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Issue: Four Color #152
Publication Date: June 1947
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Issues: #152 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Little Orphan Annie
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/16/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, No. 152." No code number. Copyright 1942, 1944, 1947 by News Syndicate, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 197. 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).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover has background of panels from the comics with drawn figures (likely not by Gray) in the foreground.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Maw Green
Character(s): Maw Green
First Line: Ah, trouble, trouble...
Synopsis: Three strips spliced together: Not our trouble; Better than next year; Dual personality
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Reprint Notes: from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Annie Finds a Body in an Ice House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Combination to District Attorney's Safe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Evidence Against Turk Torp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Trial of Turk Torp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Annie Leaves Gooneyville

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Mazie's Boarding House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Delivering Packages for Tito

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1944.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Maw Green
Character(s): Maw Green
First Line: What Would ye say is the idiotorial policy...
Synopsis: Three strips spliced together: Editorial policy; Orators; Never Look Back
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Reprint Notes: from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Reference to reading Little Orphan Annie in the newspaper in the last part of the sequence.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Maw Green
Character(s): Maw Green
First Line: Yer daughter must be getting to be a big girl now...
Synopsis: Three strips spliced together: Playing Beethoven; A good reason and a real reason; and "Yer money or yer life!"
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Reprint Notes: from Maw Green (News Syndicate) Sunday strips from 1942.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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