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Showing posts with label firsts. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

November 29-December 4: GOOD OL' CHARLOTTE BRAUN

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November 29, 1954 He is a dog, after all. I'm surprised that Snoopy's amazing, candy-detecting nose failed to realize Charlie Brown...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Week of July 12-17, 1954: Pig-Pen

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July 12 It's funny, but before Linus comes on the scene, Lucy fills many of the same rolls, as someone Charlie Brown can just talk to. ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sunday, January 3, 1954: More of Lucy's infatuation with Schroeder

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Read this comic at gocomics.com. We've recently seen more hints about Lucy's developing self-centered personality.  We've seen...
Friday, January 28, 2011

September 30, 1953: You won't know for sure until you count them

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This strip marks the beginning of one of Schulz's longer-running jokes in the days of early Peanuts: Lucy counting the number of stars...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sunday, July 5, 1953: First use of "real" extras

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We've seen one-use animals other than Snoopy before (a dog and two birds), and we had one strip in which we saw other kids from a dist...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

June 30, 1953: Linus' first steps

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Linked for notability. When Rerun joins the cast much later, in a way it's almost like these early strips with Linus return. Rerun ...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Sunday, April 26, 1953: Lucy's skill at golf, and Peanuts' 60th Anniversary

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These frames contain some of the more action-oriented Peanuts poses. Particularly frame 5. Later on the female characters' dresses s...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

April 4, 1953: Of interest to trivia quizzers

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Q: In the comic strip Peanuts, what is Violet's last name? [In case the img source for this comic goes dark later: it is Gray.] Ch...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

February 19, 1953: Lucy works on her psychoanalysis degree

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Lucy provides a dismissive, yet possibly accurate, diagnosis of a character from literature. It's the first time Lucy does something ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Sunday, February 15, 1953: Linus is scornful

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This is the second strip in which Lucy demonstrates her great capacity for malice, after the "Don't murder me Charlie Brown"...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Valentine's Day, 1953: The First Time Charlie Brown Got No Valentines

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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...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Sunday, November 23, 1952: CTHULHU RISES

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Blogger sometimes takes posts I've set to publish and makes them drafts instead, which once in a while results in strips getting overloo...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

December 3, 1952: WISHY-WASHY

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This is the first time the term "wishy-washy" has been used in Peanuts, and the first time it is used to describe Charlie Brown....
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sunday, November 16, 1952: THE FOOTBALL

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It's the first of the (eventually) yearly strips where Lucy holds the football and Charlie Brown, for whatever reason, fails to kick i...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

November 7, 1952: Fussbudget

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This is the first time the word "fussbudget" has been used in the strip. Now this word is almost impossible to separate from Pe...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sunday, October 19, 1952: Snoopy dance!

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It's Snoopy's first time doing the "Happiness" dance, here with forelegs folded in a Russian style. It's also Snoop...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

September 19, 1952: Linus' first strip

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And here's Linus. This puts the breaks on the introduction of new characters for a little while I think. So far that makes, in order...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

September 8, 1952: God of the moving image

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(For some reason this one didn't go up when it was scheduled....) We've seen plenty of radios in prior strips, but this is the f...
Friday, March 12, 2010

July 8, 1952: HE SPEAKS

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Schroeder utters complete sentences! Also, he can somehow whistle chords!
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

June 19, 1952: They grow up so fast

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A momentous strip: Lucy has lost her eye-circles then facing forward! And she's talking just like everyone else! And she isn't r...
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