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The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box Set

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If you've not seen any of the books from this series and aren't sure about getting them, here's my advice: if you're a fan of the Peanuts comis strips, these books will become treasures to you -- buy them. They are absolutely beautifully made volumes (indeed, there is a certain whimsical, understated elegance about their presentation), and the reproductions of the strips are perfect. The first 4 volumes were a Christmas surprise for me a couple of years ago from my grandmother, and the latest volumes (I believe usually 2 per year) are now the Christmas presents I look forward to most. They are a true joy, and well more than worth the money. There's no need to comment on the strips themselves: they're the wonderful cartoons you remember (plus a whole bunch you may never have seen). For me, one of the greatest delights is being able to read the strips in the order in which they were first published, so as to contextualise them both within the narratives of the strips as a group and within their historical context (since, in the corner of each strip, is the day & month when it originally appeared).

These books are amongst my prized possessions, and will be from now on. I can't recommend them highly enough, and thank the publisher for putting such love and attention into their creation. And, of course (and most of all) thanks to good ol' Charles Schulz for writing them!The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box SetThe Complete Peanuts 1959-1962 Box SetThe Complete Peanuts 1950-1954 Boxed Set

The Complete Peanuts is definitely complete! It's a real collectors' item!

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 1963-1966.

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.

(Note: I have essentially copied my review of the other peanuts sets for this one)

This collection from Fantagraphics Comics is sooo beautiful! Besides having the whole Peanuts production, the box sets are collector items themselves with brilliant forwards and an overall excellent graphic packaging.
In one of the volume a note from the Editor explains how in the original of certain strip was damaged or lost and they had to reconstruct somehow. One strip out of 700 of that volume alone and it deserved an explanatory note! This just to give you an idea of how much carefulness and passion is behind this Peanuts collection.
A must!

I love Peanuts it really got good by these years when they put in Peppermint Patty. I love when they talk to the readers like on 2/4/65 when Snoopy was gonna marry his skating girlfriend he said to the readers wish me luck, so cute. Great comics, and great books. I guess I should have put this review on the Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 but all the years are great. 1963 and 1964 are good years too.

A great package of Peanuts comics as we look to the following years. Sparky has through the 1960's changed the look of the Peanuts characters compared to the 1950's. These are the years that I like, seeing that I was born in 1965.

The actual collection, in a boxed set of 2 books,is a good idea. Collectors like myself buy the individual books in the Peanuts collection to read, and then keep the boxed sets on shelf to be admired.

The books are a wonderful size. Lovely printing, the entire set looks wonderful on the shelf and are comfortable to read. Many strip books tend to be too big and cram too much into one book. These are just right. Highly recommend the entire series.

Right now it's unavailable via Amazon (12/15) but the publishers have emailed to say (and they posted on Twitter) that it should be available again early 2010. I recommend that you wait instead of paying the crazy prices of the current resellers.

If you need it before that then I recommend buying the individual books and you can get the nice box case directly from the publisher from their website very cheap.

This is my second of these boxed sets of Peanuts. Beautiful packaging & publishing details. No color Sunday strips, of course (they appear in B&W like all the strips); but color would make the editions impractical to print anyway.

Many hours of pure enjoyment ahead: I plan to get all the sets as they come out and am learning a great deal about some favorite characters. A must-have for any true lover of Peanuts.

Come on! It's the Peanuts! Quit reading the reviews and start reading this set. Besides, if you have to read the reviews, you haven't read the Peanuts.

I got this as a Christmas present for my younger brothers, knowing that they hadn't gained a great appreciation for Peanuts from the few paperbacks we had lying around of random strips. I was a little concerned that after Calvin and Hobbes, the humor would seem subdued or even lacking entirely. I needn't have worried. The boys--10, 12, and 15--were immediately sucked into the world of the little guy--strips that have never been collected before round out the series like I've never seen. In addition, the books themselves are beautiful--truly a thing to treasure. I've never regretted my purchase for a minute.

The cartoons of Charles Schulz are always a pleasure to read and especially these collections of his earlier work.