adventures in the sky.
Spend time with Charlie Brown and friends in this funny and charming collection of comic strips culled from Charles M. Schulz's work. As Snoopy zooms through the air and fights off the infamous Red Baron, nothing can stop this flying ace and his Sopwith Camel fighter plane--except maybe dinner.
Award-winning author Charles M. Schulz's classic Peanuts comics continue to be discovered and cherished by new generations of fans around the world.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as the Flying Ace, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Flying Ace.
Spend time with Charlie Brown and friends in this funny and charming collection of comic strips culled from Charles M. Schulz's work. As Snoopy zooms through the air and fights off the infamous Red Baron, nothing can stop this flying ace and his Sopwith Camel fighter plane--except maybe dinner.
Award-winning author Charles M. Schulz's classic Peanuts comics continue to be discovered and cherished by new generations of fans around the world.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as the Flying Ace, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Flying Ace.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Charles M. Schulz
3,022 books1,624 followersCharles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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October 10, 2022
More Fun With Snoopy and Friends
Snoopy is the Flying Ace who does battle with the Red Baron.
Laugh-out-loud fun is coming your way with Snoopy and the Peanuts.
Enjoy the day with some funny moments.
Five fantastic stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
Snoopy is the Flying Ace who does battle with the Red Baron.
Laugh-out-loud fun is coming your way with Snoopy and the Peanuts.
Enjoy the day with some funny moments.
Five fantastic stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
January 12, 2018
Not only do we get Snoopy the WW I flying ace and his Sopwith Camel, there are also strips with Snoopy as a chopper pilot and as a commercial airline pilot.
April 22, 2025
te quiero Snoopy
November 15, 2025
I love Snoopy! This contained some Peanuts strips I have never seen or read before. These strips had most of the Peanuts gang in them. Not all, but most, of them were The Flying Ace behind enemy lines.
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October 1, 2017
I like the stories in this collection much better. They were cute and funny and barely contained any with Lucy 😁
July 15, 2018
Another great collection of comics
May 14, 2022
Mi padre leía pocos tebeos, pero de los peanuts tenía por lo menos quince libros en sus estanterías. En el proceso natural de absorción y descarte de las estanterías de mi padre descubrí a Charlie Brown, el antihéroe, y a Snoopy y a Woodstock, héroes peculiares, y a Linus y su manta, y a Schroeder y su piano, y a Lucy, enamorada de Schroeder, y a Patty y a Sally, y a todos los demás. De trazo simple, con líneas argumentales que oscilaban entre una y doscientas tiras, Charles Schulz creó durante 50 años (solo Ibáñez ha sido más prolífico durante más tiempo) un pequeño universo al que he vuelto alguna vez, para comprobar con gusto que, si bien ya no me llama como antes, no ha envejecido mal.
Hay tantas tiras (más de 18.000 en 50 años, se dice pronto) que, como dicen de los Simpson, toda cosa que pase ha salido ya probablemente en una tira de Charlie Brown. Las leí sobre todo entre mis 10 y mis 15 años, pero cuando me he cruzado con alguna en años posteriores ha seguido aguantando el tipo y, por supuesto, se aprecian má mensajes destinados al adulto. La maravilla de las cosas bien hechas, que apelan a todos los públicos. Altamente recomendable.
Hay tantas tiras (más de 18.000 en 50 años, se dice pronto) que, como dicen de los Simpson, toda cosa que pase ha salido ya probablemente en una tira de Charlie Brown. Las leí sobre todo entre mis 10 y mis 15 años, pero cuando me he cruzado con alguna en años posteriores ha seguido aguantando el tipo y, por supuesto, se aprecian má mensajes destinados al adulto. La maravilla de las cosas bien hechas, que apelan a todos los públicos. Altamente recomendable.
December 28, 2019
Printed in b&w and rather small, this Snoopy paperback contains rather a lot of strips, many of which follow on from one another. They are all nicely drawn, simple and rather agreeable, but I found them a bit too facile and lacking in the laughs department. Not the beagle's finest hour. 2.5/5
September 2, 2019
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August 1, 2020“That’s my brother’s dog... he’s weird.”
November 26, 2020
I love the Peanuts gang. Snoopy is my favourite.
December 31, 2021
Ah yes my annual comic book to meet my reading goal. A+
January 1, 2024
it’s snoopy. of course i’m going to rate it 5 stars!!
June 18, 2025
I adore snoopy, and I have really missed him, and didn’t even know it, until I read a couple of these comic books. And now, I just want to keep reading them. It makes for a really sweet time…
June 19, 2022
You've got to love the RED BARON!!
And this is a whole book dedicated to the adventures of the ww2 flying ace and his sopwith camel, so WHAT'S not to LOVE???!!!
And this is a whole book dedicated to the adventures of the ww2 flying ace and his sopwith camel, so WHAT'S not to LOVE???!!!
January 11, 2018
This comic collection is mostly about Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel. The first series of a cartoons are about Peppermint Patty renting Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel to enter it into the Powder Puff Derby Race. Another series we see Snoopy is a helicopter out to rescue Linus’ blanket from the evil cat next door. And in another Linus is stuck on the roof of a barn and helicopter pilot Woodstock is hired to rescue him. And finally, a whole slew of World War I flying ace behind enemy lines talking to pretty French ladies and drinking root beer.
March 26, 2014
saya baca yang cetakan Budget Books, dengan judul "Snoopy Stars as The Flying Ace" -- sekarang saya paham kenapa Snoopy sering sekali digambarkan menggunakan google dan scarf..
Snoopy went 'Walter Mitty'.. hahaha :DDD
Snoopy went 'Walter Mitty'.. hahaha :DDD
October 8, 2015
You ever go wrong with Charlie Brown!!!
Love it! You can't ever go wrong reading charli Brown. Always a classic!! From generation to the next it never gets tiring!!
Love it! You can't ever go wrong reading charli Brown. Always a classic!! From generation to the next it never gets tiring!!
November 2, 2015
This book brings classic black and white Peanuts comics rearranged to fit kindle screens. Some of the storylines are a little dated, but enjoyable nonetheless.
March 1, 2017
My daughter and I loved it.
Loved it. Very funny. A great read for me and my daughter who is a big fan of the peanuts gang.
Loved it. Very funny. A great read for me and my daughter who is a big fan of the peanuts gang.
August 22, 2016
It was on sale, and I was in the mood.
April 7, 2018
Better than I remembered!
I miss you Charles M. Schulz! Thanks to these series of short books. Better than I remember. Still laughing fan!
I miss you Charles M. Schulz! Thanks to these series of short books. Better than I remember. Still laughing fan!
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