The Complete Peanuts #2

A young Lucy van Pelt fills the cover with an absolutely tremendous wail — mouth wide open, eyes squeezed shut — and it's hard not to smile at the sheer drama of it all. This second volume from Canongate gathers Charles M. Schulz's daily and Sunday strips from 1953 to 1954, presenting the gang in their early, wonderfully loose form with an introduction by Walter Cronkite. If you've been following this definitive collection, this 2007 edition is an essential continuation of one of the most beloved comic strips ever put to paper.