Peanuts 19

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Here’s the cover to volume 2, issue 19 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book, shipping in June. (This will make a full two dozen issues produced by them, meaning that they will have already produced around 2/3s as many pages of Peanuts comic book material as were in the Dell and Gold Key comics of the 1950s and 1960s… closing in on three thirds if you include the graphic novelization of Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown and the original graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown.)

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