Title: Harold Gray
Content: Harold Gray Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie". He is considered to be the first American cartoonist to use a comic strip to express a political philosophy. Harold Gray was born in Kankakee, Illinois on January 20, 1894, to Estella Mary () and Ira Lincoln Gray, a farmer. Both parents died before he finished high school in 1912 in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the family had moved. In 1913, he got his first newspaper job at a Lafayette daily.

Title: Little Orphan Annie
Content: Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York "Daily News". The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and communism. Following

Title: Harold Gray
Content: "Chicago Tribune" and stayed until 1919 when he left to freelance in commercial art. In 1923, while residing in Lombard, Illinois, he became a Freemason. From 1921 to 1924, he did the lettering for Sidney Smith's "The Gumps". After he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for "Little Orphan Otto", the title was altered by "Chicago Tribune" editor Joseph Medill Patterson to "Little Orphan Annie", launched August 5, 1924. Gray's first wife, Doris C. Platt, died in late 1925. He married Winifred Frost in 1929, and the couple moved to Greens Farms, Connecticut, spending winters in La Jolla,

Title: Little Orphan Annie
Content: from the Chicago Tribune-New York Times Syndicate, Inc. for the dates 1943, 1959–61 and 1965–68, as well as originals and photocopies of the printed versions of "Little Orphan Annie", both daily and Sunday strips. Considering both Cupples & Leon and Pacific Comics Club, the biggest gap is in 1928. Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York

Title: Little Orphan Annie
Content: mysterious Mister Am, a friend of Warbucks' who wears a Santa Claus–like beard and has a jovial personality. He claims to have lived for millions of years and even having supernatural powers. Some strips hinted that he might even be God. After World War I, cartoonist Harold Gray joined the "Chicago Tribune" which, at that time, was being reworked by owner Joseph Medill Patterson into an important national journal. As part of his plan, Patterson wanted to publish comic strips that would lend themselves to nationwide syndication and to film and radio adaptations. Gray's strips were consistently rejected by Patterson,

Question: What was the original name of the orphan created in 1924 by cartoonist Harold Gray in the comic strip we know as Little Orphan Annie?
Answer: Otto