Complete Peanuts – upcoming covers

Bopping around The Comics Reporter today, I find a link to where Complete Peanuts editor Kim Thompson has announced the planned list of who will be on the covers of the volumes:

  1. 1950-52. CHARLIE BROWN
  2. 1953-54. LUCY
  3. 1955-56. PIG-PEN
  4. 1957-58. SNOOPY
  5. 1959-60. PATTY
  6. 1961-62. SCHROEDER
  7. 1963-64. LINUS
  8. 1965-66. CHARLIE BROWN
  9. 1967-68. VIOLET
  10. 1969-70. SNOOPY (FLYING ACE)
  11. 1971-72. SALLY
  12. 1973-74. WOODSTOCK
  13. 1975-76. PEPPERMINT PATTY
  14. 1977-78. CHARLIE BROWN
  15. 1979-80. FRIEDA
  16. 1981-82. SPIKE
  17. 1983-84. LINUS
  18. 1985-86. FRANKLIN
  19. 1987-88. LUCY
  20. 1989-90. CHARLIE BROWN
  21. 1991-92. MARCIE
  22. 1950-52. CHARLIE BROWN
  23. 1995-96. RERUN
  24. 1997-98. PEPPERMINT PATTY
  25. 1999-2000. CHARLIE BROWN.

So keep your money ready!

Upcoming releases
A box of squares

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Upcoming releases
Game Day returns

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An unauthorized? biography

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