Little Dot #25
Little Dot #25 (September 1957) sits at the midpoint of one of the most consequential incubation periods in Harvey Comics history: the four-year stretch when Richie Rich, Little Lotta, and their supporting casts were still being developed entirely as backup features within Dot's title, three full years before Richie would graduate to his own flagship book in 1960. Every issue of Little Dot published during this window is, in effect, a chapter in the world-building of what would become the most prolific single-character franchise American comics had seen, with Richie eventually starring in over fifty separate titles. The issue also exemplifies Harvey's distinctive 'family' model of cross-character storytelling — Little Dot, Little Lotta, Richie, Freckles and Peewee Friendly, Richard Rich Sr., and Mrs. Polka all appearing under one cover — a structural choice that trained readers to follow characters across multiple titles and helped Harvey sustain its outsized share of the children's comics market through the late 1950s.
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The Little Dot series launched in September 1953 under Harvey Enterprises Inc., with Leon Harvey credited as editor (though Sid Jacobson served as the actual hands-on editor, a fact Jacobson himself confirmed publicly). The series ran bi-monthly and carried the Comics Code Authority seal by the mid-1950s. Little Dot herself had been created by Alfred Harvey and artist Vic Herman as far back as 1949, when she appeared as 'Li'l Dot' in supporting slots in titles like Sad Sack Comics, before receiving her own series. By issue #25, the book had become a reliable anthology vehicle for Harvey's growing stable of child comedy characters, with Warren Kremer and Steve Muffatti among the artists rotating through its pages, though individual story credits for this specific issue are not detailed in currently available sources.
Trivia · 8 facts
- Cover-dated September 1957; published bi-monthly by Harvey Enterprises Inc. under the Comics Code Authority seal, with Leon Harvey listed as editor in the indicia.
- Richie Rich — created by Alfred Harvey with artists Warren Kremer and/or Steve Muffatti — appears in a story whose first line of dialogue is 'There goes Richie! But, gee! He looks kinda blue!', alongside his father Richard Rich Sr.
- Richie Rich had debuted in Little Dot #1 (September 1953) and would not receive his own self-titled series until 1960, making every Little Dot issue from this era a primary venue for his character development.
- Little Lotta (Charlotte Plump) also first appeared in Little Dot #1 alongside Richie Rich in 1953; her presence in #25 reflects her ongoing role as a regular backup feature before she earned her own title (launched 1955).
- Freckles Friendly and Peewee Friendly — Richie's working-class friends introduced in Little Dot #2 (1953) — are indexed as appearing in this issue, continuing their role as foils to Richie's wealth.
- Richard Rich Sr. (Richie's industrialist father, who first appeared in Little Dot #3) appears in the Richie Rich story, one of his regular early-series appearances before the character's supporting cast expanded further in the 1960s.
- A Little Dot story from this issue featuring Mrs. Polka was later reprinted in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #11 (January 1966), demonstrating the long editorial shelf-life Harvey gave its Little Dot material.
- Little Dot was created in 1949 by Alfred Harvey and Vic Herman, first appearing as 'Li'l Dot' in Sad Sack Comics before receiving her own series in September 1953; her title would run for 164 issues across its first volume.
Cast · 8 characters
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Little Dot paints dots all over town, including on a tree, so a crook can't find the hole where he stashed the money.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).