25th anniversary of a Peanuts book

With the upcoming release of not one but two fiftieth anniversary edition of Happiness is a Warm Puppy, I thought it was time to look at a volume I see surprisingly infrequently: the twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

This edition came out in, ummm (runs out of fingers, starts to pull of socks before giving up) an earlier year, published by Topper Books. And the good thing about is it now in how it differs from the original edition (although it does in a major way, being a paperback), but in how it didn’t. During the years in-between, an all-new edition had been issued with far more pages, far more colors per page, new art, larger page size, and a fraction of the charm. So this was a restoration – and it was, thank goodness, one that kept, as the edition that it followed has not been returned to print. The original is good stuff.

Classic finds
Wheelnuts

 I just picked up the July 1964 issue of Drag Cartoons, a black and white comics magazine focused not on performative gender-bending as the youth must suspect, but on souped-up autos, including not just drag racers but hot rods as well. Did I pick it up because it had a …

Classic finds
Japanese stocking

Over a month after I got a shipment of a handful of Peanuts books from Japan, I am finally getting around to chronicling the last of these. This was one which came as a surprise to me, because I had been under the assumption that the translation of Charles M. Schulz: …

Classic finds
Encyclopedia Brown has met his match

Yes, I know I’ve not yet finished chronicling the books I got in that shipment from Japan, but Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blog wanted a scan of the new item the AAUGH Blog Reference Library received yesterday, and as long as I was at it, I reckoned I might take …