Who was Daddy Warbucks?

[lgiver@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Kriton:
            Daddy Warbucks is certainly not a new character.  He's from
the old (1924-1979) newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie".
Forbes shows a picture of real people, as there was fairly recently
a musical movie "Annie" based on that comic strip.  Daddy Warbucks
is earlier than the first appearance (1947) of Scrooge.  I don't
know much about Little Orphan Annie, but I suppose at some point
she was adopted by Big Daddy Warbucks.
                                        ---Larry Giver.