An entire year of strips. Both dailies AND Sundays. This Fantagraphics series is the only reprinting to include the Little Orphan Annie Sundays (Arf!, Cupples and Leon, Dover, and IDW only reprint dailies).
From the introduction:"In the episodes in this volume, Daddy Warbucks is victimized not only by fickle financial evolutions but also by craven politicians. Gray lays it on pretty heavy: his politicos are not only self-serving, they are in partnership with organized crime.But revenge, when it comes, is sweet: Warbucks is vindicated on every side. However, he is still a pauper. Once again, Harold Gray must arrange for his hero to wrest a fortune from a hostile world. And Warbucks, the quintessential self-made man, the capitalist champion, must do it wholly on his own.In the events related during the closing months of 1934, Little Orphan Annie takes an almost imperceptible turn towards the kind of political advocacy for which Gray has been both canonized and castigated - arch-conservatism.Warbucks behavior is perfectly logical in the context of the strip’s world and the history of its characters, but the logic would eventually drive Gray into direct confrontation with Roosevelt and his men…"

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