Little Lotta
#23
(August 1959)
Harvey,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-05-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]
- Synopsis
- Lotta dreams of catching a whale and putting it in a huge sandwich.
- Reprints
in 
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look out! Tsk... can't reach it!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; cat
- Synopsis
- Lotta is frustrated when the housecat gets in her way as she tries to access a cookie jar on a high shelf.
- Reprints
-
in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #14 (October 1967)
-
The She Monster
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good! I'll wear it!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; saleslady; junk dealer; boys; townspeople; paper boy
- Synopsis
- When Lotta goes swimming, two over-imaginative boys think she is a sea monster.
- Reprints
- in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #14 (October 1967)
-
[no title indexed]
Bobbie the Baby Sitter / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Brutus will be mad if you try to make me go to bed!
- Genre
- children; humor; teen
- Characters
- Bobbie [Bobbie the Baby Sitter]; Skip; Brutus
- Synopsis
- Bobbie finds a way to enlist the dog's help in putting little Skip to bed.
- Reprints
- in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #14 (October 1967)
-
[no title indexed]
Jerry the Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Before you proceed to paint that flagpole, I have a suggestion, Jerry!
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Jerry [Jerry the Jinx]; Percy
- Synopsis
- Jerry refuses to listen to Percy's advice about painting a flagpole.
- Reprints
- in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #14 (October 1967)
-
Nothing But the Tooth
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Papa, look! You swallowed my wrist watch?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Mr. Plump; Dot Polka [Little Dot]; motorist; Mr. Tinkel; fireworks vendor
- Synopsis
- Rather than pay a dentist to pull out a bad tooth, Lotta would rather pull it herself and spend the money elsewhere.
- Reprints
- in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #14 (October 1967)
-
The Sleepwalker
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aha! Just as I suspected, Lottie! Raiding the refrigerator!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Lottie Plump; pedestrians; motorist; policeman; firefighters
- Synopsis
- Lotta sleepwalks all over town, dreaming that she is protecting a sleepwalking Lottie.
- Reprints
- in Little Lotta Foodland (Harvey, 1963 series) #23 (August 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 10, October 2020.
The Homeless Kitten
text story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Katy was a kitten... the cuddliest little kitten you ever did see.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Katy; young girl
- Synopsis
- Katy the homeless kitten dreams of a fancy home, but when she is adopted by a poor young woman she realizes that it's love that matters.
- Reprints
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #47 (November 1954)
-
The Terrible Tiger
text story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Every animal in the jungle feared Tony, the terrible tiger.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tony; Chester Chipmunk; Leo; Ernest; Squeaky Squirrel; Monroe
- Synopsis
- When the other jungle animals try to figure out how to deal with Tony the ferocious tiger, Monroe the monkey suggests making friends with him.
- Reprints
- from Little Lotta (Harvey, 1955 series) #19 (December 1958) which is reprinted
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #46 (October 1954)
-
Hill-Billy Cousins
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, Dad! I've been invited to visit Cousin Tolliver in the Smokey Mountains!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich; train conductor; Tolliver; Tolliver's family; Luke; Buddy; Mr. Beanhill
- Synopsis
- Richie visits his "hillbilly" cousins.
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 10, October 2020.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta -
1.
["Look out! Tsk... can't reach it!"]
Little Lotta -
2.
The She Monster
Little Lotta -
3.
["Brutus will be mad if you try to make me go to bed!"]
Bobbie the Baby Sitter -
4.
["Before you proceed to paint that flagpole, I have a suggestion, Jerry!"]
Jerry the Jinx -
5.
Nothing But the Tooth
Little Lotta -
6.
The Sleepwalker
Little Lotta -
7.
The Homeless Kitten
-
8.
The Terrible Tiger
-
9.
Hill-Billy Cousins
Richie Rich
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- CTGarry
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- Mike Nielsen
- Craig Richardson
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