1940s in comics appears in "All Winners Comics" #19, published by Timely Comics. "Sazae-san", by Machiko Hasegawa debuts in Fukunichi Shimbun. "Li'l Folks", the first comic strip by "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, debuts mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", on June 22. "Li'l Folks" can almost be regarded as an embryonic version of "Peanuts", containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young man with a fondness for Beethoven a la Schroeder, a dog with a striking resemblance to Snoopy, and even a boy named Charlie Brown. The Association of Comics Magazine
Schroeder (Peanuts) she runs away screaming, while Schroeder calls for her to come back. Schroeder once offered to kiss Lucy during a baseball game if she hit a home run (he was confident that would never happen as Lucy had never hit the ball out of the infield). This gave Lucy incentive and she managed to hit a home run on her very next at-bat. Schroeder waited for her at home plate, reluctantly prepared to kiss her, but Lucy turned it down, not wanting him to kiss her only because he lost a bet. For the most part, Schroeder and Charlie Brown