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Classic Snoopy Phone ...
Highly-collectable novelty telephone
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Snoopy has become a 20th century icon, being one of the
main and original characters in Charles M. Schulz comic
strip "Peanuts", which ran from 1950 through to Shultz's
retirement in 1999. The official Snoopy website describes
Snoopy as "an extroverted beagle with a Walter Mitty
complex". He is a virtuoso at every endeavor - at least
in his daydreams atop his doghouse. The Peanuts characters
may have lived in a state of perpetual childhood but their
struggles and their angst were recognisable to adults all
over the world, who posted Peanuts cartoons in offices and
homes as short parables of modern life in the latter half
of the 20th Century. Owing to this iconic status, Peanuts
memorabilia is becoming increasingly collectable. Our Snoopy
telephones are packaged as new in original packaging and
come with a one year guarantee. |
The official
Snoopy website describes Snoopy as "an extroverted
beagle with a Walter Mitty complex". He is a virtuoso at
every endeavor - at least in his daydreams atop his doghouse.
He regards his master, Charlie Brown, as "that round-headed
kid" who brings him his supper dish. it is estimated the
newspaper comic strip at its peak had 350 million daily
readers. Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and others may have lived in
a state of perpetual childhood but their struggles and their
angst were recognisable to adults all over the world, who
posted Peanuts cartoons in offices and homes as short parables
of modern life. Charlie Brown, the great American loser,
typically responds to the trials life sends him with a despondent
“good grief”. Because of legal issues surrounding the originally
intended name "L'il Folks" ("Little Folks" already existed),
the strip was renamed "PEANUTS." For nearly 50 years Charles
Schulz drew each installment himself, in contrast to most
comic strip writers, who delegated much of their work to
assistants. Under the terms of Mr Schulz’s contract, no
other artist was allowed to take on the strip after his
death in 2000.
- 1950: Peanuts begins a daily newspaper
comic strip - four original characters; Charlie Brown, Snoopy,
Shermy and Patty.
- 1952: Lucy and Linus are added to the
comic strip.
- 1959: Sally joins the cast.
- 1965: "A Charlie
Brown Christmas" has its first showing. 1967: "You're a
Good Man, Charlie Brown" opens on Broadway.
- 1968: Franklin
integrates the strip.
- 1968: Apollo 10 astronauts nickname
their command module "Charlie Brown" and lunar module "Snoopy."
- 1970: Woodstock joins the cast. 1984: "Peanuts" sold to
its 2,000th newspaper.
- 1990: The Louvre features the "Snoopy
in Fashion" exhibit.
- 1996: Charles M. Schulz gets a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1999: Schulz announces his
retirement.
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