Please help! Im looking for a few cartoons that were included in a Peanuts cartoon book I read prob before 1982 & maybe even 1980. In these strips, and there were maybe 3-4 different ones, Patty was complaining about having been asked to do something. She says something like “I’ll just wobble over on my little Bobby Orr legs” in one of them. I can’t remember the others. At the time, they struck me as the funniest things I had ever read, anywhere and I had no idea who Bobby Orr was. Does anyone know where I can find copies? Originally I found them in a softcover book of Peanuts strips which may have been published in the mid to late 70s.
I vaguely remember those. My grandparents had those books in the attic, but now that I think about it, why? The oldest of my generation of cousins was 2 when those books came out, the generation before was in their 20’s, sort of too old for Peanuts comics.
Anyway, here. That at least tells you when they were originally published.
Fantagraphics has reprinted the entire run in 25 hardcover books, although they aren’t cheap (usually around $20 each). They are reprinting them in a paperback edition, although they’re not that much cheaper, as well as printing books of the Sunday strips in color and in something close to “original size.”
And quite a few references are dated; the one that comes to mind is, one strip from late 1962 has three panels of Charlie Brown and Linus sitting on a curb, and in the last panel, Charlie Brown screams, “Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball three feet higher?”, a reference to the last play of Game 7 of the 1962 World Series. (Not only did San Francisco not win a World Series in Schulz’s lifetime, but the only other pennant they won before he died was when the World Series earthquake happened.)
I remember that one. As a sports fan I knew who Bobby Orr was, but I did not know who Ruby Keeler was (she along with her legs was referenced in a later strip that same summer).
My parents brought me many of those soft-cover Peanuts compilations when I was a kid in the 1970s, and I do remember that particular strip (actually, I think there was a series of them, with the height the ball should have been hit shrinking with each strip). I had no idea who McCovey was, just figured he was a ball payer, perhaps even a fictional one like Joe Shlabotnik. Didn’t affect the humor any.
San Francisco, eh? Just another clue that no matter how Schultz denied it, the Peanut-verse was set in the flatter sections (such as they are) of the north Bay Area. (I remember Petaluma being mentioned a few times in the strips, which is not far from Santa Rosa).
It’s worth noting that this summer camp storyline introduced Marcy to the strip. Originally, Schulz was going to make a punchline out of Marcy being a boy with long hair.
Since the OP specified “book” were you actually confused by the term “cartoon”?
While not accurate it seems perfectly comprehensible to me.
What confused you so much about the term “cartoon” given that the context was “Peanuts cartoon book I read prob before 1982 & maybe even 1980. In these strips,”
