Little Lotta #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLittle Lotta #2 (February 1956) is one of the earliest installments of Harvey Comics' first ongoing title built entirely around Lotta Plump, a character whose combination of superhuman strength and an insatiable appetite gave Harvey a genuinely original comedic premise at the dawn of the Silver Age. The issue also continued the practice — established from issue #1 — of co-starring Richie Rich in backup stories, cementing the cross-pollination strategy that would define Harvey's entire publishing universe for two decades. As one of the first few issues to feature cover art by Warren Kremer, who would become the visual architect of virtually the entire Harvey line, it sits at the creative ground floor of that house style. The series itself ran 120 issues through 1976, making these early numbers foundational documents of Harvey's child-humor empire.
In "Ride 'em Cowboy," Richie Rich finds himself in Hollywood, where his innocent bike ride through a movie lot turns into a series of chaotic mishaps, disrupting scene after scene with his unexpected presence. The story captures the classic humor of the era, blending slapstick chaos with the star-studded backdrop of a working film set.
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Little Lotta Plump debuted in 1953 as a back-page feature in Little Dot #1 — the same issue that introduced Richie Rich — before graduating to her own title in November 1955. Stories in the series were written by Warren Kremer and Howard Post, with interior art carried primarily by Sid Couchey and Dom Sileo across the title's long run. Kremer, Harvey's art director, also supplied the covers; MyComicShop records confirm that by issue #2 the covers had transitioned from Steve Muffatti (who handled #1) to Kremer, whose bright, gag-driven style would define the look of Harvey's humor line for years. The series was published under the Comics Code Authority seal and carried a ten-cent cover price standard for the era.
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- Cover art by Warren Kremer — one of his earliest covers on the series, marking the transition from Steve Muffatti, who drew the inaugural issue's cover.
- Features Little Lotta (full name: Lotta Plump), whose defining trait is a superhuman appetite that produces superhuman strength — a comedic premise running through virtually every story.
- Contains backup features for Jerry the Jinx and Bobbie the Baby Sitter, two recurring Harvey short-comedy strips that appeared throughout the early run.
- Includes a Richie Rich backup story ('Yadhtrib Party' — a backwards-birthday gag), consistent with the series' practice of co-starring Richie Rich in every issue.
- Little Lotta herself had first appeared three years earlier as a back-page feature in Little Dot #1 (September 1953), the same issue that also debuted Richie Rich.
- The Little Lotta series ran for 120 issues (November 1955–March 1976); a planned issue #121 was advertised but never published.
- A four-issue reprint series launched in 1992 drew from the original run, attesting to the enduring appeal of the early Silver Age issues.
Reprints
↩ Reprints Paramount Animated Comics #5 (1953), Little Dot #3 (1954), Little Dot #4 (1954)
Reprinted in Hot Stuff, the Little Devil #27 (1960), Little Lotta Foodland #8 (1965)
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