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But, before the insults start about the current Oop team (and I Donāt read it), maybe Amās comment referred to V.T.Hamilnās run (which was great!
When was the last time Tracy actually caught someone, The Jumbler? How many times in the past two years has his Yellow Fedora been saved by others, even criminals!
I know where The Great Am makes the connection to Tracy! He was working in the Freak Show at the circus and he caught a glimpse of Tracy getting his bacon saved in the cage by the steroid chick.
So many complaints today. I wonder if itāll be that way all summer long.Todayās strip help clears up where the story ended in Annie, and moves it directly into Tracyās jurisdiction, with a nice surprise cameo by one of Annieās supporting cast.Iām enjoying this story.
I first heard of āAmā in a āBig Little Bookā that my grandmother gave me, out of an old closet of hers, in mint condition: āLittle Orphan Annie and the Secret Treasure of Am.ā My sisters and I read that book over and over, and wore it out. I really wish I still had it in mint condition. I might be able to buy the Alley Oop comic strip and get it back to where it should be.
Speculation over Am seems rampant. We shall never know with certainty (Harold Gray, his creator, having died in 1968). But in the present controversy over the reference Am makes to āAlleyā (as if to a person), Iād suggest that Gasoline Alley is more likely (even if not a person), because it is a strip from the same Tribune syndicate (which Alley Oop is not), and because an unnamed character closely resembling Annie has shown up in that strip several times recently.
I donāt have the name of who sent the 1937 ANNIE strip. but whoever it was, it was Great ! Thank you, itās a long link, but very interesting reading.
Read the Anne link you posted. The whole story and now I get it. Harold Gray . Great writer.
Youāre welcome. Be sure to check out that whole site to see Classic Annie fighting the Nazis.
Once again:http://www.stuartliss.com/loahp/mram.html
If you didnāt notice, Mr. Am brings Warbucks and the Asp back from the dead in the 1937 continuity. I AM, indeed.
I too am concerned about this strip doing too much too soon and simultaneously. I like LOA and was sorry to see it canceled. Of course, I was one of the last 12 people to read Steve Roper and Mike Nomad before it was canceled.
Yes, it was me who put that link up, and later, I believe it was btmosley who also posted it. I actually just found it doing a Google search. Iām not the one who posted the strips. I may have some other things I can post, but I wonder about the copyright situation.
Mr. Am could easily Methuselah or the Wandering Jew or even Cain. Or none of these.
Heās kind of like God in some ways, but of course, heās not actually God. According to that first story he was in, heās had white hair for a very long time.
His advantage over other people is mostly that he seems to know a lot and he can make use of that knowledge in mysterious ways. His theory is that people have forgotten the lessons of the past, but heās been around long enough to know lots of things that ānormalā people donāt, including knowledge that has been forgotten.
He never claims to be God at all, but he seems to have a few God-like attributes, like seemingly having the ability to perform miracles and having lived forever. He has a long white beard, longer than the one of God the Creator in Michelangeloās Creation of Adam fresco, but his beard is still reminiscent of the fresco to me. In that first story, Annie never hints at him being God, but does say that he looked like Santa Claus a few times.
I think he is mainly just supposed to be mysterious.
Itās been noticed for a long time that Tracy and annie had things in common. On the ending of Annie in 2010, Chris Sims of comicsalliance.com wrote that āas early as the late ā20s, āAnnieā had shifted to focus on almost Dick Tracian levels of brutality and crime, a tradition the last team, Jay Maeder and Ted Slampyak, were keeping alive and well in the current stories.ā
Read More: The āLittle Orphan Annieā Cliffhanger Finale Is Completely Insane | http://comicsalliance.com/little-orphan-annie-ending/
cpalmeresq almost 11 years ago
āAlleyā???! Insult or compliment?
cpalmeresq almost 11 years ago
But, before the insults start about the current Oop team (and I Donāt read it), maybe Amās comment referred to V.T.Hamilnās run (which was great!
Vista Bill Raley and Cometā¢ almost 11 years ago
Good morning fellow DT and Annie fans!
I thought that āPouchā was the āofficialā source of information!
cpalmeresq almost 11 years ago
VB, I think this may be Pouchās Great, great, great, great (etc.) grandfather!
willy007 almost 11 years ago
Itās āsomeoneā named Alley, so not Gasoline.
Ashmael almost 11 years ago
If Am is so powerful and omniscient, why he has not recovered Annie himself?
Ashmael almost 11 years ago
Evidently he prefers making cryptic comments stroking his beardā¦
charliefarmrhere almost 11 years ago
I think that if the great actor Dick Van Dyke had a long beard, he would quite resemble the great AM.
scpandich almost 11 years ago
It would be interesting if Am just started appearing in various comics, like the Mystery Hipster Cops
http://ifanboy.com/articles/scott-snyder-uncovers-bizarre-background-character-mystery/
blunebottle almost 11 years ago
Pretty obvious from yesterdayās background lesson on āThe Great Amā that he is patterned after the great āI AMāā¦.
avenger09 almost 11 years ago
How sad, Tracyās turned into an accessory in his own strip!
Captain Colorado almost 11 years ago
āAlleyā? Would that be āOopā or āGasolineā?
davidf42 almost 11 years ago
Dick Tracy doesnāt resemble Alley Oop one bit, unless Am is thinking about the square jaw.
avenger09 almost 11 years ago
When was the last time Tracy actually caught someone, The Jumbler? How many times in the past two years has his Yellow Fedora been saved by others, even criminals!
davidf42 almost 11 years ago
Iām telling you, Annie is being hidden in Gasoline Alley! And Iām not joking!
