Rare surviving episodes from Sunday Comics sections, featuring episodes of Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Only some images were selected. This lot contains more then 300 episodes from the period 1952-1970 (37 x 27 cm) The pages are in good condition, although wrinkles, tears, flaking and missing pieces may occur. The post-its that are visible in the photos were used to separate the years and can easily be removed. - Peanuts (briefly subtitled featuring "Good ol' Charlie Brown") is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip originally ran from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is regarded as one of the most popular and influential comic strips in history, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of roughly 355 million across 75 countries, and had been translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States,[5] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Following successful animated television and stage-theatrical adaptations over the years, five animated theatrical films have been released. Peanuts focuses on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He cannot fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy Van Pelt, who always pulls it away at the last instant. Peanuts is a literary strip with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones, which was innovative in the 1950s. Its humor is psychologically complex and driven by the characters' interactions and relationships. Schulz drew every strip, through nearly 50 years, with no assistants, including the lettering and coloring process Will be shipped with track&trace. #specialcollectionservice