November 1 This strip reminds me of later strips in which characters try to figure out what to do with jack-o-lanterns after Halloween. ...

Strip in question: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1953/11/02 This is a gag that Schulz will return to in later years, the character who i...

This is more of a general comic strip joke than a specifically Peanuts joke. A kid does something based on ignorance that turns out badly...

I love this one. The Lucy Loophole: When considering how useful a specific thing is for a purpose, do not forget how useful it is as a ...

If you wonder where the point was that Lucy went from being an innocent little girl to Cthulhu in a dress, well, there is no exact point. ...

Schulz is still learning to write effectively. Panels six and seven are kind of drawn out, with the characters merely intensifying how mu...

Early Peanuts has a number of day-after-holiday strips. One of my favorites, still to come, is a day after April 1 strip.

Remarkably cocky of Patty here, but then maybe she knows her opponents. Scribble of ire!

Compared to other comics, Peanuts characters are unusually poker-faced. The only hint of the kid's slow burn leading up to the last p...

Lucy's fearsomeness is not yet firmly established, so this strip was probably intended more being a general strip about kids instead o...

It's that profile doorstep scene that would play a role in so many later strips. I don't think this is its first appearance though....

This is a predecessor of Schroeder's "X days until Beethoven's birthday" gag. It's also another reference to a real-w...