Well, it took a sort of round about route in getting here, but it's now on our shelves --  the second volume of the most demanded project in the history of comic strip collections:  The Complete Peanuts.  This volume contains every daily and Sunday Peanuts strip from January 1, 1953 to December 31, 1954; 730 in all, along with an index to enable you to search for particular actions, themes and characters.  With this volume sitting on your shelf, you can relax, knowing you always have immediate consolation within reach.  A security blanket for the everyman.  – Introduction by Walter Cronkite!  Fanta sez:   "The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts’ third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently-born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen and his dust cloud join the crowd. Linus, who still doesn’t speak, begins to emerge as one of the most complex and endearing characters in the strip: garrulous and inquisitive yet gentle and tolerant. And, in this volume, he acquires his security blanket! Charlie Brown is becoming his best-known self, the lovable, perpetually-humiliated round-headed loser, but he hasn’t yet abandoned his brasher, prankish behavior from Volume One. And, Lucy, this book’s cover girl, has grown up and forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action, proudly wearing her banner as a troublemaker, or, in Schulz’s memorable phrase, a “fussbudget”.  For readers unfamiliar with the early years of the strip, Snoopy’s appearances here may come as the biggest surprise: he behaves, for the most part, like a dog! But, although he doesn’t yet walk upright, sleep on top of his doghouse, or possess a fantasy life, Snoopy has started thinking for himself and his evolution continues its fascinating course within these pages. If you watch carefully, you’ll catch his very first shark impression.  The vast majority of the daily and Sunday strips collected here are not currently available in any in-print Peanuts collection. Dozens of them have not been reprinted since their initial appearance in newspapers over 50 years ago."