![]() ![]() The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold, sarcastic matron, named Miss Asthma. In Annie's first year, the picaresque pattern that will characterize her story is set, with the major players – Annie, Sandy, and "Daddy" Warbucks – introduced within the strip's first several weeks. ![]() Little Orphan Annie displays literary kinship with the picaresque novel in its seemingly endless string of episodic and unrelated adventures in the life of a character who wanders like a vagabond innocent through a corrupt world. 5 Parodies, imitations and cultural citations.3.2 World War II and Annie's Junior Commandos.The strip's popularity declined over the years it was running in only 20 newspapers when it was cancelled on June 13, 2010. Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 (which was separately adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1982). ![]() The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and Communism.įollowing Gray's death in 1968, several artists drew the strip and, for a time, "classic" strips were rerun. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy, and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. It ranked number one in popularity in a Fortune poll in 1937. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on Augin the New York Daily News. ![]() Tiny, shallow worm hole at the outer edge of pages 143-153.Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray (1894–1968) and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The illustration opposite page 74 has been colored in with watercolor.the pages are otherwise clean with no other condition issues found. is present but detached, and the top edge has torn off. The top-right corner of the front cover is worn. Condition: Soiling/staining to the front cover the spine has a stain at the left edge small, light stain at the top-right corner of the back cover the left and right edges of the bottom of the spine have chipped off. The book is a reprint of the daily comic strip that appeared in the New York Daily News newspaper from Octoto August 31, 1932. This title has the distinction of being the second Big Little Book ever published. 1933 1st edition, 2nd printing (with 1928 copyright date and 3-title ad at the back of the book) Whitman Publishing Company Racine, Wisconsin. This is a scarce "Big Little Book" copy of "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE" by Harold Gray. ![]()
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