The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958 Box Set

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A gift set of the third and fourth Complete Peanuts volumes.

A boxed set of the third and fourth volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the Award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! The collection of books identical to the individual volumes ships shrinkwrapped, with Vols. 1955-1956 and 1957-1958 packed in a sturdy custom box designed especially for this set. The perfect gift item.

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956 takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities (including his hilarious first series of impressions), Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final shape, and Charlie Brown becomes…well, even more Charlie Brown-ish! Over half of the strips in this volume have never been printed since their original appearance in newspapers a half-century ago! Even the most dedicated Peanuts collector/fan is sure to find many new treasures.

In The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week "Lost Weekend" sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes "the Goat" and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired "pencil pal" affords him some comfort. Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus's blanket at a dead run). He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results. And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy. No wonder the beagle is the cover star not only of this volume but also of the beautiful collector's slipcase to this set!

Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Complete 2-book Set : Identical as the books sold separately only cheaper! April 20, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

The Complete Peanuts is definitely complete! It's a real collectors' item! Hats off to Fantagraphics Books for initiating such an ambitious project though their release schedule (releasing only two books every year - it will take twelve and a half years before the entire collection is published) leaves one frustrated.

Each book contains 2 complete years of Peanuts - the funniest comic strip of all time (IMHO). So this two-book set contains four complete years of Peanuts - all the strips that were published between 1955-1958.

Note that both books included in the boxed set are exactly the same ones that are sold separately. The books also contain full book jackets (i.e. if desired can be shelved separately). As of this review date it is cheaper to buy the two-book set than to buy them separately at Amazon and we get an added attractive slipcase with the two-book set.

Recommended.

5 out of 5 stars

Just Peanuts January 7, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Just Peanuts - unsalted, unroasted - just plain Peanuts - that's what you get in this delightful beginning of what will be over 20 volumes - my daughter has my Christmas gifts all lined up for the next 20 years! And I read each volume from start to finish within a week or so. Saturation Peanuts.

So far I've gotten 1950-52 (1st Vol. begins with the first strip on Oct. 2, 1950), 1953-54(Vol 2); 1955-56 (Vol 3) and 1957-58 (Vol 4). Each volume begins with a with a witty three page essay by some well known person: Vol 1 - Garrison Keillor, Vol 2 - Walter Cronkite, Vol 3 Matt Groening (Creator of the Simpsons, writer, producer, a cartoonist in his own right), and Vol 4 Jonathan Franzen (Fulbright Scholar, author of The Connections [winner of National Book Award] and writer for the New Yorker).

WHAT A TREASURE!

5 out of 5 stars

I Luv Peanuts! January 17, 2006
4 out of 10 found this review helpful

Great anthology. I already have the first boxed set, so this is just more fun reading.

4 out of 5 stars

Completely Awesome... Peanuts 1955-1958 March 19, 2006
4 out of 12 found this review helpful

This series is going to be a regular drain on my bank balance for the coming decade, as that is how long it is going to take Fantagraphics to finish publsihing this collection, if they stick to their published schedule.

Both books included in this boxed set are exactly the same as the separately-published volumes with full book jackets. These are the same books as the separate volumes, with an added slipcase.

Be warned: The Sunday strips are not in colour unlike the Calvin & Hobbes and the Farside collection in which even the black and white strips are printed on colour pages. This quite pisses me off...

5 out of 5 stars

Well packaged set but color needed for Sunday papers November 17, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The intros to these books are great--written by people like Matt Groening, Whoopi Goldberg, Walter Cronkite, etc. and the design is fantastic. The only complaint is what everyone else--no color on the Sunday strips. Would probably jack the price up, but I think it would be worth it. As these books are still excellent. It's fun to see the evolution of this strip.

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