October 18, 1952: Is that a blanket?

Is that a blanket that Linus is sitting on?

October 17, 1952: More comics

Some of the titles on the comics have violent names, like they did in the drugstore strip from some months back. Some of the titles are: "Zipp!" "Kill" "Wow!" "Smash" "Hate" "Killer Comix" "Slaughter" "War" "Ha! Ha!"

October 16, 1952: Watch what you say around Lucy

Lucy still tends to take things literally.

October 14 and 15, 1952: Patty and Violet's Party

I mostly remember Patty and Violet for the times they double-teamed Charlie Brown in the classic age of the strip. If one interprets Charlie Brown as a stand-in for Charles Schulz himself, a view that may have some merit, that may indicate problems with female figures. I think it is possible to read too much into this, however; mostly it just serves to develop Charlie Brown's pessimistic personality a little more.

Also: rats!

October 13, 1952: Snoopy the Musician

This is one of the first strips in which a character actually shouts at another one, in larger letters. We've yet to see our first AUGH, though.

Sunday, October 12, 1952: Snoopy the Pointer

This duck features in another strip in a few months.

Interestingly, Snoopy is the character with the most expressive body language. There are not a lot of poses for the child figures in Peanuts, partly due to their distorted construction. Snoopy, maybe because he's a little more realistically depicted than the others, can adopt more poses.

October 11, 1952: Charlie Brown Hates Coconut

A little fact for trivia: Charlie Brown hates coconut. (Actually this has been mentioned before, in a strip in which Patty pretty uses the same logic against Charlie Brown.)

October 9, 1952: Paper Chase

I'm not sure if this strip should have ended on the second panel or as it's written. I think the real joke is in panel two; extending it further is just explaining the punchline.

October 8, 1952: Sick and Tired of Always Being the Bassoon

Another strip in which a character reacts to something undepicted that's just happened off-camera. Fairly funny I guess.

October 6, 1952: Lucy's Happy Dance

Lucy's developing her egotism nicely I see. I don't really get how CB can take solace in the fact he came in second. I assume Schroeder is peeved in the last panel because he knows coming in last is the true measure of ability.