Presents For Children"s Day—On sale!
Charles M.Schulz was born in 1922 in Minneapolis, the only child of a housewife and a barber. His interest in comics was encouraged by his father, who loved the funny pages. Charles M.Schulz sold seventeen cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post from 1948 to 1950 and Li"l Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950, and ran without interruption for the next fifty years. Charles M. Schulz died in 2000.

When did Peanuts first appear in public