{"id":6681,"date":"2022-01-22T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:54:23","slug":"a-charlie-brown-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/a-charlie-brown-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charlie Brown Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I found a listing on eBay that offered four old issues of Children’s Digest, a magazine that reprinted and excerpted stories for kids. Included in the lot was the December 1970 issue.<\/p>\n

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Well, I glommed on to that one, because with the cover announcement of “Peanuts” Feature: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS <\/em>clearly inside it was going to have a reprinting of the only adaptation that had been done by that time, the Dale Hale-illustrated one. It’d probably be edited down to fit into a few pages, but any print adaptation of\u00a0 A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> that I don’t have is a print adaptation of\u00a0 A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> that I need!<\/p>\n

But it turns out, no. While it does have a couple paragraph description of the special, it’s part of promoting you to watch the special on CBS, December 5. I don’t think it’s enough to count as an adaptation, merely a summary. The real Peanuts content in there is the reprinting of four Christmas-themed daily strips from about a decade before. So I am disappointed. And some of you are probably saying “but hey, at least you got a Schulz cover”, but that was not an original piece of art for this book. I have it on a number of things, including the December 1966 issue of Catholic Boy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But that’s not to say the purchase was not worthwhile. I did, after all, get this and three other issues of\u00a0Children’s Digest<\/em>, including their serialization of Tintin comics. And the seller included a note and a Jack Chick minicomic tract trying to convert me to Christianity. It didn’t work (I hear an “awwww!” coming up from some corners of my audience), but I always appreciate getting a Chick tract without myself supporting his cause. They are fascinating documents.<\/p>\n

(And stuck into the Peanuts issue, presumably used as a bookmark in 1972, was a children’s church offering envelope with a very racist message on it. An interesting bit of sadness.)<\/p>\n

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