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Issue Details

Issue #677
Published February 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE LITTLE KING, No. 677". Code number is L.K.O.S. #677-562. Copyright 1955 by King Features Syndicate. Adapted from "The Little King" newspaper strip by O. Soglow. One major change from the newspaper strip is that the Little King talks in this comic book. In the newspaper strip he is always silent.

Cover Details

Characters Little King; Prime Minister; Diplomat
Genre humor
Notes Cover is signed "O.Soglow" but he may or may not have drawn it.

1 page The Little King story "Top Secret Papers"

Characters Little King
Synopsis Bored by a diplomatic meeting, the Little King calls for his "top secret papers"--a pile of Dell comics.
Genre humor
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

11 page The Little King story "All in the Game"

Characters Little King; Prime Minister; Captain of Guards; Chef; Royal Fool (jester); King Ookle
Synopsis After the jester beats the Little King at checkers 6,206 times in a row, the King tries to figure out the jester's winning move. He is interrupted when King Ookle declares war in response to the Little King forgetting to send him a birthday card. The two Kings engage in a sword fight throughout the castle for hours, then decide to decide the battle with a game of checkers.
Genre humor
Script John Stanley
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

4 page The Little King story "The Royal Treasure"

Characters Little King; Prime Minister
Synopsis The Little King receives his weekly allowance--one dollar--which he decides to hide to save up for a bicycle.
Genre humor
Script John Stanley
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

8 page The Little King story "The Royal Ghost"

Characters Little King; Prime Minister; Chef
Synopsis The Little King buys a castle at a bargain price, only to find it comes complete with a 16th century ghost.
Genre humor
Script John Stanley
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

9 page The Little King story "The Search"

Characters Little King; Prime Minister; Chef
Synopsis After failing to find number 100 of a baseball card set in cereal boxes of Snapples, the Little King embarks on a hunt to find the final card of the set, which entitles the owner to a baseball cap and tickets to the big baseball game.
Genre humor
Script John Stanley
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page The Little King story "A Night at the Opera"

Characters Little King;
Synopsis The Little King falls asleep while attending an opera and begins to snore.
Genre humor
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is the fourth panel, right in the middle of the eight-panel story.

1 page The Little King story "Stolen Pie"

Characters Little King; Chef
Synopsis The Little King hides in a suit of armor while being chased by the Chef for stealing a pie.
Genre humor
Notes Back cover.