Trivia / Little Orphan Annie

• Executive Meddling: A recurring plot in the strip is Annie getting away from Warbucks somehow, subsequently finding somebody poor to live with, and eventually getting back to Warbucks. The reason that things usually went this way was that while Gray wanted to let Annie keep being Warbucks' daughter, Gray's boss Captain Patterson thought she'd be more interesting if she stayed poor. They compromised, and Annie lived with poor people half the time and with Warbucks the other half.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The only way you can read most of the Leonard Starr strips. One book of them was published over twenty years ago, but it only contained two arcs (less than a year's worth of strips) from the very beginning. And good luck finding the Sunday pages from 1924-1929; IDW didn't collect them in their books until the third volume since they usually didn't have any important connection to the story.
  • Formerly the case with the RKO-produced 1932 film adaptation. The current RKO may have had the film in their archives, but re-releasing it was apparently a legal pain in the rear due to Sony currently owning the media rights to the Annie franchise. It didn't reach home video until 2022, as a bonus feature for the Annie (1982) 4K UltraHD Blu-ray.
• Missing Episode: The 1938 Paramount film (not to be confused with the 1932 RKO production) has not been publically seen again since its original release, and all that exists of it now are newspaper descriptions and promotional photos. It's still unknown if the master reel is lost, or if the film's just stuck in legal limbo like the RKO film was.
• Recycled Script: Many lines in the "Uncle" Dan arc were copied almost word-for-word from other strips in the same arc.
• What Could Have Been: Concept art for a proposed Hanna-Barbera animated series surfaced online, showing Annie, Warbucks and a host of Canon Foreigners. Said art was done by Alex Toth in 1992 for his idea of a Jonny Quest-style series, but this fell through for unknown reasons.