Parental Abandonment/Newspaper Comics

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  • Little Orphan Annie. Of course, she soon had a very strong father figure in Daddy Warbucks, but the earliest stories had her literally on her own in the world, and she never really has a mother figure.
    • Except in Annie, the stage musical adaptation and the film musical, where she has Warbucks' secretary Grace acting as a mother figure.
  • The title character in the newspaper strip Dondi was an Italian WW 2 orphan adopted by an American GI, although this was de-emphasized after the strip's first few years.
  • Wellington in the British newspaper strip The Perishers is an orphan who lives with his dog Boot, originally in a large concrete pipe and later in a small abandoned railway station.