Read these strips at gocomics.com . I'll say this much about Universal's archives having poorly-cropped strips at this point; b...

Read these strips at gocomics.com . Another triple. March 18, 1954: If you're as small as Linus, a bag of blocks is in fact a very ...

Read these strips at gocomics.com . Some more glued-together strips. I'm going to have to go in and fix these when/if they correct t...

Read this strip at gocomics.com . Three more strips that were presented glued together. March 8, 1954: Linus and his blocks again. As...

Read these strips at gocomics.com . Second verse same as the first . February 4, 1954: Linus: kid of impossibility!  This is what I was...

January 16, 1954 : Sunday, January 17, 1954 : Surprisingly many of Peanuts characters have a special talent, one that overrides the l...

January 11, 1954 : January 12, 1954 : The first one is more an observational strip about human nature than Lucy's personality spe...

Read this comic at gocomics.com. In this strip, we begin to see that Schulz is becoming more careful about showing emotions.  It's no...

Being thoughts, this doesn't count as Linus' first words. I'm not even sure this counts as Linus' first thought balloons,...

I think it's just the idea of "BOO" that startles Charlie Brown in this strip. A philosophical horror at the nature of the...

Lucy gets a lot of use out of her blocks. The premise of this strip relies on Charlie Brown not noticing Lucy as she constructs her stai...

Slowly over the months, the character's shapes have been edging closer to the modern style. All of the characters except Lucy have t...

The image for May 8 is broken on Comics.com's site. Lucy would show her gratitude towards Charlie Brown for not demolishing her bloc...

This strip is here mostly because it seems a lot like something Linus would do. Also, while there might be an earlier example, this is d...

Lucy's third strip here. She looks fairly different with those huge eyes, doesn't she? Probably added to make her more visually ...