Finally, after all these years, I get to see the mysterious Mrs. Warbucks. She never to my knowledge appeared in the “Little Orphan Annie” comic again, despite numerous appearances by “Daddy” Warbucks.
Somehow I miss Harvey Kurtzman’s and Will Elder’s “Little Annie Fanny,” with Sugardaddy Bigbucks, the Wasp, and Shazam.
My understanding is that Oliver Warbucks didn’t just adopt Annie because his wife did not approve of her. Yet in all the years I’d read the comic I’d never seen Mrs. Warbucks nor even heard of her. I got my information from an outside source.
Harold Gray, creator of the comic, is Annie’s biological father?!?!?!Interesting parallel with Marvel’s Spider-Man — Peter Parker’s parents were intelligence agents.
I see the guest writer is following the old Chester Gould convention of giving a strange-sounding last name that turns out to be a reverse description of the bearer of the name. In this case, “Nuremoh” is “homerun” backwards.
Finally, after all these years, I get to see the mysterious Mrs. Warbucks. She never to my knowledge appeared in the “Little Orphan Annie” comic again, despite numerous appearances by “Daddy” Warbucks.
Somehow I miss Harvey Kurtzman’s and Will Elder’s “Little Annie Fanny,” with Sugardaddy Bigbucks, the Wasp, and Shazam.