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Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Dream the new Peanuts animated movie features Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace―see where it all began in this all-ages gift book collection of Schulz's newspaper strip! Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron collects all of Schulz's beloved strips starring Snoopy as the famous World War I flying ace in his perennial battles with the infamous Red Baron of Germany. "Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more / the bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score / Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree / of the bloody Red Baron of Germany...In the nick of time, a hero arose / A funny-looking dog with a big black nose" Including both dailies and Sundays, Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron follows the valiant and indefatigable Snoopy as, time after time in his doghouse/Sopwith Camel, he braves the wrath of his unseen aerial foe. The brave little beagle's epic battles are brought to thrilling cartoon life. "He flew into the sky to seek revenge / But the Baron shot him down / "Curses, foiled again!" The Snoopy and Red Baron encounters were some of the most inspired―and most popular―episodes in all of Peanuts and among the stories most beloved by children and adults alike. Black & white illustrations throughout
200 pages, Hardcover
First published November 5, 2015
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Charles M. Schulz
3,022 books1,636 followersCharles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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March 25, 2018
Curse you Red Baron! Lots of fun! Snoopy always brings a smile!
November 17, 2024
Il volume raccoglie tutte le strisce a tema "asso della I guerra mondiale" rigorosamente in bianco e nero. C'è una prima parte con vignette soprattutto degli anni '80, una seconda parte raccoglie le vignette anni '60-'70 e infine ci sono le tavole domenicali che sono più lunghe della classica striscia a quattro vignette. Sono queste ultime quelle in cui Schulz può esprimere il meglio di sé.
Come si fa a non amare questo brachetto pieno di fantasia sempre a caccia del Barone Rosso o a bere orzate per annegare i dispiaceri della guerra!
Come si fa a non amare questo brachetto pieno di fantasia sempre a caccia del Barone Rosso o a bere orzate per annegare i dispiaceri della guerra!
July 15, 2023
Doing research for my WIP. =)
February 7, 2017
De niña fui más fanática de Garfield que de Snoopy, de hecho consideraba al último como una tira "plana", hace un par de años fui a ver la película de Snoopy y hubo muchas cosas que me encantaron, entre ellas la escena en la que lucha contra el barón rojo, así que después de eso decidí comprarme algunas cosa de este beagle, y la verdad no me arrepiento, Snoopy es un poco como el Principito, una historia que puede ser clasificada de "infantil", pero que de eso no tiene nada. Las referencias que hace Schulz a la guerra como veterano que fue él, a los derechos de las mujeres, a el ser introvertido, y a no tener miedo de que todos vean al rarito que siempre anda con lentes y un gorro de piloto, es una gran lección para los "grandes", me he divertido mucho leyendo esta colección, y aunque Charlie muchas veces piense porque no tiene un perro normal, es mejor tener a un beagle ex piloto as de la Primera Guerra Mundial que también tiene experiencia en horas vuelo civiles
November 14, 2025
A Lot of WWI
Who knew there could have been so many flying missions in the month of October in 1918. There were definitely more than there were days of the month, possibly even more then there were days of the war for that year. It felt a little bit much, especially when some of the strips mixed in other favorite story lines from the Peanuts gang. Still, it is a great piece of Peanuts memorabilia!
Who knew there could have been so many flying missions in the month of October in 1918. There were definitely more than there were days of the month, possibly even more then there were days of the war for that year. It felt a little bit much, especially when some of the strips mixed in other favorite story lines from the Peanuts gang. Still, it is a great piece of Peanuts memorabilia!
