Little Orphan Annie:
Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray, ran as a daily and Sunday comic strip for several decades. Annie, an orphan, was taken in by "Daddy" Oliver Warbucks, a prototypical capitalist of almost unlimited wealth and influence. With his right-hand men, Punjab (an eight-foot native of India) and The Asp (an inscrutably generalized Oriental), Warbucks tackled international intrigue and the neverending plots to kidnap or harm Annie.
Probably no other comic strip has ever so completely glorified the American business ethic, although Warbucks enjoyed cordial relations with his unionized employees and there were a share of corrupt businessmen as villians.
Annie's main physical characteristics were a mop of red, curly hair and vacant circles for eyes. She was always accompanied by her dog, Sandy.
The strip embodied it's creator Harold Gray's conservative political and social nature, and made it to the movies, to radio, to the phenomenally popular Broadway play "Annie" and into the world of popular song with Annie's rendition of "Tomorrow,tomorrow"
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