Snoopy Celebrates 70 years of Missing That Football! 

Good Grief! Could it be? Our favorite comic-strip blockhead Charlie Brown celebrated his 70th birthday this week with a new TV show and a philanthropic push that includes donating “Peanuts” murals for kids to paint in 70 children’s hospitals around the globe. The comic strip made its debut 70 years ago, on Oct. 2, 1950. […]

Comic Strip Toys

All sorts of toys have been made to resemble famous comic characters such as the Yellow Kid, Maggie and Jiggs, or Snoopy. Each toy usually dates from the time of the strip or cartoon, but many revivals occur, and during the 1980s there was new interest in Mickey Mouse, Popeye, Orphan Annie, Betty Boop, Flash […]