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Issue Details

Issue #485
Published August 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE LITTLE PEOPLE, No. 485." Code number is L.P.O.S. #485-538. Copyright 1953 by NEA Service, Inc. Based on the newspaper comic strip "The Little People" by Walt Scott. First of ten Little People Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters The Little People [Chub; Loop; Jink; Cork; Old One]
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page The Little People story "Shoe-boat"

Characters The Little People [Loop; Jink; Old One]
Synopsis Loop uses an old slipper for shade when it's sunny and then as a boat when it rains.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

20 page The Little People story "The Little People and the Sick Fawn"

Characters The Little People [Chub; Loop; Jink; Cork; Old One]; Tar (crow); Groons (villains)
Synopsis When Mrs. Doe's fawn is sick, the Little People must go to the cave of their enemies, the Groons, to bring back yop-yop leaves to make a medicine to cure the fawn.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

12 page The Little People story "The Little People's Carnival"

Characters The Little People [Chub; Loop; Jink; Cork; Old One]
Synopsis The Little People are putting on a carnival, but there doesn't seem to be anything that Loop can do to participate.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes In addition to the five main characters, many other unnamed Little People appear. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page The Little People story "Picnic Distraction"

Characters The Little People [Chub; Loop; Jink; Cork; Old One]
Synopsis The Little People set up a separate picnic for the ants so they can enjoy their own picnic in peace.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page The Little People story "Hair tonic trick"

Characters The Little People [Jink; Loop; Old One]
Synopsis Jink and Loop sell phony hair tonic to a frog, but the frog and the Old One trick them into thinking it actually works.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Back cover; color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)