May 14, 2022
Mi padre leía pocos tebeos, pero de los peanuts tenía por lo menos quince libros en sus estanterías. En el proceso natural de absorción y descarte de las estanterías de mi padre descubrí a Charlie Brown, el antihéroe, y a Snoopy y a Woodstock, héroes peculiares, y a Linus y su manta, y a Schroeder y su piano, y a Lucy, enamorada de Schroeder, y a Patty y a Sally, y a todos los demás. De trazo simple, con líneas argumentales que oscilaban entre una y doscientas tiras, Charles Schulz creó durante 50 años (solo Ibáñez ha sido más prolífico durante más tiempo) un pequeño universo al que he vuelto alguna vez, para comprobar con gusto que, si bien ya no me llama como antes, no ha envejecido mal.
Hay tantas tiras (más de 18.000 en 50 años, se dice pronto) que, como dicen de los Simpson, toda cosa que pase ha salido ya probablemente en una tira de Charlie Brown. Las leí sobre todo entre mis 10 y mis 15 años, pero cuando me he cruzado con alguna en años posteriores ha seguido aguantando el tipo y, por supuesto, se aprecian má mensajes destinados al adulto. La maravilla de las cosas bien hechas, que apelan a todos los públicos. Altamente recomendable.
Hay tantas tiras (más de 18.000 en 50 años, se dice pronto) que, como dicen de los Simpson, toda cosa que pase ha salido ya probablemente en una tira de Charlie Brown. Las leí sobre todo entre mis 10 y mis 15 años, pero cuando me he cruzado con alguna en años posteriores ha seguido aguantando el tipo y, por supuesto, se aprecian má mensajes destinados al adulto. La maravilla de las cosas bien hechas, que apelan a todos los públicos. Altamente recomendable.
December 7, 2015
It's kind of sad to realize how much of what I know about World War I can be attributed to Snoopy and the Red Baron. This collection of 200 pages of classic Peanuts strips, apparently features every Red Baron strip (although I think it may have missed a couple). I was surprised at how many of them I didn't know, especially some of the longer form series (like Marcie dealing with Snoopy's prodigious Root Beer drinking in her kitchen), and actually elicited laughter. For such an off-the-wall concept as Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, it's amazing how well it worked, and how much cultural impact it has had. Reading this collection just highlights how good Schulz was at writing these characters and taking them wherever he wanted, no matter what logic might say. Definitely a worthwhile read for Peanuts fans.
November 10, 2025
If I didn't miscount, then Snoopy is shot down by the Red Baron at least 27 times. Four other times, we join him when he's already behind enemy lines but without showing us how. Since the overwhelming number of times Snoopy is shot down is at the hands of the Red Baron, we'll give the Baron 4 probable victories. Snoopy was shot down once by anti-aircraft fire and once by friendly fire (when he stole a Fokker to escape from behind enemy lines and was shot down by his own side).
So that give the Red Baron 31 victories out of the 80 he had before he was killed in April of 1918. That means 39% of his victories were against Snoopy. Without Snoopy, he would have had only 49 victories and would have been Germany's third most successful ace pilot rather than first. He would have been behind Ernst Udet (62 victories) and Erich Loewenhardt (54 victories).
It's important to know these things.
So that give the Red Baron 31 victories out of the 80 he had before he was killed in April of 1918. That means 39% of his victories were against Snoopy. Without Snoopy, he would have had only 49 victories and would have been Germany's third most successful ace pilot rather than first. He would have been behind Ernst Udet (62 victories) and Erich Loewenhardt (54 victories).
It's important to know these things.
May 31, 2017
Snoopy. The Red Baron. A Sopwith Camel. A Fokker Triplane roaring out of the rising sun. The World War I flying ace flies high in this volume that compiles both daily and Sunday strips that feature Snoopy as the flying ace. Of all the wonderful "Peanuts" strips, Snoopy as the WWI ace are my favorites and this book was a real treat from the beginning to the end which appropriately in the last panel of the book was Linus shaking Snoopy's paw. "So long old friend. I'll miss you." That's how I feel about the loss of Schulz and his wonderful cartoon insights. I am thankful, though, for the books and print materials that keep his keen insights, sharp humor, and deep philosophical insights alive. This one does that and more, and it will go on my shelf to read again when I need to be reminded of the joys of life and the power of imagination.
