"The King's Vacation" had its world premiere January 19, 1933 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It was the second film ever to play at the Music Hall, the first having been "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" a week earlier.
The cartoon panels used on the posters and prints ads were frames from The Little King by Otto Soglow(1900-1975), an American cartoonist. The strip was seen in the New Yorker magazine and was also offered to newspapers, as a Sunday color-strip via Hearst Publications' King Features Syndicate...and was also seen in the David McKay Publications monthly reprint comic book King Comics. Other King Features Syndicate strips , seen in King Comics, included Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Thimble Theatre( Popeye), Radio Patrol. Henry, The Lone Ranger, Little Annie Rooney and Mandrake the Magician.
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