Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 27, 2021

You had to ask and criticize, Charlie Brown.

Charlie Brown is a Scare- ty Cat!

Lucy probably read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.

Good one, Lucy.

Sure you, can, Charlie. Just ask the Headless Horsemen and The Green Goblin.

Maybe that’s why CB always drops fly balls while playing baseball.

Let’s see, October 30, 1953. Disney released The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad October 5, 1949, (Washington DC premier) so that’s already four years old when this runs. And the second half of the Disney film’s basis is first published March 15, 1820, along with fellow The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. short stories John Bull and The Pride of the Village. Over a hunred thirty-three years before this strip. Given the way Schulz ages the kids, Lucy may be four at this point (and her birthday is in March). May not have seen The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad when it first came out, but I suppose maybe some theaters had copies to show. And certainly possible her folks or day care/nursery school teacher had read her The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Scared me!

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With Lucy around, you don’t need the Headless Horseman.

Smart :D

Lucy using psychology here; very interesting considering her psychiatric business later. She nails him!

Lucy is the greatest