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Date of daily debut:
Oct. 2, 1950
Date of first Sunday strip: January 6, 1952
Last daily strip: January 3, 2000
Last Sunday strip: February 13, 2000
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07-23-2003, 12:34 AM
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Cartoons done by Charles Schulz prior to Peanuts:
"Just Keep Laughing"
"Sparky's Li'l Folks"
"Li'l Folks"
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07-23-2003, 12:35 AM
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Other, unnamed cartoons appeared in the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950.
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07-23-2003, 12:37 AM
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As is well documented, Schulz never liked the name Peanuts, and would rather have used "Li'l Folks" (except that Li'l Abner was still popular) or "Good Ol' Charlie Brown" but the syndicate didn't want to focus on the single character.
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07-23-2003, 12:42 AM
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First seven newspapers to carry Peanuts:
Washington Post
Chicago Tribune
Star Tribune of Minneapolis
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
Bethlehem Globe-Times
Denver Post
Seattle Times
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07-23-2003, 12:44 AM
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When the strip ended and Schulz passed away, over 2500 newspapers worldwide were running Peanuts daily (number that still are is unknown).
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Dates of note from the 1950s:
1951 - (date unreadable)
Snoopy's first thought balloon
November 14, 1951
Charlie Brown fails to kick the football for the first time, but Violet was the one holding the ball
September, 1952
Linus's first appearance
November 16, 1952
Lucy first holds a football for Charlie Brown
June 1, 1954
Debut of Linus' security blanket
July 1954
Pig-Pen is introduced
January 5, 1956
Snoopy first walks on two legs
1958
Yale University names Schulz Cartoonist of the Year.
August 23, 1959
Sally debuts (as an infant)
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Dates of note from the 1960s:
March 11, 1960
Charlie Brown's father is revealed to be a barber
1960
Hallmark introduces Peanuts greeting cards
1961
Frieda introduced
November 19, 1961
Charlie Brown first pines for the little red-haired girl
1962
Peanuts is named Best Humor Strip of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society
October 1965
Snoopy has his first "fight" with the Red Baron
April 4, 1967
A bird strongly resembling Woodstock debuts
May 18, 1969
Charlie Brown and Snoopy accompany astronauts into space aboard Apollo X
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Dates of note from the 1970s:
July 20, 1971
Marcie first calls Peppermint Patty "Sir"
November 20, 1973
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving debuts, and wins an Emmy Award
January 21, 1974
Rerun first appears on his mother's bicycle
August 13, 1975
Spike debuts
January 27, 1977
Sally first dubs Linus her "Sweet Babboo"
June 28, 1979
The WW1 Flying Ace visits with the "cute little French girl" (Marcie)
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Dates of note from the 1980s:
January 7, 1980
Peppermint Patty gives a correct answer in her class
August 1, 1983
Peanuts Collectors Club debuts, with a 12-page newsletter
July 1, 1984
Peanuts is now seen in a record -breaking 2,000 newspapers around the world
November 4, 1985
Sally begins to look for Halley's Comet
January 24, 1989
Olaf debuts
October 1, 1989
Good Grief, the only authorized biography of Charles Schulz, is published
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Dates of note in the 1990s:
September 24, 1990
Pig Pen runs for class president
April 21, 1994
Lucy catches a fly ball
September 1, 1991
Schroeder becomes a spokesman for National Piano Month
March 30, 1993
Charlie Brown hits his first home run
August 6, 1993
Sally discovers that her family is "famous" …because they're in the telephone book
December 14, 1999
Charles Schulz officially retires
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On May 27th 2000 a number of comics in North America ran tribute strips posthumously for Charles Schulz. Some of these can be viewed on peanuts.com.
Illiad's UserFriendly joined in (and his can be seen on his website). After Schulz's retirement, even South Africa's Madam & Eve ran a tribute (though that one appears to no longer be online).
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Characters Shermy and Patty, who had been part of the "original lineup" disappeared from the strip completely during the 1960s.
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A very short lived character was "Charlotte Braun." She only appeared around 1954.
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The first licensed, plastic figures of the characters were maed by Hungerford Plastics Corp. in 1958.
Figures included Schroeder, with piano, complete with bust of Beethoven, Sally, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus with blanket, Lucy and a CLEAN Pig-Pen!
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