Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 22, 1952
Transcript:
Charlie Brown: I'm discouraged today, and when I get discouraged, A comic magazine is the only thing that will revive me. Charlie Brown: What a beautiful gory layout! Charlie Brown: This druggist is awfully fussy..He won't let you look at the comic magazines unless you by one... Charlie Brown: Gee, The cover came off this one...I hardly jerked it! Charlie Brown: Those on the top row look pretty good... Charlie Brown: WHOOPS! Charlie Brown: He should sell these for half price...Who wants a magazine after it's been laying around on the floor? Charlie Brown: I guess I'll take this one... Charlie Brown: Bot, did he ever glare at me! He probably isn't feeling well...
Brickster120 over 12 years ago
I like this one a lot.
Krendall over 12 years ago
I could easily see Calvin doing this.
yow4zip Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Charlie Brown really knows how to read a situation.
RoofDog over 11 years ago
For the Kiddies: Mangle, Terror, War, Hate, Gouge, Kill, ??, Murder, Ouch, Stab…
claud1961 about 11 years ago
In these early strips, Charlie acts and has some of the same expressions that Calvin will have decades later. Waterson must have been a fan…….
Robeykr almost 11 years ago
I remember this particular strip; it was in a PEANUTS collection book I once owned when I was Charlie Brown’s age.
Attila The Voice! over 10 years ago
A very interesting strip this one is!
comeonbanana over 9 years ago
for kids indeed
G00dgrief almost 9 years ago
I grew up with the Hodder & Stoughton collections from the early 70’s. This is one of the earliest strips I remember.
The #1 Big Nate over 7 years ago
Good’ Ol Charlie Brown
VICTOR PROULX almost 4 years ago
15 cent malt
Commenter8888 almost 3 years ago
what did you expect? him being happy?
FrostbiteFalls 8 months ago
This was a not-terribly exaggerated version of what you could expect to see on comics stands in the early 50s, before the notorious Senate hearings and the advent of the Comics Code Authority.
This is also the chronologically earliest strip that was published in the old Fawcett paperbacks.