I found, via Tom Spurgeon, this exhaustive history of Peanuts in comic books, in a blog on Timely-Atlas Comics.
This cover does look like it's by Charles Schulz, and it's amazing:
And this is a tantalizing glimpse of the first page of a four page story by Schulz:
The stuff not by Schulz, not surprisingly, does not look too good. This looks like a mediocre parody of a Peanuts strip, right down to the needlessly shouted punchline and levitating, cringing reacting characters.
But it would be a dream to collect all this in a popularly priced, historically respectful book (as Fantagraphics does so masterfully). Even the non-Schulz stuff was supposedly supervised by Schulz, and so holds some interest.
I spoke to Paige Braddock of Schulz Creative Associates a few months ago, and she said that they were considering a book of this material at one point, and might do so again.
Boom Studios? Fantagraphics? LET'S GET ON IT!!! <reaction shot of levitating, cringing comic book publishers>
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