Little Dot #109
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLittle Dot #109 is a representative mid-run installment of one of Harvey Comics' longest-running and most culturally durable titles — a series that, beginning with its first issue in 1953, served as the launch pad for both Richie Rich and Little Lotta and helped define Harvey's entire 'kid with a quirk' comedic universe. By 1967, the title had settled into the reliable anthology format that trained multiple generations of young readers: short, self-contained gag stories built around Dot's dot obsession, her rotating cast of eccentric relatives, and backup features spotlighting Richie Rich and Little Lotta. Its place in the Silver Age run also marks the period Wikipedia identifies as the peak of Dot's popularity, when the Harvey 'Girls' line was outselling Little Audrey and anchoring the publisher's newsstand presence. While issue #109 carries no specific documented first appearance, it is a fine example of the stable creative ecosystem — house-style covers, recurring character formulas, and anthology structure — that made Harvey Comics a dominant force in children's publishing through the late 1960s.
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The Little Dot series was conceived by Harvey Comics founder Alfred Harvey and artist Vic Herman in 1949, with Dot initially appearing as a backup filler in Sad Sack Comics before receiving her own title in September 1953, redrawn in a more distinctive style by Steve Muffatti. By the time issue #109 reached newsstands in early 1967, the series had been running for over a decade under a tightly controlled house editorial approach, with Warren Kremer providing covers across the mid-run titles and interior art duties on surrounding issues handled by Sid Couchey and others — the same core team producing Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts and the Richie Rich family of titles simultaneously. Harvey's production model at this time was largely studio-driven, with individual story credits rarely publicized on the comics themselves, making precise attribution for any single mid-run issue difficult to pin down.
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- Published by Harvey Comics in early 1967 (cover date listed as February 1967 by the Harvey Comics Database Fandom wiki; League of Comic Geeks assigns April 1967 — a typical Harvey cover-date ambiguity).
- Part of the original Little Dot Vol. 1 run, which spanned 164 issues from September 1953 through April 1976 before a seven-issue revival from 1992 to 1994.
- The series was created by Alfred Harvey (writer/publisher) and artist Vic Herman in 1949; Little Dot's self-titled run was initially drawn by Steve Muffatti beginning with issue #1 in 1953.
- Warren Kremer served as the principal cover artist across the Little Dot run in this era, and Sid Couchey provided interior story art on surrounding issues — the same creative team active on Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts and related Harvey titles simultaneously.
- The Little Dot series was historically significant as the original launchpad for Richie Rich (first appearance in Little Dot #1, 1953) and Little Lotta, both of whom appear in backup stories throughout the mid-run including issues around #109.
- Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts, a spinoff series directly rooted in the recurring eccentric-relative story format that fills issues like #109, ran for 52 issues from 1961 to 1974.
- By 1967, Little Dot was at or near the sales peak of the 'Harvey Girls' line, which Wikipedia notes eventually outsold Little Audrey before distribution challenges began eroding the children's comics market in the 1970s.
Reprints
↩ Reprints Chic Young's Dagwood Comics #20 (1952), Harvey Comics Hits #61 (1952)
Reprinted in Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts #32 (1970), Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts #47 (1973)
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