What was the original name of the orphan created in 1924 by cartoonist Harold Gray in the comic strip we know as Little Orphan Annie?
Harold Gray "Chicago Tribune" and stayed until 1919 when he left to freelance in commercial art. In 1923, while residing in Lombard, Illinois, he became a Freemason. From 1921 to 1924, he did the lettering for Sidney Smith's "The Gumps". After he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for "Little Orphan Otto", the title was altered by "Chicago Tribune" editor Joseph Medill Patterson to "Little Orphan Annie", launched August 5, 1924. Gray's first wife, Doris C. Platt, died in late 1925. He married Winifred Frost in 1929, and the couple moved to Greens Farms, Connecticut, spending winters in La Jolla,
Little Orphan Annie from the Chicago Tribune-New York Times Syndicate, Inc. for the dates 1943, 1959–61 and 1965–68, as well as originals and photocopies of the printed versions of "Little Orphan Annie", both daily and Sunday strips. Considering both Cupples & Leon and Pacific Comics Club, the biggest gap is in 1928. Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York