# 5 Funniest ‘Peanuts’ Comics About Snoopy’s Forgotten Siblings

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/5-funniest-peanuts-comics-about-snoopys-forgotten-siblings/
- Published: 2026-10-28T08:00:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T05:51:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/snoopy-siblings-peanuts/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Snoopy had seven siblings, most rarely seen in Peanuts.
- Some were based on dogs Charles Schulz owned.
- Their brief appearances brought unusual comic moments.

## Summary

The article revisits Snoopy’s largely overlooked brothers and sisters, whose occasional appearances added eccentric variations on the familiar beagle. Their stories matter as a small but revealing part of how Charles Schulz expanded Peanuts over time, often drawing on dogs he had owned.

Snoopy had seven siblings, including Spike, the most prominent, as well as Marbles, Olaf, Andy, Belle, Molly and Rover. The article highlights strips in which Marbles is baffled by Snoopy’s Flying Ace fantasy, Olaf writes to his mother about a fox hunt, and Andy visits Snoopy in hospital with Spike and Olaf. Several siblings appeared only briefly, and Molly and Rover featured only in a 1991 animated special.

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