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Peanuts Daily, 15 Feb 1972

Artist: Charles Schulz (All)

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Title:	Peanuts Daily, 15 Feb 1972
Artist:	Charles Schulz (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	885
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Added to Site:	5/29/2006
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This has always been one of my favorite Snoopy strips. I cannot believe that I was ever lucky enough to find and buy the original.
[26 Dec 2021 - The Ones that went away, Pt. 1. Yesterday, I received the book, Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, for Christmas. It is illustrated with material now in the Schultz Museum. Although, to my knowledge, I was not personally involved in the Museum's aquisition of a daily which I used to own, the very first Peanuts daily that I ever bought is illustrated. In about 1974, Jerry Muller of Museum Graphics in Corona Del Mar, CA, put on a traveling exhibit of comic strip and book art at, among other venues, Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA. Jerry had a number of original strips for sale in the museum store, including the daily for 18 June 1954. The subject matter was nuclear proliferation, on which I had written two term papers for college classes a cole of months earlier. The gag showed Patty and Charlie Brown with Lucy tied up to a plunger by a rope and exploding with a "Bwham" as part of an H-Bomb test. It is one of the few Peanuts strips with adult scale backgrounds It cost $90, which I paid in installments. Not very funny, but not very expensive compared to what Schulz's prices would soon become. It was one of my Peanuts originals which I sold when I found better examples.

My next original also came from Muller. I found it at the San Diego con in Aug 1978. What I found was actually a strip from 1952 which I had long known from the second Holt Reinhardt Peanuts volume, More Peanuts. I didn't buy it at the con, but asked my friend, Howard Lowery order it from Muller a week later for $100. When I picked up the original, the strip I got was not the one I had seen on Muller's table in San Diego. The one I had known had Lucy asking Charlie Brown to make a bread and "budder" sandwich for her. CB starts to cut the sandwich in half, but Lucy complains, saying they "lose all their flavor when cut." The one Muller sent to Howard as very similar, but he didn't have it in San Diego, and I had never seen tt before. In it, Lucy states that such sandwiches taste better just folded over. I didn't think it was as funny, and I couldn't believe that Schulz would draw two such similar originals. I was wrong. I found both on microfilm at U.C.L.A.'s Research Library the following. I asked Howard to tell Muller he sent the wrong strip. I considered Muller's response dishonest. He said he could get the one I wanted (and which he actually had in San Diego, but it would "cost more." Get real! I kept the one he had sent, but always resented his attempt to make a few more bucks. And I still had two originals from the most common period of Peanuts, even though they were early.

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