Leapin' Lizards!

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks to Garson O'Toole, John Baker, Bill Mullins, and others for their excellent responses to my queries about Margaret Thatcher quotations.  Here's another challenge:  Can anyone find any information as to what was the exact date of the first appearance of the exclamation "Leapin' Lizards!" in the Little Orphan Annie comic strip?

Fred Shapiro

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