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Issue: Four Color #76

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Publication Date: January 1945

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Issues: #76 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)

Title: Little Orphan Annie

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: A Dell Book

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

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Format

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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Content Items (6 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harold Gray

Penciller(s): Harold Gray

Inker(s): Harold Gray

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Nick Gatt; Buck; John Tecum; Jill Tecum; Axel; Sokol; Gregory Itchkovitch; Katerina Itchkovich

First Line: I have heard of this Axel-a completely heartless criminal-

Synopsis: The police and mob boss Nick Gatt use their own ways to try to find the mysterious Axel and keep him from harming Annie. Gatt's methods are more brutal--and more effective.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940.02.29-1940.03.26?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Date on first strip reprinted.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harold Gray

Penciller(s): Harold Gray

Inker(s): Harold Gray

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Gregory Itchkovich; Katerina Itchkovich; Axel; Buck; Nick Gatt; John Tecum; Jill Tecum; Byron Bolo

First Line: Oh, poppycock-why you act as if old Papa Gregory was an ogre...

Synopsis: Buck shoots Gregory as the shopkeeper tries to take Annie into a back room where Axel's men are waiting. Axel gives Gregory's wife the assignment of bringing Annie to him. She slips Annie some drugged candy and Axel's men grab her and shoot Sandy. While Axel tries to get some information from Annie, Byron Bolo, a mysterious playboy, comes to town and tries to convince the public that Nick Gatt is the one who kidnapped Annie.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940.03.27-1940.04.22

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Dates on first and last strips reprinted.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harold Gray

Penciller(s): Harold Gray

Inker(s): Harold Gray

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Nick Gatt; Axel; Katerina Itchkovich; Bryan Bolo; John Tecum; Jill Tecum

First Line: You will talk---(whack!) You'll talk plenty--

Synopsis: Annie finds out that Axel and his followers plan to take over the country. She manages to get a message to Nick Gatt's men and Gatt rescues her from Axel and takes her to his mountain hideout. Gatt captures one of Axel's men and he tells Gatt how the takeover will happen.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940.04.23-1940 ?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Date on first strip reprinted.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harold Gray

Penciller(s): Harold Gray

Inker(s): Harold Gray

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Nick Gatt; Alex; Byron Bolo; John Tecum; Jill Tecum

First Line: Without leaders, the rest of that mob wouldn't be dangerous-

Synopsis: While Nick Gatt is trying to figure out a way to stop Axel, Byron Bolo is working on a plan to eliminate Gatt and take over his rackets. Some of the businessmen go to John Tecum, the District Attorney, with misgivings about Bolo. Axel's top generals have all gathered in the waterfront hideout when Gatt's men move in, disguised as policemen, and take them to a ship bound for their "home country."

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harold Gray

Penciller(s): Harold Gray

Inker(s): Harold Gray

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Little Orphan Annie

Character(s): Little Orphan Annie; Sandy (dog); Nick Gatt; Bryan Bolo; John Tecum; Jill Tecum

First Line: That's where the tip says to go-

Synopsis: Nick Gatt brings Annie back to the Tecums, but he and Bryan Bolo are both killed in an off-panel shootout. The Tecums plan on taking Annie on a cruise to the islands.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.