The Complete Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 7: 1936-1938 -- The Omnipotent Mr. Am


 

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Description

The best collection of Harold Gray's classic adventure comic strip. Great reading. My favorite comic strip of all time.

From the publisher:

Introducing two of the strip's most incredible characters: The Asp -- who has sometimes been likened to the Grim Reaper -- and Mr. Am -- who has been said might be a representation of the Almighty. Harold Gray is at the top of his game as he also introduces the mysterious Shanghai Peg and the frightening villain Boris Sirob, who actually kills both "Daddy" Warbucks and The Asp. "Daddy" dead? Wait until you read this one! Includes all dailies and color Sundays from October 1, 1936 through June 8, 1938.

Features:

Over 600 sequential strips
Three daily strips or one Sunday per page
Sunday pages reproduced in full color
Printed on a heavy matte paper stock
The comic strips have been scanned from original artwork and syndicate proofs of the Harold Gray Archives at Boston University
Extensive essays about LOA-related subjects by Jeet Heer and other comics experts in each volume
Edited and designed by Eisner-Award winner Dean Mullaney

"Check out The Complete Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The blank-eyed orphan was far grittier and moving than the saccharine Annie you know from the damn musical. [It] started in 1924 in a world chillingly like ours: crawling with cake-eaters, greedy bankers and international con men who exploit the hardscrabble working stiffs Annie hangs with when her "Daddy" isn't around to protect her. The cartoonist, a tightlipped Midwestern Dickens, pushes the virtues of honesty, pluck, and hard work in adventures that can melt the heart of even hard-boiled cynics like I pretend to be." -- Art Spiegelman

Features

Harold Gray

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (dustjacket spine sunned, light edgewear)

Creators

Harold
Gray

Publishing Information

San Diego
IDW Publishing
2011
2nd 2013

Physical Description

8.75 inches
11.25 inches
296 pages
black & white with Sundays and introduction in color
hardcover
cloth
English