Peanuts comic strip art is always widely sought-after, but strips this early rarely come up for public sale. Coming just weeks after the debut of strip, this November 17 entry also points to some forgotten Peanuts history: Shermy was one of the primary Peanuts characters at the outset of the strip, and it was even implied that Snoopy was Shermy’s dog early on. But Shermy faded into relative obscurity in the strip after the early 1950s.