January 31, 1955 Charlotte meets Linus. This may actually be the only strip that features the two of them. Unlike Pig-Pen, who has a simil...

Read this strip at gocomics.com . I probably should stop linking to every sight gag strip.  This one's pretty funny for that last p...

Read this strip at gocomics.com. In an unusual inversion from the norm in later strips, here it's Charlie Brown's imagination tha...

January 18, 1954 : January 19, 1954 : January 20, 1954 : January 21, 1954 : Let's do a few this time: January 18: This strip is ...

Read this strip at gocomics.com. Wow, that's a smug look on Charlie Brown's face in the third panel.  Whatever happened to annoy ...

Read this strip at gocomics.com. Should this go on the list of Snoopy powers? Charlie Brown's mistake here is in assuming Snoopy is...

Read this comic at gocomics.com. 8,000 games now.  So, Lucy plays because Charlie Brown takes losing personally, eh?  She does make it t...

At least Charlie Brown isn't claiming to be perfect anymore. This is more like the CB we know, and it also points to what we might c...

September 23 : September 24 : The cracks are showing. In that second strip BTW it's kind of jarring how cocky Charlie Brown is. ...

Charlie Brown and Patty discuss why they like each other. I think this one is fairly interesting for that. How many of us like someone j...

I'm rather fond of this one. It's a good example of an idea you simply don't see in other comic strips. What is it about it ...

This is a common pattern for strips around this time: Charlie Brown is exults in being right about something, and the character who was wr...

Chagrimace! Lucy has quickly become the most frequent female character, and second only to Charlie Brown in recent appearances. Patty a...

Lucy is what we might call an expert drinker of other peoples' milkshakes. Chagrimace!

Charlie Brown isn't a very nice kid in these two comics. June 13, 1953 Patty and Violet's reaction at the end here (including of...

These frames contain some of the more action-oriented Peanuts poses. Particularly frame 5. Later on the female characters' dresses s...

So they asked Charlie Brown for his opinion specifically to go against it? That's not very friendly. The wide smile on Schroeder...

I think this is the first strip to really solidify Charlie Brown's emerging personality. That of the depressed everyman, who consider...

This strip finally puts a solid finger on Snoopy's owner. If he's part of Charlie Brown's family, then he must certainly be h...

The Little Red-Haired Girl is some time off, but still, this is the first time Charlie Brown is depressed from getting no valentines. It...