May 26, 2017
As a lifelong writer with a vivid imagination, Snoopy has always been my favorite Peanuts character. Also, as a WWI aviation enthusiast, his fanciful battles with that war's highest scoring ace are always a treat. I was so glad to read all the Red Baron comics in one volume. However, it is best to read this book in small bursts as some of the tropes can become repetitive in long stints. If you're one of those lucky souls who can afford The Complete Peanuts, you can safely skip this book (unless you're like me and want all your Red Baron action in one place). However, for Snoopy fans on a budget, this is a must-have.
4.5 stars.
4.5 stars.
August 17, 2025
Curse you, Red Baron!
This is a great collection of Peanuts strips focused on Snoopy as the famous World War I Fjying Ace persona. They are so fun and creative. Snoopy’s imagination is top notch. It is so well designed, Charlie Brown and the gang not only understand exactly what is going on; they actually join in many times.
Peppermint Patty taking flights on the Sopwith Camel, Linus attacking, Marcie playing the pretty fresh lass. All classic.
This is a great collection of Peanuts strips focused on Snoopy as the famous World War I Fjying Ace persona. They are so fun and creative. Snoopy’s imagination is top notch. It is so well designed, Charlie Brown and the gang not only understand exactly what is going on; they actually join in many times.
Peppermint Patty taking flights on the Sopwith Camel, Linus attacking, Marcie playing the pretty fresh lass. All classic.
May 15, 2017
My all-time favorite because I love the "Flying Ace" strips--they remind me of my own imagination.
November 22, 2017
Fun to read. Until I sat down to read all of the Red Baron strips together, I hadn’t realized how repetitive they were. Still enjoyable, though.
August 6, 2018
Nothing like it in the world.
September 2, 2018
Lots of fun seeing the collected "Red Baron" themed comics. Doubt it's all of them, but enough to make it worthwhile.
November 30, 2019
Snoopy è il mio personaggio preferito tra i Peanuts e qui da il meglio di sé.
Veramente troppo divertente!
Veramente troppo divertente!
June 29, 2021
Lovely
Snoopy is one of the best comics that I have ever read. Style, characters, story, and childhood are unique. Make life become easier and funny
Snoopy is one of the best comics that I have ever read. Style, characters, story, and childhood are unique. Make life become easier and funny
September 8, 2021
Snoopy is so adorable, i couldn't dislike this if i'd tried; the fact that it often had me chuckling didn't hurt, either.
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October 10, 2023
It’s Snoopy. What more is necessary in life.
December 29, 2015
My favorite part of Peanuts when I was a kid was Snoopy's imaginary escapades, and the World War I flying ace was certainly his coolest occupation. I remember even playing the "Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron" video game, which was a ton of fun. It was a joy to be able to see all the flying ace comics Schulz did gathered into one volume here.
December 30, 2016
A wonderful collection of comics focused on Snoopy’s battles with the Red Baron. I’m looking forward to reading it myself, if The Nine-Year-Old will ever let go of it.
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September 2, 2016
A passable compilation of the many strips associated with Snoopy's obsession with the Red Baron. Some are good, several are of uneven quality. Where Schulz really shines is in the Sunday cartoons which allows him more leeway on the storytelling and that's where this book earns its rating.
December 13, 2015
I loved Snoopy as a kid (and still do) and it was a lot of fun to revisit these strips chronicling his fantasies of being a World War I flying ace, battling the Red Baron.
February 23, 2016
if you are a peanuts fan this one really good book
March 7, 2016
Snoopy is always cool.
January 1, 2017
Follow the Snoopy on adventures as the WWI Flying Ace. See all his adventures or misadventures as he tries to take down the Red Baron. Schulz's cartoons are fun and entertaining for everyone.
April 14, 2017
Snoopy reminds me of a certain someone I know in my Charlie Brown-like existence/life. "Curse you, Red Baron!"
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