Little Lotta #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLittle Lotta #3 is an early chapter in the self-titled solo run that Harvey Comics launched in late 1955 to capitalize on the character's growing popularity as a backup feature — confirming that a fat, super-strong girl with a comedy-driven premise could anchor her own long-running title rather than serve merely as a supporting player. The issue showcases the formula that would sustain the series for 120 issues over two decades: Lotta's appetite and strength are simultaneously the source of physical comedy and the engine of the plot, a pairing unusual enough in mid-1950s children's comics to stand apart from the era's more passive heroines. By including recurring backup characters such as Richie Rich, Jerry the Jinx, and Bobbie the Baby Sitter, the issue also exemplifies the cross-pollination strategy Harvey used to build a shared fictional universe — one that would later make Richie Rich a franchise of his own.
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Little Lotta Plump debuted in September 1953 as a back-page feature in Little Dot #1, the same issue that introduced Richie Rich, under the creative direction of writer-artist Warren Kremer, who served as Harvey's art director and whose animation-influenced design sensibility shaped the look of the entire line. Kremer, joined by writer Howard Post and artists Sid Couchey and Dom Sileo, developed Lotta's core formula — superhuman strength derived from a ravenous appetite — and carried it through her solo title, which launched in November 1955; issue #3 arrived just four months into that run, still deep in the character's early world-building phase. The cover of #3, like virtually all early issues in the series, was drawn by Kremer himself, whose bold graphic compositions became a defining visual signature of Harvey's children's output throughout the Silver Age.
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- Published March 1956 (cover date) by Harvey Comics — the third issue of the Little Lotta solo series, which launched November 1955 and ran for 120 issues through March 1976.
- Cover art by Warren Kremer, Harvey's art director and the principal creative architect of the 'Harvey Girls' lineup.
- The issue's central story involves Lotta dreaming she has eaten an entire whale — a signature example of the series' recurring gag of her appetite reaching absurd, fantastical extremes.
- Backup features include Richie Rich (in a story titled 'Yadhtrib Party'), Jerry the Jinx, and Bobbie the Baby Sitter — reflecting Harvey's practice of using Little Lotta's title as a testing and cross-promotion ground for the publisher's broader stable of characters.
- 32 pages, full color, with a cover price of ten cents — standard format for Harvey's children's line in the mid-1950s.
- Little Lotta (full name Charlotte 'Lotta' Plump) had her first appearance in Little Dot #1 (September 1953), the same debut issue as Richie Rich, before graduating to her own title.
- Lotta stories throughout the run were written by Warren Kremer and Howard Post, with interior art primarily by Sid Couchey and Dom Sileo.
- The series eventually spawned a companion title, Little Lotta in Foodland (1963–1972), built entirely around the appetite-and-strength premise that issues like #3 helped establish.
Reprints
↩ Reprints Daisy and Her Pups Comics #6 (1952), Daisy and Her Pups Comics #8 (1952)
Reprinted in Little Lotta Foodland #8 (1965), Richie Rich Funtime Comics #25152 (1975), Funny Favourites Jumbo Edition #R2442 (1982), Richie Rich Funtime Comics #R1534 (1985)
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