The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library (and one of the few items that is not currently in a moving box marked “Peanuts – Various”… makes it so easy to find things!) is this first issue of Comic Hits.

Haven’t heard of this Peanuts comic book? I’m not surprised. Basically, this takes the internals of Tom & Jerry Comics issue 188, Tip Top Comics issue 221, and the comic book adaptation of the 1960 film The Boy And The Pirates (Four Color 1117), puts them behind a cover with an image taken from Tom & Jerry Comics issue 161. It’s the Tip Top issue that makes this a Peanuts comic, as that issue had the eight-page Peanuts story “Mechanical Maniac” (the kids deal with a robot).

Now, they included all of the contents of the original issues, including the ads, which means that they had mail order ads for things kids might want to buy with their dollars… which would be handy if this were meant for kids in the United States. Alas, this book was aimed at the kids in Australia, with its price in pounds and the one new ad for this edition (the back cover) for a mail order item from New South Wales.

Now, I don’t know what the contents of Comic Hits issue 2 is. It may have Peanuts, it may not. But I’ve found information on issue 3, and not only is there no Peanuts material, it reprints work from a completely different publisher.  Issue 1 is all Dell comics, while issue 3 is all Harvey (Casper, Hot Stuf, and such.) So for now, I’ll assume that I have every issue of Comic Hits that I really need. Perhaps even one more than that…

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