Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 05, 2015

wow! they’re showing this in full color! I’m impressed!

The first ever Peanuts strip from October 1950!

I’m all in! See you here everyday friends.

Good deal!

Good grief! This really takes me back!

Until Fantagraphics began publishing their Complete Peanuts volumes in 2004, most of the strips from the 1950s had never been reprinted. Previous collections were essentially from the 60s on, as Schulz—ever the perfectionist—thought the early Peanuts didn’t reflect his “best work.”

One of my paperbacks was first published in 1958 but I didnt have this strip until the Treasuries came out.

Can I add Peanuts Begins to my favorites?

COOLCOOLCOOL!!!

Peanuts is the top of my queue.This will be the second comic in my queue.

This is going to be a lot of fun! I love reviewing these. Snoopy is so adorable in his puppy phase!

Early Peanuts was so much better than later!

Yay!! This is one of my favorite strips and his early style was so cute… this will be lots of fun! _

I can’t wait to relive the lives of the peanuts!!

I was around; of course, I wasn’t reading the comics… yet!

I hope it runs longer than “The Wizard of Id Classics”…

I have started collecting the Peanuts collections from the very beginning. I’m still missing a few volumes but they will end with the 2000 strips. I may pull out those books to read them again.

How cool is this? In color, yet!

Hey, this is great. I knew GoComics had archived the originals. I wonder if GoComics is going to follow this in order for the next forty years. Imma gonna need more popcorn.

And here is how it all began

According to the comments, which obviously aren’t 65 years old, the first strip here, Good Old Charlie Brown was three years old here, and turned 4 years old October 30, 1950.

I wonder if October 30 was supposed to be Charlie Brown’s bitlrthday, or if it just happened that way? And if the others’ borthdays were ever revealed.

Love it. I’ll definitely be reading and enjoying …

Now this’ll be a treat! I’ve never had the chance to read the whole shiskabob from the beginning like this before.

It begins!

Why? What did he ever do to you?

I remember reading what must have been the first Peanuts paperback over and over and over as a child.

These colors are completely arbitrary, and only recently added. Schulz had nothing to do with them. The daily strip never appeared in color. Only the Sundays were in color, and at this stage there wasn’t a Sunday. That came in the second year.

oh wow, how cool is this.

Great to see the earliest Peanuts strips, which I think in some ways were the best. How many people know that Charlie Brown used to babysit Lucy? Or that the girls used to like Charlie Brown (sorta)? Or that Snoopy used to act like a dog, albeit a clever one? Or that Shermy, Patty and Violet used to be prime characters? This is going to be fun, whether it’s in color or not.

I’m not sure about the orange apocalyptic sky…

I Remember when I started reading the peanuts strip around 1955, and have been reading it ever since.

A rather dark beginning to Peanuts! But I’m happy to see these old ones. I am hoping they bring back Pogo!

Still reduced size, though. Can’t we at least print these full size?

My CB handle was WOODSTOCK :) I had all the paperback collections

WOW! This will be fun to follow! Charlie Brown-haters right from the get-go? (Wonder if that’s an early “Shermy”?)

Why? Why is the color important? The strip wasn’t drawn in color. It wasn’t intended for color. It didn’t run in color when it was new. So why should we care about someone else’s retro-fitted color that the creator never approved, nor even saw?

This brings back great memories!And I do prefer the black and white, but will still enjoy these nonetheless. It seems that today’s generation lack imagination. I love black and white TV too. I am always disappointed when a movie is colourized and not what I imagined it to be. And if it was done in black and white, the artist intended it that way.

Great to see these strips from the beginning, however, purist that I am, I would prefer to see them as originally published without the color.

Added to my favorites. Woo hoo!

There are new Peanuts comic books out, they have been out for a few years. My brother, Justin Thompson, who writes and draws the Mythtickle comic strip on here, works for Charles Shultz museum and re formats and colors some of the old strips to fit into comic book form. They are awesome, they take me right back to my childhood. My brother, being the great guy that he is, sends me new issues every few months. If ya all like peanuts, you should check em out. ;:^)

Peanuts from about 1960 thru the ‘70s were at peak and even edgy sometimes. Looking forward to these ones from the 50’s as I missed them. Still have a few I cut out from the ’60’s newspapers before Schultz tamed the productions.

Only Charlie Brown, Shermy, and Patty [not the “Peppermint” one] made their debuts on “Day 1.”

I cannot describe how delighted I am to see this. I learned to read with the first Peanuts book in the 50s. Thank you GoComics!

Thank you, GoComics, for bringing us early Peanuts comics in full colour – it looks fantastic! This strip is the first of almost 50 years worth, originally published 2nd October 1950.

wait how can he be good ol’ if u hate him lol

I am more of a purist. Since the strips were originally printed in black and white, I’d rather see them reprinted here also in black and white. Anyone who doesn’t want to read them if they’re not in colour, doesn’t deserve to enjoy them at all.

now THATS a good start to peanuts

I have a book called “Celebrating Peanuts” and it has everything, decade by decade. (Thanks, Santa)

This same strip from the original Peanuts, shows up about once EVERY WEEK! Why???.

Although some might disagree about this, I’m happy that Peanuts Begins resurrected every strip and put them in color for the first time.

1st Peanuts comic ever.