Issue | #152 |
Published | 1947 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, No. 152." No code number. Copyright 1942, 1944, 1947 by News Syndicate, Inc. Sixth of seven Little Orphan Annie Four Colors. Continues as "Little Orphan Annie" (Dell, 1948 series) with #1 (March-May 1948). Story episodes were apparently first printed in serial form in Super Comics (unknown issues). |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog) |
Notes | Cover has background of panels from the comics with drawn figures (likely not by Gray) in the foreground. |
Characters | Maw Green |
Synopsis | Three strips spliced together: Not our trouble; Better than next year; Dual personality |
Genre | humor |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. |
Reprinted | from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Paul Proof; Itchy Hide; Happy Hark ("Hoppy's" son); Turk Torp |
Synopsis | Annie finds the body of "Hoppy" Hark in an abandoned ice house. |
Genre | crime |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Happy Hark; Paul Proof; Turk Torp; Guy Gulp; Itchy Hyde |
Synopsis | Annie finds a combination to a safe in "Hoppy" Hark's room, then gets shot at while walking through the woods. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Guy Gulp; Paul Proof; Turk Torp; Itchy Hyde; Fred Form; Sam Sleazy |
Synopsis | Racketeer Turk Torp frames town drunk Guy Gulp for the murder of "Hoppy" Hark. However, newspaper editor Paul Proof hires detectives who find enough evidence to clear Gulp and get a Grand Jury indictment against Torp. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Sam Sleazy; Turk Torp; Paul Proof; Fred Form; Itchy Hyde |
Synopsis | Shyster lawyer Sam Sleazy tampers with the jury and gets Turk Torp declared innocent of murder. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Turk Torp; Paul Proof; the Duke; Weasel |
Synopsis | Fearing for her life, Annie decides to leave Gooneyville. As she and Sandy hop a ride in a freight car in the rail yard, Turk Torp makes a last effort to silence her. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); the Duke; Mazie; Boom-Boom Bill; Tito |
Synopsis | After hopping a train to the big city, Annie befriends a beggar, who turns out to be well-off and sets Annie and Sandy up in a room in the boarding house where he lives. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Weasel; the Duke; Mazie; Lt. Grogan; Mrs. Bloater; Guppy |
Synopsis | Annie gets a job delivering packages for Tito the grocer, but has to fend off professional busy-bodies who consider "child labor" scandalous. |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harodl Gray |
Reprinted | from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944. |
Characters | Maw Green |
Synopsis | Three strips spliced together: Editorial policy; Orators; Never Look Back |
Genre | humor |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Reference to reading Little Orphan Annie in the newspaper in the last part of the sequence. |
Reprinted | from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942. |
Characters | Maw Green |
Synopsis | Three strips spliced together: Playing Beethoven; A good reason and a real reason; and "Yer money or yer life!" |
Genre | humor |
Script | Harold Gray |
Pencils | Harold Gray |
Inks | Harold Gray |
Notes | Back cover. |
Reprinted | from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942. |