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<\/a><\/p>\nAs part of their line celebrating Peanuts 75th anniversary, they are offering a limited-edition “first comic strip appearance dual bobblehead” featuring the February 28, 1970 strip.<\/p>\n
Now, tracking Woodstock’s appearances strictly from the strip has some difficulty. After all, the character was clearly around for a while before being granted a name in the June 22, 1970 strip, and perhaps any birds you saw before then were similarly-situated, similar-looking, but not Woodstock himself. For a long time, official sources listed his first appearance as April 4, 1967. But I and some others found that date in error — while the bird in question was likely Woodstock, he seemed to be a returning character. In my book The Snoopy Treasures<\/em>, I started pushing that Woodstock was one of the two birds who hatched on Snoopy’s stomach on March 4th, 1966. Other key folks seemed to agree with me… and then Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark pointed me to a 1980\u00a0TV Guide <\/em>piece<\/a> where Schulz said that Woodstock was indeed one of those two birds. Absolute confirmation. And that as Woodstock’s origin is now reflected on the character,’s Wikipedia page, in new storybooks, and in various other sources.<\/p>\n And then this claim of “first comic strip appearance” shows up. February 28, 1970? It’s not even their first appearance sitting together on top of the dog house as head beagle and secretary (here is that,<\/a>\u00a0from eight days earlier.) And it’s frustrating to me to have done work trying to set the record straight, and then have this inexplicable wrong date, wrong strip foisted off on. product. I don’t know why the bobblehead people thought this was right, where they might have gotten this information from.<\/p>\n