Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 09, 2016

Lol

July 6, 1952. Getting closer to Linus.

As if Patty and the others thought Charlie Brown was a master photographer.

That hot date better be with his wife…..

Hey, in those days, anybody who had a camera was a master!!

How long did “practical jokester” Charlie Brown last? It seems so far removed from how he ended up.

Notice something in the sixth panel? Snoopy shushed Lucy openly!

ROFL!

Snoopy’s so cute!

This strip pre-dates orange cats marriage to blue cat! (Honest!)

This is the comic strip that confirmed me that The Coasters wrote the song about this Charlie Brown, and not the one all we know.

I hope they don’t catch Charlie.

A simple pleasant memory.

It worked. He’s been young now for around sixty years.

He might not live to be older if he keeps pranking his friends like that

I really miss this prankster Charlie Brown. I’m starting to think that it was because he overdid it that people started to pick on him when he was older.

Orange Cat needs a name!

Ahh, this is the Earth-One Charlie Brown.the looser we all know is Charlie Brown of Earth-Two.

you can tell they are different because Earth-Two Charlie Brown wears the classic yellow striped shirt, while Earth-One wears red.

Also, I may be in the minority but I kind of prefer the CB we all know and love to this version. Mainly because I don’t see much about this CB that separates him from say Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the menace, or even Bart Simpson. At least by today’s standards. Any one can write the trouble making prankster ( heck, one of the greatest American writers, Huck Finn, pretty much perfected that trope with Tom Sawyer). Only Shultz could have mixed his comedy with pathos and given us a true tortured every man.

My fake toy camera at about this date squirted water. Worked better with only one victim.

Schroeder must’ve thought it was funny. He’s not running after Charlie Brown.

He’s a real tomcat. Monogamy is not what he does best.