Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945 [Hardcover]

Harold Gray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1970

This large volume has much of the background and comic art that made the series had dealt with Depression under which Daddy Warbucks was wealthy and Annie survived with her dog Sandy.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Arlington House; 1ST edition (1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870000985
• ISBN-13: 978-0870000980
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fairly good sampling of a decade in Annie's career, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945 (Hardcover)

What a life Annie had-and with her dog Sandy,she went through adventure after adventure-sometimes, but not always,with the help of her gaurdian, "Daddy,"Warbucks.

These were the truly topical years in Annie's career that she was known for.Learn how she handles New deal advocates,see her as she begins the Junior Commandoes during the war(which led to many actual groups of children forming clubs to aid the war),and learn how she survived many turmoils and near-tragedies during the times when America was in it's tragic years.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the musical, December 28, 2004

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Henry Cate III (CA. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945 (Hardcover)

I recently saw a performance of "Little Orphan Annie." I got to wondering about the comic strip. This book has selections from the comic strip from 1935 to 1945. The book is a brick; it is about five pounds. The pages are not numbered, but there are easily 500 pages here. You can read six strips at a time, three on the left, and three on the right. The date for each strip is right above the strip.

It is easy to see why the strip was so popular. This was a hard book to put down. The stories are fun and entertaining. You do have to ignore many unlikely events.

The book shows an interesting contrast between how there have been some great changes over the last seventy years, and how many things are still the same.

For example in one of the threads there is a discussion of how Warbucks might be developing atomic energy. There is another story of Nazis taking over a castle in the United States. Often Annie is in trouble and it is hard to get to a phone. From incidents like this you can see some of the changes over the last seventy years. Nowadays with so many people having cell phones, Annie would have been able to avoid lots of problems with a quick phone call.

Then on the flip side so many of the problems Annie dealt with are motivated by common themes through all of literature, greed, jealousy, malice, and so on. Annie often has to endure some terrible situation, but always in the end things work out.

The only reason I didn't give this five stars is because this book has selections from the ten year period, and huge chunks are missing. Most of the time it isn't that noticeable, but ever once in awhile a story would start to wrap up, and then the book would jump to strips published a couple months later without a complete conclusion. I would rather have had a book with the complete selection of five years, than to have a partial selection over a ten year period.

All in all this is a fun book. If you are looking for some hours of entertainment, and you are interested in knowing more about Little Orphan Annie, this is a good book to read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good History of Little Orphan Annie!, September 7, 2003

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Melvin Hunt (Cleveland,, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945 (Hardcover)

This book is an outstanding collection of the cartoons that
made Little Orphan Annie a comic legend.This book gives you a
good history of the life and times of Little Orphan Annie.You
are able to meet Daddy Warbucks,Punjab,Sandy and the other characters who made up the life of Little Orphan Annie.If you
are a fan of collector comics this is the book for you.