44 – Annie Meets The Asp
Popular Comics #27 (February 1938) has Little Orphan Annie meet The Asp, Daddy Warbuck’s other Asian bodyguard.
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19 – Sandra of the Secret Service
With the introduction of its New Comics magazie, National Allied Publications renamed their “New Fun” comic to “More Fun”. Sandra of the Secret Service had been present in that magazine since its first issue and is thus the very first example of a female comic book hero. Note that the villain here, Count Taurus, has […]
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16 – Little Orphan Babs
Detective Dan Dunn had a child sidekick by October 1935 in the form of an orphan named Babs (shown above from Famous Funnies #16). It feels like they were going for a Little Orphan Annie vibe here, but I’m sure it’s not coincidence that Dick Tracy also had also adopted an orphan son (Junior) just […]
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