The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974, the 12th volume,picks up on a few loose threads from the previous year: meanwhile, Rerun embarkson his first terrifying journey on the back of his mom's bike and theschoolhouse Sally used to talk to starts talking, or at least thinking, back ather! This collection also includes one of the all-time classic Peanutssequences, in which Charlie Brown's baseball-oriented hallucinations finallymanifest themselves in a baseball-shaped rash on his head. Forced to conceal theembarrassing discoloration with a bag worn over his head, Charlie Brown goes tocamp as "Mister Sack" and discovers that, shorn of his identity, he's suddenlywell-liked and successful. Since the volume features a number of tennis stripsas well as extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie(including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie's costume-making andhairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), it seems onlyright that this volume's introduction should be served up by Schulz's longtimefriend, tennis champion Billie Jean King.