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The Complete Peanuts 1959-1962 Box Set

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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 1959-1962.

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.

Unfortunately the Sunday strips are in black and white - a minor gripe. However other such comic strip collections (including Calvin and Hobbs) have the Sunday ones in color.

Recommended.

Fantagraphics, the publisher of this set of two books is to be thanked for making available once again these cartoon scripts that were first (and for many, only) seen 40+ years ago. These two books, printed and bound in very high quality and put together in a heavy cardboard slipcase contain something like 1500 peanuts cartoon strips, everything Mr. Schultz did from 1959 through 1962, four full years of Peanuts. Furthermore, these two books packaged together are cheaper than buying the individual volumes..

I don't know if you can say that Peanuts has a golden age, but if I were looking for one I'd have to consider this era. This was the time of the Great Pumpkin, one of my favorites. Charlie Brown's sister Sally has just been born. Snoopy is ... Well, let's just say Snoopy is at his finest.

This is another great collection of Peanuts comics, from one of Schulz's best periods. I see that robber baron third party sellers are trying to get ludicrous prices for this supposedly sold out set. However, there are more on the publisher's website, so if you really want it, go over to Fantagraphics. Or buy the two books singly.

The publisher website offers this box set at far less than the "new" listings and even some of "used" listings. Publisher price is only slightly higher than typical prices for these box sets. Don't pay inflated prices that some are trying to charge for this set on amazon, alibris, and even halfprice books websites.

The Complete Peanuts 1959-1962 Box Set, is such a treat, I was far from even being born at the time these cartoons were printed. But the good old Peanuts are just fabulous. I recommend this box set to anyone that would like to give them self or some they care about a treat.

Espen

The publisher of Peanuts sent me a xmas catalog called "The Fantagraphics Ultimate Catalog of Comics" and on page 55 it says "Box Set 3 (1959 - 1962) reprinting Spring 2012

This is the only box set currently out of print, but just wait a little longer and don't purchase from third party vendors who are trying to make a profit.

Love the peanuts comics!

I can't believe what I'm seeing here. $900 for brand new, or $880 for used with self-described "scuffed dust jackets and scratched slipcases"? Third-party sellers, are you KIDDING me? The slipcase (even in mint condition) is not worth $840, which is the only difference between this set and the two single volumes that still sell for around $20-$30 each brand new.

Most importantly, the publisher's website clearly states that this two-volume set is "temporarily" out of print. There will be another batch at some point, and this impossible to believe third-party greed will be blown out of the water. PLEASE don't get taken in by these guys! They should be ashamed of themselves for trying stuff like this.

As usual the greedy are trying to con people to pay inflated prices for this set when it is still being sold by the publisher Fantagraphics. They only charge $49 for the two books in the box. Go there and forget about the crooks and liars who want to scare you that this is out of print. It is NOT out of print.

This should be in everyone's library! I have always been a fan of Charles Schulz and Peanuts. I just hadn't thought of getting an anthology of his work. I'm so glad I finally did make the move. Inside the pages of the boxed set are hours of laughs, smiles and even a few tears, as Mr. Schulz captures childhood and life as no one else has ever done. Get the box set, turn off the TV and be really entertained!

The strip by this period is in full gear.Schultz is showing his genius.Lucy and Linus are more predominant in this period.Two of his finest characters.