The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box Set

The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box Set by Charles M. Schulz (based on 20 customer reviews)

(Hardcover)
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

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35 out of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 9/24/07

About the whole series of "The Complete Peanuts" books

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

4 out of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 10/1/07

Overall Review

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.

4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 3/26/08

Complete 2-book Set : Identical as the books sold separately only cheaper!

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)