(December 1948)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue 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.
["Did you hear that I'm engaged to an Irish boy?"]
Maw Green / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Harold Gray
- Pencils:
- Harold Gray
- Inks:
- Harold Gray
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- 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?
- Reprints:
- from Maw Green (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1941
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
[The Battle for Peg's Son, Billy]
Little Orphan Annie / comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Harold Gray
- Pencils:
- Harold Gray
- Inks:
- Harold Gray
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- soap
- 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.
- Reprints:
- from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from 1940.
["Shame on ye! What would yer mither think if she should hear ye swear like that?"]
Maw Green / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Harold Gray
- Pencils:
- Harold Gray
- Inks:
- Harold Gray
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Maw Green
- Synopsis:
- Three strips edited to form one page: 1) Deaf as a Post, 2) Same old baloney, and 3) "Knuckles" Finnegan.
- Reprints:
- from Maw Green (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1941
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
["Congratulations, Gram-paw O'Reilley-Nointy-eight today..."]
Maw Green / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Harold Gray
- Pencils:
- Harold Gray
- Inks:
- Harold Gray
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- 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.
- Reprints:
- from Maw Green (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1941
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
["Did you hear that I'm engaged to an Irish boy?"]
Maw Green -
2.
[The Battle for Peg's Son, Billy]
Little Orphan Annie -
3.
["Shame on ye! What would yer mither think if she should hear ye swear like that?"]
Maw Green -
4.
["Congratulations, Gram-paw O'Reilley-Nointy-eight today..."]
Maw Green
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- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
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