America&s spunkiest kid is hospitalized after a car crash has to fight off a dope-pushing doctor meets " Crazy Kate" (who&s not all that crazy!) & helps the bearded old man named Zaney keep his secret formula out of Nazi hands When America enters the Second World War Annie protects the home front by forming the Junior Commandos a group that inspired tens of thousands of real-life children to collect newspapers scrap metal & other items needed for the war effort The fictional " Colonel Annie" meanwhile finds herself face-to-face with fifth columnists & a Nazi submarine! Daddy Warbucks true to his name is back making munitions & leads a mysterious army overseas This volume of The Complete Little Orphan Annie

Includes:: dailies & Sundays from November 24 1941 through August 7 1943 About the Author Harold Gray was born in 1894 in Kankakee Illinois & debuted Little Orphan Annie on August 5 1924 & continued to write & draw the comic strip for forty-four years until his death in 1968

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In the depths of the Second World War Harold Gray paints a dark vision of stateside America when Annie&s most loyal friends turn out to be a boarding house full of thieves forgers & mindreaders The red-garbed orphan sees that petty politicians & their underworld companions can deprive a small town of freedom just as easily as can foreign spies & that a big city can be home to a larger & even more dangerous threat to national security To Annie&s initial joy " Daddy" Warbucks comes home from war but this time it&s not to be with his beloved adopted daughter but to die With " Daddy" gone Annie ends up terrorized by the wretchedly evil Mrs Bleating-Hart who robs Annie of her liberty in a very real & personal way Volume 11 of The Complete Little Orphan Annie reprints all daily & Sunday strips from August 8 1943 to April 14 1945 in the darkest hours before the dawn ...

It&s hard to keep a good man down & Oliver Warbucks is no exception With reports of his death greatly exaggerated Daddy is back & this time with World War II over he has to fight off a cadre of international businessmen who want him to hand over the secret of the atomic bomb! Meanwhile Annie discovers that lying dogs don&t always stay put when she has to stand trial for murder! & in a classic Harold Gray tale the little redhead finds respite on a seemingly bucolic farm run by a young woman & her grandfather but all is not what it seems Volume Twelve of The Complete Little Orphan Annie reprints all daily & Sunday strips from April 15 1945 to January 11 1947 ...

Little Orphan Annie
- the original female comics hero
- takes on chiseling business men & a gang of thieves armed only with

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Now with all Sundays in colour for the first time in more than 75 years! The action never stops as Annie gets shipwrecked with Spike Marlin for months on end Then the Depression & rival businessmen wreck Daddy Warbucks&s empire leaving him broke & ruined He & Annie rent a cheap room from Maw Green & Annie gets a job while Daddy finds work as a truck driver But a near fatal accident leaves him blind! He meets Flop House Bill & hatches a plot to claw his way back to the top against the very same rascals who forced him to lose everything in the first place! Volume 3 in The Library of American Comics presentation of Little Orphan Annie

Includes:: every daily & Sunday from April 1930 until the end of 1931 The Library of American Comics is the world&s 1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips with 14 Eisner Award nominations & three wins for best book LOAC has become the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints research & articles provide insight & context & most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them & offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time

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The astonishing debut of one of the most beautiful & mysterious women in comics history-Mike Grell&s Maggie The Cat; Jon Sable&s return to Vietnam; this is just the beginning as IDW re-presents issues 7 through 11 of First Comics&s classic Jon Sable Freelance series! This thim around we&re serving up " The Target" " Murder Is The Last Resort" " Cliffhanger" " Triptych" & " The Cat" ...

The initial 54-page story guest-stars Ronald Reagan
- & the second is Sable famous 108-page origin saga! Written & drawn by series
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Continuing the re-presentation of the entire saga of Mike Grell's classic character Jon Sable Freelance This third collection contains stories including Sable's return to Vietnam in the ground-breaking "MIA" ...

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