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Peanuts stories in Comic Books
Begun, 1998. December 22nd, 2007 revision. Copyright 1998-2007 Nat Gertler & Dr Michael J. Vassallo.
The Peanuts comic strip began at a time when comic books (by which I mean magazines, not strip reprint books, which are covered on a different list)
were much more popular than they are today. It should come as little surprise, then, that the Peanuts characters became inhabitants of this popular medium.
The following guide to the Peanuts comic book appearances is based on Dr. Michael J. Vassallo's article in Comics Buyer's Guide issue 1254, which is now online here. His material is used here with his generous permission and addition of further information.
The Peanuts material in comic books can be broken into three categories:
- Newspaper reprints which simply reprint installments of the Peanuts strip from the daily paper (with color added to the daily strips). For a good list of which dates strips are reprinted, see this Peanuts Collector Club page.
- Original comic book stories are brand new tales of the Peanuts characters. While Schulz is purported to have drawn one of them and is suspected of a second, the creative chores on most of these were handled first by Jim Sasseville and then, for most of the run, by Dale Hale, two folks who worked out of Schulz's studio. The drawing style and characterization in these stories do not precisely match Schulz's.
Later stories appear to be drawn by someone else, and we're continuing to investigate to figure out who the artist
was; it was possibly someone hired by Dell rather than someone working at Schulz's studio.
- Comic book story reprints are simply reprintings of earlier original comic book stories.
Many of these comics have original Peanuts covers.
Runs not fully confirmed. Black text=confirmed Peanuts appearance. White text=no Peanuts. Gray text=not yet checked. |
Fritzi Ritz |
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39 |
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42 |
43 |
44 |
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48 |
49 |
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51 |
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55 |
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57 |
58 |
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Nancy and Sluggo |
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121 |
122 |
123 |
124 |
125 |
126 |
127 |
128 |
129 |
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132 |
133 |
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135 |
136 |
137 |
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139 |
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Sparkle Comics |
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27 |
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103 |
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105 |
106 |
107 |
108 |
109 |
110 |
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114 |
115 |
116 |
117 |
118 |
119 |
120 |
Tip Top |
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172 |
173 |
174 |
175 |
176 |
177 |
178 |
179 |
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182 |
183 |
184 |
185 |
186 |
187 |
188 |
189 |
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The following comic books have Peanuts material:
- Four Color (Cover title is Peanuts) issues 878, 969, 1015 (1958-1959; published by Dell) Original comic book stories
- Fritzi Ritz
- issues 27-28, 30-33 (1953-1954; published by United Feature) Newspaper Reprints
- issues 37-38, 43-47, 50 (1955-1957; published by St. John) Newspaper Reprints (apparently solely re-reprints of strips already reprinted in earlier United Feature comics; there may be Peanuts strips
in some issues not listed here.)
- issues 57-59 (1957-1958; published by Dell) Original comic book stories four-pagers
- Nancy issues 146-173 (1957-1959; published by Dell) Original comic book stories four-pagers
- Nancy and Sluggo
- Issue 142 (1957; published by St. John) Newspaper Reprints (further reprints may be in other issues)
- Issues 174-187 (1960-1962; published by Dell) Original comic book stories four-pagers
- issues 188-192 (1962-1963; published by Gold Key) Original comic book stories four-pagers
- Peanuts
- issue 1 (circa 1953, published by United Feature) Newspaper reprints
- issues 4-13 (1960-1962; published by Dell) Original comic book stories
- issues 1-4 (1963-1964; published by Gold Key) Comic book reprints (reprint Four Color 878, 969, 1015, and Dell's Peanuts 4, respectively, minus non-Peanuts material.)
- Sparkle Comics issue 33 (1954, published by United Feature) Newspaper reprints
- Sparkler Comics issues 115, 120 (1954-1955; published by United Feature; further issues are suspected) Newspaper reprints
- Tip Top
- issues 173, 184-188 (1952-1954; published by United Feature) Newspaper reprints
- issues 189-210 (1955-1957; published by St. John) Newspaper Reprints (apparently solely re-reprints of strips already reprinted in earlier United Feature comics.)
- issues 211-225 (1957-1961; published by Dell) Original comic book stories Mostly 8-pagers, occassionally with additional one-pagers
- Tip Topper issues 16-22, 24-28 (1952-1954; published by United Feature) Newspaper reprints
- United Comics issues 21-26 (1952; published by United Feature) Newspaper reprints
- Unseen Peanuts (2007; published by Fantagraphics) Newspaper reprints giveaway for Free Comic Book Day presenting strips that had not been reprinted until The Complete Peanuts book series.
If you're looking for these issues, it's hard to find a place that has them reliably in stock. However, the folks at Mile High Comics do have some books in stock at any time,
and you can register books that you want to purchase, so they can contact you when those books come into their inventory.
This following quick listing is what I (Nat) have in my collection... it's here so I can quickly check
what I need when I'm on the road. Ignore it.
- Four Color 969 (missing pages)
- Fritzi Ritz 28, 48, 57-59
- Nancy 146, 148, 150, 153-154, 157, 159, 164, 166-167, 172
- Nancy and Sluggo 175, 178, 180-181, 183-185, 187, 190-192
- Peanuts (Dell) 4, 6, 7, 8 (missing pages), 9, 11, 12, 13
- Peanuts (Gold Key) 2, 3
- Sparkler 115
- Tip Top 199, 205-206, 209, 211, 216, 217, 218 (missing pages), 220
- Tip Topper 17, 21
- United Comics 24, 26
- Unseen Peanuts
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