The Complete Peanuts #5

Charlie Brown stands on the pitcher's mound in full baseball gear, boldly declaring his do-or-die moment — only to deflate with a quiet "sigh It's him…" in the very next panel, and that perfectly captures the endearing, bittersweet humor Charles M. Schulz brought to the 1959–1960 strips collected here. This fifth volume of Fantagraphics' Complete Peanuts series gathers two full years of Schulz's masterful daily and Sunday strips, with the cover art drawn by Schulz himself making the promise plain: great comedy and genuine heart await inside.