Peanuts Movie 2015:The Funniest Scenes

Everybody recognizes good ol' Charlie Brown and his faithful (if somewhat fanciful) dog, Snoopy, and most folks are familiar with key supporting players such as Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Schroeder. But Charles Schulz populated his kid-sized universe with dozens and dozens of characters over the course of half a century: Some continued to pop up irregularly over time, while others came and went in the space of a few months or years; still others came to life merely as foils for one or two specific occasions

What's surprising, though, is that no source -- not even the reference books published during key anniversary years -- had ever compiled a definitive, chronological cast of characters until 50 Years of Happiness came along. Perhaps the reason lies with the sheer enormity of the task, and the passage of so many years; because the strips are not dated in the many reprint books, it wasn't at all easy to determine the exact date of, say, Lucy's first appearance until the Fantagraphics Complete Peanuts series came along and made the task easier. Worse yet, since not all strips have been reprinted in this fashion, some important ones are not even in any books thus far released.

By way of example, Linus, Lucy and Pig-Pen all debuted in strips that -- prior to Fantagraphics -- hadn't been published since their first newspaper appearance. Let it not be said that we weren't up to the challenge. What follows is a list and description of every named character who ever appeared in the strip, along with the dates of their debut. It's important to distinguish between named and anonymous kids, because quite a few of the latter have appeared during summer camp sequences, school sequences and assorted baseball or football games not to mention the many poor souls who've answered their front door and found Linus bringing word of the Great Pumpkin.

 


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