The Complete Little Orphan Annie

The Complete Little Orphan Annie is a hardcover book series collecting the complete output of the American comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, written and drawn by Harold Gray from the strip's debut in 1924 to Gray's death in 1968. The newspaper comic strip title as a whole was published uninterrupted during 86 years straight (1924–2010) under the Tribune Media Services syndicate. A strip ranked as the most popular comics strip in its heyday according to a Fortune poll. The publisher of this book series is The Library of American Comics, the series' first volume was released in June, 2008. Background The series was first announced in March 2007, by Dean Mullaney of The Library of American Comics, with a planned release in February 2008. After some delays the release date was pushed forward to June, 2008. This The Complete Little Orphan Annie reprint series was after The Complete Terry and the Pirates and The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, the third comic strip reprint project in order that was initiated by The Library of American Comics. Format The hardcover volumes of this series presents themself in a landscape format of 11 inches × 8.5 inches, approximately (280 mm × 216 mm), allowing three daily comic strips or one full Sunday page to be reproduced per page. The strips are all chronologicly reprinted, the dailies in black-and-white and the Sunday pages reproduced in full color. The books have sewn binding and comes with a ribbon bookmark and a dust jacket. The volumes have extensive indexes over their content, to cater towards scholars. The paper quality is a matte and heavy stock. Editing and design for the books was done by Dean Mullaney.