Peanuts on Free Comic Book Day

Free Comic Book Day isn’t until May 2, but they’ve already announced the participating books (so that retailers can order them). And yes, there will be some Peanuts content in the free comic being issued by Boom!, but given the ten different series they intend to showcase in the book, expect it to just be a couple of pages. Should be some other good stuff in there as well. This is a “gold book”, which just means that almost every retailer supporting Free Comic Book Day will order it (they have to order all the gold books to get a certain level of promotional support from FCBD central.)

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