Charlie Brown kicks Dennis The Menace's Ass and always will.

From Edge of The American West:

1968 in the Peanutsverse.

What's odd is I don't specifically remember the first Franklin strip, and certainly didn't register its topicality as a child (Vietnam should have jumped out at me, I would have thought), although our elementary schools were packed with Peanuts anthologies, so I certainly must have read it. And once I hit High School it was all Doonesbury and Bloom County, of course.

Still, well done, Chuck.