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Complete Annie Volume 1 -

Did anyone else notice the "jump" on page 76 ? It looks like the 12-21-24 Sunday strip was part of the continuity, but was not included. (And maybe Dec 28 ?)

I really wish now that they would have just included all the Sundays with all the dailies, even if they are done in b&w. That would have been better than skipping most Sundays, including only those that (they thought) mattered, and in a different section! And then later start including them in volume 3, but only reprinting HALF the total number of strips! It will take FOREVER just to make it to 1950 !

I wish the Peanuts Sundays were in color, but that reprint series is better than the hodge-podge Sunday method being done here. Especially if they miss some, like in Volume 1.

Oh well, it's not the end of the world.

One last thing: C'mon IDW !! Add an Annie page to your site!!

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Well, I ordered T&P v4. It appears to be out.

I also ordered LOA v2 (which is supposed to come out today), but hope its not also delayed. Amazon.com reports a release date in October now.

FWIW, I pretty much ordered only classic comics reprints this time:

Terry & the Pirates v4
Little Orphan Annie v2
Buck Roger Dailies v1 (new reprint series from Hermes Press)
Krazy & Ignatz 1934-44 (last of the series, now they have to re-reprint the early stuff that Eclipse did)
Walt & Skeezix v2 (recently got the first volume, and am getting into this storyline).
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Once Gray got Sunday integrated into his work, it became extremely important. He'd use Mon-Sat to build towards a climax for the principal action, which would invariably occur on Sunday.

Anybody who has poured through the huge "Arf!" book knows that the publisher's omitting of Sunday strips from that book leaves the reader with a constantly frustrated feeling, often accompanied by an indequate amount of information from the few words of reprise provided on Monday. So please, please, please, include the Sunday strips.

Also, in the interest of completeness, I would certainly be willing to pay for a supplement for the period of often stand-alone Sunday strips.

Needless to say, I hold strongly with the idea of completeness. It's the fundamental atttraction for me. I used to haunt microfilm rooms.

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I got my order of T&P v4 and Walt & Skeezik v2 this Friday. Was pretty much reading W&S this weekend. This one revealed who Skeezik's mother was. Have only now started to get into T&P v4.

I believe with LOA v3, when Gray integrated the sundays with the dailies, that IDW will be reprinting them. Am sure for cost reasons they left out the sundays for the first 2 volumes. I do hope they will go back and reprint them.

The W&S series is doing the same. The volumes only reprint the dailies, with plans to later do the sundays. Guess they had separate continuties.

I have the "Arf" book, and find it frustrating on several levels, not just the lack of Sundays. They only give the first half of the "Rose Chance/Shanghai Peg" storyline. I had to go to the Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics for the last month or so to read the final conclusion. The only reason I got the Arf book recently (used), was that it covered years after the Fantagraphics books. While I'm not sure if I'll get rid of the Fantagraphics books when IDW's series covers that period, I certainly plan on doing so with the Arf book. Its just not worth keeping (tho I will probably fotocopy the intro by Al Capp).
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By the way, the cover pictures provided at Amazon are not always dependable as to date. For example, if you enlarge the cover for Vol. 5 of Gould's Tracy, the small print in the ad reads "1935-36", which is actually the dating for Vol. 3.

Also, I noticed today, Amazon is now pre-listing Vol. 7, with dates 1941-42, but with a picture of Flattop on the cover and mentioning BB Eyes. Those dates can't be accurate, since Flattop appeared 1943-44.

[Unless Vol. 7 is considerably larger at similar price, or is only ending and introducing the two characters named, the ad is startling. The book would have to cover something like Jan, '42 to May, '44; and the volumes already published are covering about 1.5 years apiece. Dunno.]

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That's good to know; thanks. It surely answers the question of how there could be more per volume.

For info, actually, the present series is running about 1 yr 7 months per book, which is a little more than the 1.5 years per volume I rounded earlier. And if the book is like "Annie", the singles will go to 3 per page, which is two pages per 6-day week instead of 3 pages. That sort of thing adds up pretty quickly.

Each volume now has about 318 pages (vol 4, at least, exact, for the cartoon itself). There are 4 pages per week. That'd be about 79 weeks, 4 days-- or 3 days, depending on the cut. Now, for vol. 7, it would be-- I imagine-- 3 pages per week, with the same number of pages, would cover 106 weeks. That's 2 weeks more than 2 years.

Now, after my previous letter, I privately made a projective calculation, using the assumed rate. Vol. 4 stops on 1/20/38. Vol. 5 (which I'm still waiting on) should end around the 1st of Sept, '39, give or take. And then Vol 6 should get to somewhere around April of '41. So that, I projected that Vol. 7 would run to Nov. of '42. That agrees with the date Amazon has in its ad.

But if the format is as "Annie", with the same number of pages, we'd have 5 months added, which would take us to April of '43. That's coming close to a year short of Flattop's breath-taking end.

There's still the fact that "Annie" (Vol.1) has 351 pp. of the original strip, which-- if the format change is that exact-- would add 33 more pages, and 11 more weeks. That would bring us to maybe July of '43.

With Flattop on the cover, it seems to me that Vol. 7 would, at least, get to him to the hospital cart. That was in Mar, '44. A lot of reprints have stopped there, which can leave people wondering why Flattop was unforgettable. Meanwhile, if he only makes an appearance, it's Dec., '43.

At best, we still need to find another 5-10 months somewhere, or else the ad got in a hurry, or (heaven forfend) there's a skip and a jump. Maybe Vol. 6 is larger in some way. Or maybe Vol. 7 is reeeally huge. What do I know? The only certain thing is that we can't have 1941-42 and Flattop simultaneously. It does seem that your idea that Flattop is gonna show up Vol. 8 is the likely explanation. It's interesting though.

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Interesting news on the Dick Tracy series. I hadn't yet gotten into getting them. I kind of felt the covers were a bit dull and too mono-chromatic. The recent mockup cover with Flatop seems to indicate a slight change to a more colorful style. Annoying that the change in size will make the series a little inconsistent, but I guess I can live with that.

Really wish Mullany was coming onto IDW forums and tell us this sort of stuff here.


Anyone know when Annie v2 is coming out. Its, what, about a month late???
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