The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 (v. 10) (Hardcover)

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In these strips, Caniff’s heady brew of adventure, comedy, and romance approaches perfection. Titular protagonist Terry Lee is growing out of adolescence, and he’s given a love interest in the Southern belle April Kane. While the focus remains on Terry and soldier of fortune Pat Ryan, Caniff keeps things fresh by introducing new supporting characters, notably, dashing pilot Duke Hennick and the ill-fated Raven Sherman. Soon real-life events would transform Terry from an exotic high-adventure tale into an equally thrilling wartime saga. Many aficionados feel that the just-prewar period represents the newspaper adventure strip at its peak. --Gordon Flagg

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In Charles Schulz's The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970, Woodstock makes his first appearance, Peppermint Patty runs afoul of her school's dress code, Lucy declares herself a "New Feminist," and Snoopy returns to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm on a speaking engagement. Speaking of Snoopy, this volume falls under the sign of the Great Beagle, as three separate storylines focus on the mysterious sovereign of Beagledom. Lucy throws Schroeder's piano into the maw of the kite-eating tree, with gruesome results... Miss Othmar goes on strike and Linus gets involved... Charlie Brown's baseball team has an actual (brief) winning streak... Snoopy's quest to compete in the Oakland ice skating competition is thwarted by his inability to find a partner... Charlie Brown goes to a banquet to meet his hapless baseball hero Joe Shlabotnik... Snoopy is left in the Van Pelt family's care as the Browns vacation... and the Little Red-Haired Girl moves away.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 244 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (October 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560978279
• ISBN-13: 978-1560978275
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,395 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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• This is item 10 in The Complete Peanuts Series.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Curse this stupid war! Curse you, too, Red Baron!", October 8, 2008

By	take403 - See all my reviews

This new edition will prove to be another classic 2 year period. Much of this volume wound up in You've Had It, Charlie Brown, You're Out Of Sight, Charlie Brown and You've Come A Long Way, Charlie Brown. Snoopy will continue his charade as the World War I Flying Ace (as pictured on the cover). Charlie Brown's beloved little red haired girl moves away (he still has to feed his dog amidst a broken heart and Linus gives him a little boot for not getting to know her when he had the chance!). Lucy ponders the meaning of life. Snoopy is the 1st dog to go to the moon and is left at the Van Pelts while Charlie and Sally Brown are on vacation. Charlie Brown has the chance to meet Joe Shlabotnik at a baseball banquet dinner and brings Linus and Snoopy (Snoopy flirts with Peggy Fleming). Linus reads the entire geneology of Jesus at a Christmas paegant (Lucy sarcastically suggests he read the entire book of Genesis while he's at it). Peppermint Patty tries selling a pumpkin after Halloween at no avail, so she tries to make a pie. Frieda pressures Snoopy to go rabbit chasing with the threat of reporting him to the head beagle if he doesn't comply. She's also Lucy's competition in hanging around Schroeder's piano (and of course, the musical maestro isn't crazy about either one of them, so he has 2 heads to remove from his piano instead of one!). I guess he hadn't forgotten the kite-eating tree incident! Peppermint Patty is forced to hang up her sandals at school because of the new dress code (Snoopy tries kissing away the tears and Franklin concludes "Any rule that would make a girl cry would have to be a bad rule!"). However, Peppermint Patty finds a worthy escort with Snoopy at a school dance and when someone insults the kid with the big nose, Peppermint Patty clobbers the guy! Sally complains about having to write a report on George Washington and hopes something about him pops up on television (this was years before the public heard about the internet). She also writes a report on Abraham Lincoln ("He was the 16th king and married Lot's wife"- now don't ask me where she did her research!). Snoopy gets elected Head Beagle the year after his threat from Frieda (his office doesn't last long) and nominated Rookie of the Year (and has lots of autographs to sign from admiring bird fans). In 1970, one bird makes his formal debut after being christened "Woodstock" (named, of course, after the rock festival held one year before). Both he and Snoopy are afraid to go to sleep after Peppermint Patty tells them vampire stories. So get this volume soon or Frieda might report you to the head beagle!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, But A Little Off The Peak Of Peanuts, October 24, 2008

By	John D. Cofield - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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I enjoyed this volume of The Complete Peanuts almost as much as I have the other volumes in this series. I knew that this particular volume would be somewhat bittersweet, as it was during 1969 and 1970 that I originally started to notice the strip was beginning to lose some of the sharpness of its glory years in the early to mid 1960s. In those years the Peanuts kids were diminutive philosophers creating the motifs that still resonate down the years as what Peanuts is all about: the security blanket, the Red Baron, the little red-haired girl, the toy piano, and so on.

All of these motifs are still present in the 1969-1970 volume, but they are beginning to be squeezed out by Schulz's increasing fascination with Snoopy's fantasy life and his new bird friend Woodstock. Now I love Snoopy and I find Woodstock appealing, don't get me wrong, but too many of the strips came to focus almost exclusively on them, to the detriment of some of the kid characters. Pig Pen has entirely disappeared, and Shermy, Patty, Frieda, and Violet only stroll by now and again. Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and Peppermint Patty are now the only major characters besides Snoopy and Woodstock.

Everything changes, and Peanuts evolved almost continuously from its start in 1950. The difference I see here is that the changes apparent in this volume signal a move away from the strip's high point. Others will see this differently, of course, but for me personally this volume seems to start Peanuts' decline.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't go trying to hide in a cave or something!, March 24, 2009

By	Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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Fantagraphics Books has ambitious plans to reprint the entire run of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. This volume reprints the strips from 1969 and 1970. Some of the memorable moments include: Lucy throws Schroeder's piano into the kite eating tree, Snoopy lands on the moon (in his imagination), the little red-haired girl moves away, Snoopy gets elected Head Beagle and Woodstock gets a name. Peanuts was a comic strip masterpiece and this book has two years worth of proof of that. I might mention as an aside that although Snoopy is pictured as the World War I Flying Ace on the cover, there are only a handful of strips in which he portrays that character.