In this collection of touching and funny Charles Schulz strips from 1968 and 1969, disaster strikes when the little red-haired girl comes to the ball park and makes Charlie Brown so nervous he cant pitch and has to go home--and Charlie Brown finds out he was NOT Snoopys original owner. Snoopy is a used pet! Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulzs death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.