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The Mad Punter Strikes Again is a collection of Peanuts
comic strips. This book includes cartoons from Snoopy, Come Home from the years 1955 - 1962 and
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown
from the years 1960 - 1962. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
This collection contains the following storylines: Freeway Coming
Through Snoopy's House, Whirlydog, The Mad Punter Strikes Again, Linus'
Glasses, Snowman, Bird Meetings, Vulture, The Icicle, Tenants, Miss
Othmar, Stomping Out Germs, World Problems, Linus the Spy, and Manager
Wanted.
On October
2, 1950, Peanuts
debuted
in seven newspapers
and ran until January
3, 2000 when Charles M. Schulz bid a fond farewell to all his readers in
the final daily Peanuts newspaper strip. On February
12, 2000, Charles Schulz died on a Saturday evening, of complications
from colon cancer in Santa Rosa, CA. He was 77 years old. On February
13, 2000, the final Sunday Peanuts newspaper strip appeared. "Charles
M. Schulz
(b. 1922) is the most widely syndicated cartoonist in history, with his
work appearing in over 2,300 newspapers. He has published more than
1,400 books, won Peabody and Emmy awards for his animated specials, and
is responsible for the most-produced musical in the American theatre,
entitled "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". And all this
diversity and recognition and continuous success began over
50
years ago." (Illustration
House)
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