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About Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 1
Product Description Volume One of The Complete Little Orphan Annie contains more than 1,000 daily comics in nine complete stories, from the very first strip in August 1924 through October 1927. In the pages of "Will Tomorrow Ever Come?" readers will discover how Annie escapes the orphanage and is ultimately adopted by "Daddy;" how she finds that loveable mutt Sandy and rescues him from being tortured; how she meets the Silos, who become recurring characters throughout the series; how she joins the circus and first encounters Pee Wee the elephant; and how, broke and alone, she hits the road on a succession of dangerous yet spiritually uplifting adventures. This volume also includes an index, and a biographical essay by Jeet Heer. -The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. From Booklist The fact that Little Orphan Annie remains a recognizable pop-culture figure is due more to the frequently revived Broadway musical than its comic-strip progenitor, which began in 1924 and continues, albeit in a moribund state, to this day. In its heyday, the strip’s spunky redheaded heroine, plucked from a Dickensian orphanage by kindly millionaire Daddy Warbucks, proved irresistible to mainstream America. The initial three years of daily episodes collected here have a mostly humorous tone. In subsequent decades, Gray would lead the cast on darker adventures that were vehicles for his conservative, pro-business politics. Like many early-twentieth-century strips, Annie was at first primitively drawn. Unlike most of his peers, Gray never totally shed that initial crudeness, which, in tandem with his equally rough politics, guaranteed the bluntness that gave Annie much of its distinctive charm. Gray had the foresight to hold on to nearly all his original drawings, so that they were available for this attractively designed volume that includes an invaluable biographical essay by comics scholar Jeet Heer. --Gordon Flagg About the Author Harold Gray was born in 1894 in Kankakee, Illinois, and debuted Little Orphan Annie on August 5, 1924 and continued to write and draw the comic strip for forty-four years, until his death in 1968.
