Product Overview
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 Pattys friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcies costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volumes introduction should be served up by Schulzs 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 Lucys 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 moms 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 Browns 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, hes suddenly well liked and successful. 730 b/w comic strips
