num_pages: 344
description: The twelfth volume of Peanuts features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Pattys friend Marcie (including a riotous rarely seen sequence in which Marcies costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP) so it seems only right that this volumes introduction should be served up by Schulzs longtime friend tennis champion Billie Jean King. This volume also picks up on a few loose threads from the previous year as the mysterious Poochie shows up in the flesh; Linus and Lucys new kid brother Rerun makes his first appearance is almost immediately drafted onto the baseball team (where thanks to his tiny strike zone he wins a game) and embarks on his first terrifying journey on the back of his moms bike; and in one of Peanuts oddest recurring storylines the schoolhouse Sally used to talk to starts talking or at least thinking back at her! The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 also includes one of the all-time classic Peanuts sequences in which Charlie Browns baseball-oriented hallucinations finally manifest themselves in a baseball-shaped rash on his head. Forced to conceal the embarrassing discoloration with a bag worn over his head Charlie Brown goes to camp as Mister Sack and discovers that shorn of his identity hes suddenly well liked and successful.
language: English
title: The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 12: 1973-1974
publisher: Fantagraphics