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Harold Gray

Born

in Kankakee, Illinois, The United States

January 20, 1894

Died

May 09, 1968

Genre

Comics

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Harold Lincoln Gray was an American newspaper artist and cartoonist.

Gray grew up on a farm near the small town of Chebanse, Illinois. He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in engineering, but as an artist, he was largely self-taught. A former letterer for Sidney Smith on The Gumps, he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for Little Orphan Otto. The title was quickly altered by Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson to Little Orphan Annie.
By the 1930s this strip had evolved from a crudely-drawn melodrama to a crisply rendered atmospheric story with novelistic plot threads. The dialogue consisted mainly of meditations on Gray's own deeply conservative political philosophy.
Gray sometimes ghosted Little Joe (1933-72), the strip ...more

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Harold Gray’s books

Average rating: 4.28 · 440 ratings · 79 reviews · 115 distinct works

	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 1: Will Tomorrow Ever Come? 1924-1927 4.25 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 2: The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn, 1927-1929 4.53 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 3: And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them, 1930-1931 4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 4: A House Divided, 1932-1933 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 5, 1935 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 5: The One-Way Road to Justice, 1933-1935 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 8: Shanghaid at the Last Port of Call, 1938-1940 by Harold Gray, Dean Mullaney (Editor) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 7: The Omnipotent Mr. Am!, 1936-1938 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 6: Punjab the Wizard, 1935-1936 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Orphan Annie, Volume 9: Saints and Cynics, 1940-1941 by Harold Gray, Dean Mullaney (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars