Morning, Anniephans!I agree, letting a young girl explore the jungle all alone? Amelia isn’t paying much attention here. And how old is Annie anyway? I’ve never seen her drive a jeep or a car before.
@ssledge – Those two stories were run back to back here at GoComics back in 2004. The first one, “The Phantom Commando,” began on July 14, 2004 and the second one, “Broadcast Ranch,” ran from September 23, 2004 to January 27, 2005. They were two very great stories, with excellent artwork.
Hooray! It finally arrived: “The Complete Little Orphan Annie, volume nine: Saints and Cynics, Daily and Sunday Comics 1940-1941” The original publication date was supposed to be months ago, but these books are a huge undertaking with a limited readership so it was delayed. I have every volume published so far, from Vol 1, 1924-1927 to the present one, and I haunt Amazon until they start listing the next volume for pre-order. They cost about $35 each, which is cheap at the price for a long-time Annie fan such as myself. As a kid in the 50’s I read the strips while Gray was still drawing them, then later, in the 70’s, I worked at the Oregon State University Library, and would spend my lunch hour down in the microfilm room reading Annie (and other strips) in the Chicago Tribune from the thirties and forties, but I never could find much about Annie’s history in the twenties until I got vols 1-3. Annie was a sweet-looking child of 8 or 9 back then, and slowly grew into a 12-year-old by the thirties, where she stayed for the rest of her incarnation with Harold Gray. This current incarnation looks to be more like 13-14, and is more volitile than Gray’s Annie, which (I suppose) is consistant with her appearing to be entering adolescence. Anyway, I highly recommend this series to all the Annie fans. Each volume costs about as much as a dinner in a nice restaurant, but will entertain you much longer! P.S. I will repost this again tomorrow so more people can see it and maybe buy the book, thus supporting the publication project and insuring that future volumes will be published.
Night-Gaunt49: Yes there is a compendium (of sorts). It covers 1935-1945, but is not complete (unlike the series which IS complete). It is called "ARF! The Life and Times of Little Orphan Annie. It’s on sale at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/times-Little-Orphan-Annie-1935-1945/dp/0870000985/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371701272&sr=1-15&keywords=little+orphan+annie
gkid almost 11 years ago
This is not good. Thought Santiago waslike her body guard. Uh, should she bealone? In a strange country? (The child of “Daddy Warbucks”?)
Odd turn of events.
davidf42 almost 11 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!I agree, letting a young girl explore the jungle all alone? Amelia isn’t paying much attention here. And how old is Annie anyway? I’ve never seen her drive a jeep or a car before.
Here’s the link to Annie 2004 .
davidf42 almost 11 years ago
@ssledge – Those two stories were run back to back here at GoComics back in 2004. The first one, “The Phantom Commando,” began on July 14, 2004 and the second one, “Broadcast Ranch,” ran from September 23, 2004 to January 27, 2005. They were two very great stories, with excellent artwork.
TruckerRon almost 11 years ago
But to get the story moving along, yep, Annie will drive off into the jungle and meet ___________ .
LeslieBark almost 11 years ago
Hooray! It finally arrived: “The Complete Little Orphan Annie, volume nine: Saints and Cynics, Daily and Sunday Comics 1940-1941” The original publication date was supposed to be months ago, but these books are a huge undertaking with a limited readership so it was delayed. I have every volume published so far, from Vol 1, 1924-1927 to the present one, and I haunt Amazon until they start listing the next volume for pre-order. They cost about $35 each, which is cheap at the price for a long-time Annie fan such as myself. As a kid in the 50’s I read the strips while Gray was still drawing them, then later, in the 70’s, I worked at the Oregon State University Library, and would spend my lunch hour down in the microfilm room reading Annie (and other strips) in the Chicago Tribune from the thirties and forties, but I never could find much about Annie’s history in the twenties until I got vols 1-3. Annie was a sweet-looking child of 8 or 9 back then, and slowly grew into a 12-year-old by the thirties, where she stayed for the rest of her incarnation with Harold Gray. This current incarnation looks to be more like 13-14, and is more volitile than Gray’s Annie, which (I suppose) is consistant with her appearing to be entering adolescence. Anyway, I highly recommend this series to all the Annie fans. Each volume costs about as much as a dinner in a nice restaurant, but will entertain you much longer! P.S. I will repost this again tomorrow so more people can see it and maybe buy the book, thus supporting the publication project and insuring that future volumes will be published.
LeslieBark almost 11 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: Yes there is a compendium (of sorts). It covers 1935-1945, but is not complete (unlike the series which IS complete). It is called "ARF! The Life and Times of Little Orphan Annie. It’s on sale at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/times-Little-Orphan-Annie-1935-1945/dp/0870000985/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371701272&sr=1-15&keywords=little+orphan+annie