The Ambassador was a short-lived newspaper comic strip created by Otto Soglow, which ran from May 28, 1933, to September 2, 1934.

Soglow solved the conflict by selling Hearst a temporary, nearly-identical strip: The Ambassador.

[2] When Soglow's contract with The New Yorker expired in 1934, The Little King was able to immediately resume as a King Features Sunday strip on September 9 of that year, only a week after the final appearance in The New Yorker.

A forerunner for the King's arrival in the form of an Ambassador, the same pantomime format was employed with similar situations in the characters and gags.

Differences between the two strips were subtle, and the art style was identical.