Little Orphan Annie is one of my favourite comics, and is easily within my top 5 comic strips of all time. I love Annie so much that I somehow picked up two copies of Little Orphan Annie In The Great Depression, released in 1979 by public domain specialists Dover Publications. Some people collect variant covers of Lady Death comics. Not this guy.

I have a big box of stuff that I’m hoping to get rid of before I move, and the Little Orphan Annie book is resting on top. I’ve never been one of those people who was put off by Annie’s lack of pupils, but that cover has been freaking me out for a couple of days now. Sandy’s a fucking monster. After a few nights of lost sleep, I decided to crack open the collection and see if the image they used was somewhere in the book, and if so, whether they had tampered with it.

Who decided that it was a good idea to change an innocent yawn into a soulless maw from Hell?