Little Lotta #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLittle Lotta #29 (1960) sits squarely in the heart of the Silver Age run that made Lotta one of Harvey Comics' most recognizable girl characters, appearing during the very period — the early 1960s — when she began making regular crossovers with Little Dot and Little Audrey, helping cement Harvey's interconnected 'Harveyville' universe for a generation of young readers. The issue's anthology format, pairing Lotta's slapstick super-strength gags with recurring backup features like Richie Rich and Jerry the Jinx, is a textbook example of Harvey's child-friendly multi-feature comic strategy that differentiated the publisher from its superhero-focused contemporaries. Lotta herself was a quietly subversive figure for the era: a girl protagonist whose power came not from beauty or magic but from an unapologetic appetite, delivering comedy rooted in physical confidence at a time when female comic leads were rarely depicted that way. While issue #29 carries no singular first-appearance milestone, it is a representative and historically grounded artifact of Harvey's peak Silver Age output.
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The Little Lotta series launched in November 1955 after the character's 1953 debut as a backup feature in Little Dot #1 — the same issue that introduced Richie Rich — proved popular enough to warrant a solo title. By issue #29, the creative team of writers Warren Kremer and Howard Post, with interior art predominantly by Sid Couchey and Howie Post, was firmly established as the engine driving Lotta's world. Covers across the series were handled by Warren Kremer, whose clean, appealing style defined Harvey's visual identity throughout this era. Issue #29 was part of Harvey's bimonthly Silver Age schedule, a high-output period during which the publisher released four to six Little Lotta issues annually to meet steady newsstand demand.
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- Published April/May 1960 by Harvey Comics (on-sale and cover dates differ slightly by source); issue #29 in the first and only solo Little Lotta series, which ran 120 issues from November 1955 through March 1976.
- Cover by Warren Kremer; interior stories and art credited to Sid Couchey and Howie (Howard) Post — the core creative team for the series throughout its Silver Age run.
- 32-page, full-color issue in the standard Harvey anthology format, featuring multiple short stories across several recurring characters.
- Confirmed story titles include 'The Big Top' (Lotta goes to the circus), a Pee-Wee story in which Lotta's strength lets her defy physics with an impossible swing, 'Bobbie the Baby Sitter,' 'Jerry the Jinx,' and a Richie Rich backup story titled 'Way Out West.'
- Additional filler features include 'Sh-h-hush!,' 'The Mars the Merrier,' 'Snowball Maneuver,' and 'The Forgetful Elephant,' illustrating Harvey's practice of padding issues with humorous single-page or short prose and cartoon filler.
- Richie Rich's presence as a recurring backup in Little Lotta by this point reflects his growing importance at Harvey — he would eventually eclipse Lotta and other 'Harvey Girls' entirely and take over the publisher's publishing slate by the mid-1970s.
- Issue #29 falls at the start of the era when Lotta began making regular crossovers with Little Dot and Little Audrey, a narrative trend that defined Harvey's shared universe structure through the 1960s.
- The character's solo title eventually spawned one spin-off, Little Lotta Foodland (1963–1972, 29 issues), and a 1992 reprint series that ran just four issues — situating issue #29 well within the original run's most active and creatively consistent stretch.
Reprints
↩ Reprints Spooky #19 (1958), Spooky #29 (1959)
Reprinted in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #5 (1964), Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #10 (1965), Little Lotta Foodland #23 (1970)
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