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'''''Little Orphan Annie''''' is a comic strip created by Harold Gray in 1924. The original version ran through 1974 (with everything after Gray's death in 1968 done by other authors); Leonard Starr resurrected it in 1979, when the Broadway play took off. It finally wound up in June 2010.
In the strip, plucky redheaded orphan Annie is taken in by self-made millionaire "Daddy" Warbucks, the world's richest bald person. Since there's only so many ways of doing "Thieves try to steal the Warbucks millions" and "Kidnappers try to steal Annie so they can get their hands on the Warbucks millions", Annie would often be separated from her protector for months at a time, living on the streets again and bringing sunshine into the lives of struggling small-businessmen, honest laborers, and little old ladies with evil bank-managers.
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In 1972, Martin Charnin bought the rights to the comic strip. With Thomas Meehan and Charles Strouse, he created the Broadway musical ''Annie'' in 1977. For more about it and its spin-offs (including the 1982 film), see ''[[Annie]]''.
In 1995, ''Annie: A Royal Adventure'', a [[Made for TV Movie]] starring Ashley Johnson, aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
Despite the enduring popularity of the musical and movies, the strip itself declined in popularity after the Leonard Starr era, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100516033530/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/13/2010-05-13_little_orphan_gonnie_from_the_daily_news.html ended its 86-year run] in [http://www.gocomics.com/annie/2010/06/13 June of 2010], [[No Ending|in the middle]] of [[Aborted Arc|a story arc that saw Annie kidnapped in Guatemala]] and [[Downer Ending|presumed dead by Warbucks]]. After Warbucks made a few cameos in [[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|''Dick Tracy'']] on his own search for Annie, [[Crossover|a lengthy crossover arc in 2014]] saw Tracy's agency [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|team up with Warbucks to rescue Annie]], thus concluding the storyline and comic in October of 2014.
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