Patty appeared in the very first "Peanuts" comic strip, on October the 2nd, 1950, and, at first, she was a major character. But then she slowly slipped away, and few people even noticed.
She was first seen as part of another Charles M. Schultz comic strip, called "Li`l Folks", but she was unnamed. She then appeared in "Peanuts" in the first ever strip of October the 2nd, 1950 - but was only named as Patty on October the 26th, 1950.
Yet, in the mid 1960s, she had fallen so far from being featured that when Patricia Reichardt came along, and joined the gang, she was known as "Peppermint Patty". After that, everyone seems to have joined the two together, so much so that today, if anyone sees her, they think she is "Peppermint Patty", but she is not, she is a character all her own. And some people even believe she may have been the little red haired girl that Charlie Brown secretly loved, without ever being brave enough to admit it, let alone do anything about it.
This card was issued in 2024, as a set of twelve, and a lot of people identify it as being by Topps, though it is only branded on the cards as Super 7. After a lot of digging I found them on sale through Super 7, which is a collectables company in California. And it turns out that the cards come in wax packs, each containing five black and white cards, like ours, and a colour sticker. The twelve black and white cards can be found with a red border or a yellow one (but the central picture is the same - so technically that makes it a complete set of twenty-four), and the twelve colour sticker cards have backs that, when fitted together, make the very first colour comic strip from January 1952.
The black and white cards are :
- Baseball Charlie Brown (vertical)
- Charlie Brown (vertical)
- Linus (vertical)
- Lucy (horizontal)
- Patty (vertical)
- Pig Pen (horizontal)
- Sally (horizontal)
- Schroeder (horizontal)
- Shermy (vertical)
- Snoopy (vertical)
- Snoopy & Charlie Brown (horizontal)
- Violet (horizontal)
The colour stickers are a bit more elusive, but will be added as I find them :
- Charlie Brown - "Lets Play a Game"