Starman1948 almost 11 years ago
Good morning to all. Maybe Tracy will have an easy job finding Annie? No, that would be too easy.
Morrow Cummings almost 11 years ago
I know where The Great Am makes the connection to Tracy! He was working in the Freak Show at the circus and he caught a glimpse of Tracy getting his bacon saved in the cage by the steroid chick.
abdullahbaba999 almost 11 years ago
There are so many characters with mystic power now. Am, Asp, Punjab & Mysta all have super-powers to fight crime..Coolā¦and Samās smoking e-cigsā¦
tsull2121 almost 11 years ago
jpuzzā¦ youd have to be on WHEELS to be pork chopped out of here wouldnt you? ;)
Can't Sleep almost 11 years ago
So many complaints today. I wonder if itāll be that way all summer long.Todayās strip help clears up where the story ended in Annie, and moves it directly into Tracyās jurisdiction, with a nice surprise cameo by one of Annieās supporting cast.Iām enjoying this story.
Morrow Cummings almost 11 years ago
Absolutely, Gweedo! It was the vaudeville that brought us all together in the first place! Thatās what made Mattie famous!
Max Starman Jones almost 11 years ago
I first heard of āAmā in a āBig Little Bookā that my grandmother gave me, out of an old closet of hers, in mint condition: āLittle Orphan Annie and the Secret Treasure of Am.ā My sisters and I read that book over and over, and wore it out. I really wish I still had it in mint condition. I might be able to buy the Alley Oop comic strip and get it back to where it should be.
the_terrible almost 11 years ago
Okayyyyyā¦. if this joker is right, how did Annie escape?
Chris Sherlock almost 11 years ago
Or maybe Gene Alley, the former MLB player.
LittleIggy almost 11 years ago
Snooze time.
Ken in Ohio almost 11 years ago
@ Ken in Ohio:āHe may be writeā should read āHe may be rightā ā I was not trying to make a pun, I just made a mistake. Sorry about that.
Morrow Cummings almost 11 years ago
Hey, BB! Peace to ya, my friend! And if ya want, Iāll change it to āpieceā.
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Speculation over Am seems rampant. We shall never know with certainty (Harold Gray, his creator, having died in 1968). But in the present controversy over the reference Am makes to āAlleyā (as if to a person), Iād suggest that Gasoline Alley is more likely (even if not a person), because it is a strip from the same Tribune syndicate (which Alley Oop is not), and because an unnamed character closely resembling Annie has shown up in that strip several times recently.
btmosley almost 11 years ago
I donāt have the name of who sent the 1937 ANNIE strip. but whoever it was, it was Great ! Thank you, itās a long link, but very interesting reading.
Read the Anne link you posted. The whole story and now I get it. Harold Gray . Great writer.
Youāre welcome. Be sure to check out that whole site to see Classic Annie fighting the Nazis.
Once again:http://www.stuartliss.com/loahp/mram.html
If you didnāt notice, Mr. Am brings Warbucks and the Asp back from the dead in the 1937 continuity. I AM, indeed.
I too am concerned about this strip doing too much too soon and simultaneously. I like LOA and was sorry to see it canceled. Of course, I was one of the last 12 people to read Steve Roper and Mike Nomad before it was canceled.
Neil Wick almost 11 years ago
Yes, it was me who put that link up, and later, I believe it was btmosley who also posted it. I actually just found it doing a Google search. Iām not the one who posted the strips. I may have some other things I can post, but I wonder about the copyright situation.
Neil Wick almost 11 years ago
Just think of it: The Great Am meeting The Great Ham!
I liked you play on words, even if others are ready to chop you to death.Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl almost 11 years ago
Mr. Am finds Tracyās face familiar.
Maybe he reads the āJ. Straightedge Trustworthyā strip by Vera Alley-did.
admwrlk Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I also thank you for the AM strip, it was fun. Who is the Butcher of the Balkans?
Chris-One almost 11 years ago
Guess what this Fridayās gonna be? The four year anniversary of the final Annie comic strip.
Neil Wick almost 11 years ago
Mr. Am could easily Methuselah or the Wandering Jew or even Cain. Or none of these.
Heās kind of like God in some ways, but of course, heās not actually God. According to that first story he was in, heās had white hair for a very long time.His advantage over other people is mostly that he seems to know a lot and he can make use of that knowledge in mysterious ways. His theory is that people have forgotten the lessons of the past, but heās been around long enough to know lots of things that ānormalā people donāt, including knowledge that has been forgotten.
He never claims to be God at all, but he seems to have a few God-like attributes, like seemingly having the ability to perform miracles and having lived forever. He has a long white beard, longer than the one of God the Creator in Michelangeloās Creation of Adam fresco, but his beard is still reminiscent of the fresco to me. In that first story, Annie never hints at him being God, but does say that he looked like Santa Claus a few times.
I think he is mainly just supposed to be mysterious.
Neil Wick almost 11 years ago
Itās been noticed for a long time that Tracy and annie had things in common. On the ending of Annie in 2010, Chris Sims of comicsalliance.com wrote that āas early as the late ā20s, āAnnieā had shifted to focus on almost Dick Tracian levels of brutality and crime, a tradition the last team, Jay Maeder and Ted Slampyak, were keeping alive and well in the current stories.ā
Read More: The āLittle Orphan Annieā Cliffhanger Finale Is Completely Insane | http://comicsalliance.com/little-orphan-annie-ending/
davidf42 over 5 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!