The popular cartoon strip Peanuts, which was
written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, was first published on the 2nd of
October 1950.
Peanuts began as a daily strip, running in nine
newspapers: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune,
The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post, The
Seattle Times, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.
The first strip was four panels long and
featured Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy was also amongst the early
characters in the strip, first appearing in the third edition, which ran on
October 4.
Peanuts is the most popular and influential in
the history of the comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all. At its
peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in
75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.
It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip
as the standard in the United States and together with its merchandise earned
Schulz more than $1 billion. Peanuts ran until February 13, 2000, although reprints of the strip are still
syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.
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