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How Long, Great Pumpkin,
How Long? is a collection
of Peanuts comic strips written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. This
book includes cartoons from the years 1972 - 1973. These comic strips originally appeared in the smaller paperback
books You're the Guest of Honor, Charlie Brown and Win a Few,
Lose a Few, Charlie
Brown. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
This
collection contains the following story arcs: Charity Baseball Game for
Stomach-Aches, Snoopy Plays Tennis, Baseball Rash (Mr. Sack), Marcie
Plays Baseball, Snoopy Might Tie Babe Ruth's Record for Home Runs,
Peppermint Patty - Houseguest, Snow League (Snowman Building), Sally
Doesn't Want Any Christmas Presents, The Comet Kohoutek, Rerun Rides on
the Back of His Mother's Bicycle, Snoopy Types Peppermint Patty's Term
Paper, and Peppermint Patty Quits School
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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