Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. He made his first appearance in the New York Daily News in the Annie strip on September 27, 1924. In the series, he is said to be around 52 years of age.
Daddy Warbucks
Little Orphan Annie was 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 it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
First Little Orphan Annie Sunday page (November 2, 1924)
Leonard Starr's Little Orphan Annie
Members of the original Broadway cast for Annie: Andrea McArdle as Annie, Reid Shelton as Daddy Warbucks, and Sandy