Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 26, 2023

And it’s not for another month, Pig-Pen.

The strip is dated “11-14” in the last panel (the date it was originally published?), which makes this make more sense.

He’s tying to catch up.

Was it a two-week vacation? It’s Monday, 14 November 1955!

I guess “tricks or treats” is the original phrase, but when I was growing up in the 60s, we never added the “s”. Plus we slurred it to be: “Tricker-Treat”!

your early.

Like your costume Pig Pen! Oh wait!

Not sure it’s a trick or treat. Looks more like a homeless child asking for food.

I like Pig-Pen in his ghost costume with dust flying everywhere. “How did you know it was me?”

Not that it really matters, but I wonder when it became singular?

Everyone now says TRICK or TREAT , not Tricks or Treats.

Skipped Sunday strip from November 13, 1955:

https://www.gocomics.Com/peanuts/1955/11/13

Halloween fell on a Sunday once back in the Fifties and my little brother and I missed it because we were in church. We went out the next night and some folks had leftover candy and gave it to us. Halloween candy back then was mostly the penny candy stuff and it wasn’t very good. But I guess we didn’t know any better.

It’s almost October, so close enough