Annie might feel as if she's between hammer and anvil,
but those are about the only menaces she avoids during the early 1950s! In less
than two years of stories, the little orphan gets run over by a car, shot with a
pistol, whacked with a bludgeon, firebombed in her bed, shoved in a gunny sack,
caught in a tornado, flung overboard in a raging storm, and thrown alive into an
underground cemetery vault. Meanwhile, "Daddy" Warbucks, Punjab, and the Asp are
a thousand miles away, with no clue to the whereabouts of America's spunkiest
kid.


"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" reprints all daily and
color Sunday strips from October 29, 1951 through July 5, 1953. Included are
five stories replete with greed and murder, atomic boats, blackmailers,
poisoners, and deadly mutineersyet also filled with good Samaritans and
friendship from the most unexpected quarter, while also posing the question: can
romance survive in a town called Futility?