In August , Spike was to be Snoopy's best man at his wedding, only to end up eloping with Snoopy's fiancee and then being dumped himself for a coyote. Snoopy, of course, comes to realize that the claim was false, after Spike admitted that his "friend", a cactus, had told him the rumor.
On February 15, , Spike attempts to bury his fedora in a time capsule for a future civilization to study "Do not open until ! Another story arc from the 80s featured Spike as the hero; Charlie Brown's baseball team is at loggerheads when the owner of the vacant lot they play in was told to not allow them to use the field anymore due to possible liabilities.
Spike pulls off a real estate coup in which the coyotes still living in Needles bought the vacant lot so the kids can once again play. Spike was used in on-off appearances sporadically through the rest of Peanuts history but he was main between the years of Another storyline was in , when he and his brothers Olaf and Andy visit Snoopy in the hospital.
They leave shortly after Snoopy gets well. Beginning in a series of strips from May , Spike began joining Snoopy in his World War I escapades as an infantryman fighting in the trenches, the one change in Spike's appearance being that he wears a WWI-style army Brodie helmet instead of his trademark fedora. In a series when Spike comes down ill with influenza , Snoopy and Spike's mother Missy came over on a troopship to visit, wearing a fur hat the soldiers manning the rails of the troopship were also beagles.
This was her sole appearance in the strip. In Snoopy's Reunion , Spike is shown being taken away by a rich family with a limo , but for reasons unknown, he ended up living in a cactus in the desert possibly like what happened with Snoopy and like Lila they also lived in an apartment building but had to take Spike to the desert instead of Daisy Hill. Spike's last appearance in the comic strips was on December 21, , two months before the discontinuation of the strip. Andy and Olaf live together on a farm.
Andy is distinguished by his shaggy dog appearance, but otherwise looks like Snoopy. Olaf appears to be somewhat overweight. He does not bear much resemblance to Snoopy or his other siblings. He also wears a hunting cap. Olaf now has taken residence in the city of Orange and works as a maintenance manager in a department store.
Olaf also says his favorite book is still "Joe Bunny", which he has owned since puppy hood. Olaf is first seen during a series on January 19, , in which he visits Snoopy.
During this sequence, Lucy enters Olaf in an "ugly dog" contest, which he wins much to his disappointment. He is pretty chubby compared to Snoopy's other siblings. He appears again in beginning February 14 , where he, Andy, and Spike visit Snoopy, who is in the hospital. After Snoopy gets better, the three brothers leave without saying good-bye.
This is the first appearance of Andy in the strip. After that, Olaf and Andy are shown four times in They are sitting against a barn , contemplating what direction their lives should go in. They appear sporadically after that. Olaf usually plays the jug , and Andy has a full drum set, but is rather clumsy when carrying it and drops it from time to time. On June 6, , following the birth of Charlie Brown 's younger sister Sally , Snoopy remarks that he has no brothers or sisters, and is an "only dog.
Spike is often shown in the trenches as an infantry grunt and Belle appears as a Red Cross nurse for both brothers. In the strip from June 18, Snoopy's father is shown receiving a Father's Day card. He comments that "all eight of them signed it". The special shows that the puppies were musically gifted from birth, playing instruments in a band until they were sold off, in Snoopy's case to Lila. When she is forced to return Snoopy to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, Snoopy resumes playing music, albeit by himself, until he is bought by Charlie Brown.
The special ends with all eight siblings playing in a band. Peanuts Wiki Explore. April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips August comic strips April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips. The Musical TV special. World of Peanuts. He first appeared in the strip from August 13, and has appeared in Peanuts more frequently than any other of Snoopy's siblings. Spike has whiskers which look like a mustache and always wears a hat. In the Sunday strip from October 13, , he is given Mickey Mouse's shoes and often wears them in later strips.
He is very skinny in appearance. Spike is first mentioned on August 4, , when he sends Snoopy a letter saying that he is coming to visit. He is first shown on August 13, and everybody is shocked to see how skinny he is, due to the fact that the coyotes he lives with, don't share any food with him. Originally, he lived with coyotes, but they mistreated Spike, so he moved out, and moved somewhere close to the city of Needles, California, where he lives by himself, with a cactus for company.
However, he sometimes leaves Needles to visit Snoopy. At first, Spike was a minor character, but as time passed, Spike started appearing more frequently. By the s, Spike had arguably become a major character. In a series of strips from , desperate for a dog of his own, Rerun van Pelt invites Spike to become his pet. After a lengthy trek, Spike arrives at Rerun's home. He does not stay, as Rerun is surprised by how skinny Spike is. Spike makes a cameo in the credits of The Peanuts Movie , sitting at a table in France with Snoopy, Fifi , and his other siblings.
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