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Classic Peanuts Collection Slipcase Sets
The Classic Peanuts Collection
A box-set facsimile collection of three classic Peanuts comic strip books – Peanuts, More Peanuts and Good Ol’ Charlie Brown . With each book containing 128 pages, that’s over 360 pages of classic Peanuts daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips to enjoy. Including art cards featuring the cover art from the individual books.
This box-set of three of the very first Peanut books features many of your favourite characters, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Pig-Pen and Schroeder. Join them as they navigate their way through school, first crushes, the complexities of baseball, and the world of the forever unseen grown-ups and their crazy rules. Plus a rare opportunity to see what Pig-pen looks like clean!
Includes:
Peanuts
More Peanuts
Good Ol' Charlie Brown
This box-set of three of the very first Peanut books features many of your favourite characters, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Pig-Pen and Schroeder. Join them as they navigate their way through school, first crushes, the complexities of baseball, and the world of the forever unseen grown-ups and their crazy rules. Plus a rare opportunity to see what Pig-pen looks like clean!
Includes:
Peanuts
More Peanuts
Good Ol' Charlie Brown
384 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2022
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About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,039 books1,645 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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December 30, 2025
This look at Charlie Brown and the gang from their inception is actually quite wonderful. Charlie and the gang are only toddlers here, with Schroeder and Linus babies at first. Snoopy is originally the neighborhood dog. The drawings representing the characters, while easily identifiable, are more basic, and slightly less polished.
As readers move through the three volumes they’ll see the legendary strip slowly growing, until it’s much nearer what it eventually became. Changes include Linus — no longer a baby — discovering his blanket, and Charlie Brown becoming good old Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown’s passion for baseball and the team he forms which never wins is the real beginning of his endearing haplessness.
While this set is probably not what most readers are expecting, it’s still charming and adorable. Once the shock wears off because this is not quite the strip we came to know so well over the decades — it’s almost a prototype — you can simply sit back and enjoy this prequel of sorts to what everyone thinks of as Charlie Brown, rather than Peanuts.
Volume One is the facsimile of the first ever Charlie Brown collection, the best strips from 1950-1952. Violet and Shermy and Patty (not Peppermint Patty) have big roles in the strip.
Volume Two contains the best strips from 1952-1954. Readers can see the strip gradually getting better, and more charming, as the personalities of the characters take on more definition.
Volume Three covers 1955 - 1957. Here readers can see how close it’s getting to what it became for decades. Pigpen is in this one some, and the strip is becoming more polished and clearly defined.
The slipcase for this is no flimsy affair, but thick cardboard, and sturdy. The paper used for the comics is very nice, not cheap stuff, giving it a nice feel as we turn pages. In addition, three, small postcard-size art cards matching the three different covers is included. I used them as bookmarks while going through the matching volume.
This was a Christmas gift this year and a great one, very nostalgic but also surprising, since I hadn’t seen very many strips from the very early days of this iconic cartoon which brought so much joy to people across the globe. Wonderful stuff, as long as you know up-front what you’re getting. Charlie Brown was all of us, and this is highly recommended for fans.
As readers move through the three volumes they’ll see the legendary strip slowly growing, until it’s much nearer what it eventually became. Changes include Linus — no longer a baby — discovering his blanket, and Charlie Brown becoming good old Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown’s passion for baseball and the team he forms which never wins is the real beginning of his endearing haplessness.
While this set is probably not what most readers are expecting, it’s still charming and adorable. Once the shock wears off because this is not quite the strip we came to know so well over the decades — it’s almost a prototype — you can simply sit back and enjoy this prequel of sorts to what everyone thinks of as Charlie Brown, rather than Peanuts.
Volume One is the facsimile of the first ever Charlie Brown collection, the best strips from 1950-1952. Violet and Shermy and Patty (not Peppermint Patty) have big roles in the strip.
Volume Two contains the best strips from 1952-1954. Readers can see the strip gradually getting better, and more charming, as the personalities of the characters take on more definition.
Volume Three covers 1955 - 1957. Here readers can see how close it’s getting to what it became for decades. Pigpen is in this one some, and the strip is becoming more polished and clearly defined.
The slipcase for this is no flimsy affair, but thick cardboard, and sturdy. The paper used for the comics is very nice, not cheap stuff, giving it a nice feel as we turn pages. In addition, three, small postcard-size art cards matching the three different covers is included. I used them as bookmarks while going through the matching volume.
This was a Christmas gift this year and a great one, very nostalgic but also surprising, since I hadn’t seen very many strips from the very early days of this iconic cartoon which brought so much joy to people across the globe. Wonderful stuff, as long as you know up-front what you’re getting. Charlie Brown was all of us, and this is highly recommended for fans.
January 17, 2023
This retro collection of the first three Peanuts reprint books from the 1950s comes with a set of collector cards and housed in a slipcase. It’s Peanuts at its earliest, and you can see Charles M. Schulz’s cartooning quickly evolve through these pages. Included are Peanuts, More Peanuts, and Good Ol’ Charlie Brown, in 6x9” reprints that evoke the original printings from over 70 years ago. This set is a lot of fun as you see not only Schulz’s evolving style, but the evolution of his characters, too--Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Patty, Violet, and even Baby Schroeder (Lucy and Linus make their first appearances in the second volume, More Peanuts). Great strips, lovingly presented in their original book format.
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