1982 Little Orphan Annie - 86 Original Strips (1926 Era)

The Story

This c. 1982 Dover paperback returns Little Orphan Annie to her first full year in print — an unabridged republication of the 1926 Cupples and Leon collection, 86 strips just as they ran in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers in 1925. Harold Gray's heroine was barely a year old then and already at her resourceful best: Sandy at her heel, “Daddy” Warbucks' financial empire to defend, and a pair of memorable schemers — the snobbish Selby Adelbert Piffleberry, dubbed “S.A.P.” by Annie herself, and the unsavory Count de Tour — to outwit. Edges show the age-toning a four-decade-old paperback earns; the pages sit tight in the binding. A sound reading copy for slow Sunday mornings, or for anyone tracing the funny pages back to their roots.

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