The Complete Peanuts #1

The cover of this Fantagraphics collection says it all: a whistling Charlie Brown lugs his paper route bag down a sunny suburban sidewalk while a little girl looks on, with a strip sequence alongside showing him getting hilariously pelted by a chaos of loose newspapers. Spanning the strip's earliest years of 1950–1952, this volume gathers Charles M. Schulz's complete daily and Sunday comics in a handsome, readable edition. It's a warm and genuinely funny entry point into the world that would go on to charm readers for generations.