num_pages: 325
description: Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus becomes more eloquent, and more neurotic; Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom; but the rising star is master mimic and blanket thief Snoopy. As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week "Lost Weekend" sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes "the Goat" and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired "pencil pal" affords him some comfort. Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus's blanket at a dead run). He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results. And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy. No wonder the beagle is the cover star of this volume. 730 b/w comic strips
language: English
title: The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 4: 1957-1958
titlecomplete: The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 4: 1957-1958
characters: Linus Van Pelt, Schroeder, Snoopy, Lucy Van Pelt, Pig Pen, Charlie Brown
genres: Sequential Art, Humor, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Cartoon, Comics, Classics, Fiction, Graphic Novels
ratings_count: 1769
series: The Complete Peanuts
publisher: Fantagraphics