n nIn Snoopy-family news, Spike is drafted into the Infantry (dont worry, its only Snoopys imaginary World War I army), and a brand new brother, Marbles (with the spotty ears) takes his bow. We also see two major baseball-oriented stories, one in which Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Pattys team, and another in which Charlie Brown and his team lose their baseball field. n nIn other stories, Peppermint Patty witnesses the butterfly miracle, Linus protests that he is not Sallys Sweet Babboo, Sally (in an unrelated sequence) gets fat, the Van Pelts get into farming, and two of the most eccentric characters from later Peanuts years, the hyperaggressive Molly Volley and the whiny Crybaby Boobie, make a return engagement. n nCharles Schulzs Peanuts world will never grow old, and Fantagraphics complete reprinting of this masterpiece, now in its eighth year -- still lovingly designed by world-class cartoonist Seth -- has firmly established itself as one of the very finest archival comic-strip projects ever done.