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Charles Schulz was a stickler about language in his strip. But all of that does not mean that he didn’t make mistakes. For example, look carefully at the first sentence on the original art for a panel for the August 15, 1960 strip. 1/9
Schulz missed that... not typo, I guess writo. Apparently the folks at the syndicate did as well. The stats of that panel went out, and the error appeared in various newspapers. 2/
But it seems likely the syndicate caught the error after the stats had shipped out and sent a note asking papers to correct it. On some of them, the removal was smoothly done. 3/
Other edits were more clumsy, either leaving bits of the offending letters, or wiping other stuff out as well. Or both. 4/
But that’s what happened on the day of release. When it came to reprinting the strip for posterity, a better correction was made, as seen in this shot from Peanuts Parade #10: What Makes Musicians So Sarcastic? 5/
So final victory, yes? No. At some point, the Peanuts folks made a digital database of strips, creating source material that their licensors could access. And they used original stats where they could... as this online archive shows. 6/ https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1960/08/15
And checking out my hardcover edition of The Complete Peanuts volume 5: 1959-1960, I find this. 7/
And if that imperfection of Peanuts in this permanent reference edition was all, it would’ve been a minor thing. But it almost got much worse.
Here's the tentative cover that a Complete Peanuts paperback was solicited with... and (phew!) the actual released cover. 8/
Here's the tentative cover that a Complete Peanuts paperback was solicited with... and (phew!) the actual released cover. 8/
The moral? I suppose you can never really erase your mistakes, they may still come back to haunt you.
My apologies to my followers who already saw this story via the link to my blog... but if you haven't seen my Peanuts book blog, maybe you should! 9/9 http://blog.AAUGH.com
My apologies to my followers who already saw this story via the link to my blog... but if you haven't seen my Peanuts book blog, maybe you should! 9/9 http://blog.AAUGH.com
