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Issue Details

Issue	#206
Published	December 1948
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, No. 206." Code number is O.A. #206-4812. (No "O.S." in code number.) Copyright 1940, 1941, 1948 by News Syndicate Co., Inc.

Cover Details

Characters

Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Little Billy

1 page Maw Green story "Did you hear that I'm engaged to an Irish boy?"

Characters	Maw Green
Synopsis	Three Sunday strips edited into one set of jokes. 1) Really? No, Riley! 2) Saving three dollars a week. and 3) Do those tattoos wash off?
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 Co.) Sunday strips from 1941

32 page Little Orphan Annie story "The Battle for Peg's Son, Billy"

Characters	Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Myrna May; Peg; Peter La Plata [Bill Slagg]; Little Billy; Bert; Bess; Sam the tailor; Judge Cairns; Anvil
Synopsis	Peg becomes a successful dress designer. Her former husband, band leader and movie star Peter La Plata (Bill Slagg), tries to take their son away from his parents, who are raising the boy in the boarding house where Peg and Annie are staying. (Not knowing that the boy is Peg's son.) Failing in his attempt to get his parents to give him the boy, La Plata breaks his wrist while taking a swing at Sam the tailor, which sets a series of events in motion that leads to his downfall.
Genre	soap
Script	Harold Gray
Pencils	Harold Gray
Inks	Harold Gray
Reprinted	from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from 1940.

1 page Maw Green story "Shame on ye! What would yer mither think if she should hear ye swear like that?"

Characters	Maw Green
Synopsis	Three strips edited to form one page: 1) Deaf as a Post, 2) Same old baloney, and 3) "Knuckles" Finnegan.
Genre	humor
Script	Harold Gray
Pencils	Harold Gray
Inks	Harold Gray
Notes	Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted	from Maw Green (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1941

1 page Maw Green story "Congratulations, Gram-paw O'Reilley-Nointy-eight today..."

Characters	Maw Green
Synopsis	Three strips edited to form one page: 1) Die at 98 or 47?, 2} He who laughs last--Lasts!, and 3) Honesty pays.
Genre	humor
Script	Harold Gray
Pencils	Harold Gray
Inks	Harold Gray
Notes	Back cover.
Reprinted	from Maw Green (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1941