| Issue | #494 |
| Published | September 1953 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "THE LITTLE KING, No.494". Code number is L.K.O.S. #494-539. Copyright 1953 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. First of three Little King Four Colors. Cover is signed "O.Soglow" but may or may not be by him. Based on "The Little King" newspaper strip. However in the Four Colors the Little King speaks, in the newspaper strips he is always silent. |
| Characters | The Little King |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Otto Soglow ? |
| Inks | Otto Soglow ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "THE LITTLE KING, No.494". Code number is L.K.O.S. #494-539. Copyright 1953 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. First of three Little King Four Colors. Cover is signed "O.Soglow" but may or may not be by him. Based on "The Little King" newspaper strip. However in the Four Colors the Little King speaks, in the newspaper strips he is always silent. |
| Characters | The Little King |
| Synopsis | When the new airplane won't fly, the Little King designs one that will. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | John Stanley ? |
| Pencils | John Stanley ? |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. |
| Characters | The Little King; Prime Minister |
| Synopsis | The Little King befriends a young boy named Kit and takes him along on his official duties one morning. Tired of all his official duties, the Little King abdicates and names Kit as his successor. After thieves steal the gold in the royal treasury, King Kit declares jelly beans as the currency of the country. Meanwhile, the Little King has had a hard time roaming the country as a hobo. He happens upon the thieves who stole the gold and spoils their plan to blow up the castle and the new King. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | John Stanley ? |
| Pencils | John Stanley ? |
| Characters | The Little King; Prime Minister |
| Synopsis | The Little King goes to his mountain lodge, only to find that it has been taken over by the Junior Forest Rangers. The Rangers don't believe he is the King and he has to pass the qualifying tests in order to become a Junior Forest Ranger and stay in the lodge. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | John Stanley ? |
| Pencils | John Stanley ? |
| Characters | The Little King; Prime Minister |
| Synopsis | The Little King shows home movies of the court dozing while on duty, but everyone falls asleep during the showing. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | John Stanley ? |
| Pencils | John Stanley ? |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. |
| Characters | The Little King |
| Synopsis | The Little King interrupts a review of the Army in order to go upstairs and play with his toy soldiers. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | John Stanley ? |
| Pencils | John Stanley ? |
| Notes | Back cover; color; pantomime story. |