Little Orphan Annie is in trouble again in these two sequences taken from the early years of her long-running comic strip. In the first story, our curly-haired heroine overhears news of the impending arrival of Mrs. Warbucks with her young protégé, snobby Selby Adelbert Piffleberry — known to Annie as “S.A.P.” The inimitable Count de Tour soon follows, and things begin to get sticky for “Daddy” Warbucks. It seems the two houseguests are out to destroy the Warbucks financial empire. In the second story, Annie and her dog Sandy are looking for a new home while “Daddy” Warbucks is away for a year. In Cosmic City, almost everyone is a tight-fisted, orphan-hating meanie, but poor, good-hearted Mr. and Mrs. Futile take Annie and Sandy in. When moneybags Phineas P. Pinchpenny decides to foreclose the mortgage on the Futile home, Annie begins to fight back. Needless to say, in both stories, the good guys are triumphant but — leapin’ lizards! — you know that. These strips first appeared in The Chicago Tribune (and elsewhere) in 1925 and 1932.

Little Orphan Annie and Little Orphan Annie in Cosmic City

Children's Books

Gray, Harold

Literature & Fiction

Dover Publications

Daddy Warbucks' financial empire is destroyed in the Depression and Annie has to fend for herself as he tries to rebuild his fortune

Little Orphan Annie in the Great Depression

Dover Pubns

Annie and her dog, Sandy, look for a new home and are taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Futile

Little Orphan Annie in Cosmic City

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

This large volume has much of the background and comic art that made the series had dealt with Depression under which Daddy Warbucks was wealthy and Annie survived with her dog Sandy.

Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945

Arlington House/Publishers

Read the best of Little Joe, from the creator of Little Orphan Annie, who took over this Western comic strip! With the untimely death of his cousin and fellow cartoonist, Ed Leffingwell, Harold Gray took the reins of this seminal Western comic strip. He created a combination of dark adventure, as seen in his Little Orphan Annie, and a modern-West version of "family life" comics like Gasoline Alley. This book presents the best of the Little Joe comic strip from 1937 to 1942, with violence, humor and warmth in a low-key style that could only be told in art and story by a master, Harold Gray. Sunday Press Books is a specialty publishing house best known for its restoration of classic American comic strips, reprinted as gorgeous hardcover editions in the original size and colors. The brainchild of Peter Maresca, Sunday Press has rekindled our collective fascination with such beloved features as Little Nemo in Slumberland, Krazy Kat, Thimble Theatre, and more. These collections have received dozens of salutations and awards, including a stream of seventeen Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominations for thirteen years running.

Ed Leffingwell's Little Joe: The Sunday Comics by Harold Gray

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books

Little Orphan Annie and the Gila Monster Gang

Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

Little Orphan Annie In The Circus

Kessinger Publishing

When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Based on the classic comic strip by Harold Gray.

Teen & Young Adult

Brownstone Books

Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 3

Contemporary

Fantagraphics Books

1934 - in these episodes, Daddy Warbucks is victimized not only by fickle financial evolutions but also by craven politicians. Gray lays it on pretty heavy: his politicos are not only self-serving, they are in partnership with organized crime. But revenge, when it comes, is sweet: Warbucks is vindicated on every side. However, he is still pauper. Once, again, Harold Gray must arrange for his hero to wrest a fortune from a hostile world.

Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 4, 1934

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