Peanuts 1 comic book cover

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As expected, Boom! Studios will be following up their Peanuts #0 comic book issue with… issue 1! Coming in January, this will be a mixture of new stories and reprinted Sunday strips.

And yes, the cover is recycled again. The cover is the image from issue 7 of the Peanuts comics published by Dell in the 1960s (specifically, the January 1961 issue, which means it would actually have been released in late 1960.) If they’re going to continue to reuse the Dell covers, you’re going to discover a certain lack of diversity, as every single one of those covers had two characters on them – always Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

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