The Adventures of Little Archie #22

(Spring 1962)

Martians' Return (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Bolling

Pencils:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bob Bolling

Content Information

Genre:

humor; fantasy; science fiction

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Abercrombie; Stitch; Grizbik

Synopsis:

Abercrombie and Stitch, the Martians, return to Earth in a rocket ship cleverly disguised as a shooting star. While they inspect Little Archie's house to learn more about earth food, they give Little Archie a present: the Grizbik, a bearded, gibberish-spouting creature who exists only to make things neat and tidy. But the Grizbik's presence has one unfortunate side effect.

Indexer Notes

Second and last appearance of Abercrombie and Stitch, originally introduced in "Little Archie On Mars" (Little Archie # 18).

Lawbreaker (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Bolling

Pencils:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bob Bolling

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Ambrose Pipps; Little Dilton Doiley

Synopsis:

Little Archie plays traffic cop, and starts making up all kinds of arbitrary new laws to put his friends in "jail." Then he transforms the jail into a police vehicle to chase after a speeding go-kart driven by Ambrose.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #220 (September 2011)

The Wright Brothers (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction; history

Synopsis:

Article on the Wright brothers.

Little Archie and the Wishing Witch (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Bolling

Pencils:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bob Bolling

Content Information

Genre:

humor; fantasy

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy; Little Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Wishing Witch

Synopsis:

Little Archie is assigned to attract a bird to Miss Grundy's bird-feeding platform. An eccentric witch who lives at the library gives him a magical book with instructions on how to attract the most unusual bird the school has ever seen: a prehistoric pterodactyl.

Indexer Notes

The witch says that she was studying to become a TV quiz show contestant, but there are "no more big time TV quiz shows." This is a reference to the fact that most prime-time game shows had been canceled in the wake of the quiz-show scandals of the late '50s.

Money Talk! (Table of Contents)

Shrimpy / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Harold

Pencils:

Joe Harold

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Shrimpy

Synopsis:

Shrimpy finds a dollar.

Tell The Tooth (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Detective O'Hara; George; un-named woman

Synopsis:

When Little Archie puts a tooth under his pillow, "Tooth Fairy" Fred has to go out in the snow to borrow some change.

Movie Madness (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; un-named babysitter; un-named ticket taker; un-named projectionist; un-named candy counter woman

Synopsis:

Fred and Mary go to the movies and leave Little Archie with a babysitter, but he sneaks out of the house, stows away in their car, and changes the program at the movie theatre.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Archie... Archie Andrews Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #2 (May 1977)

Indexer Notes

One of the most elaborate of Taylor's many pantomime stories: there is no dialogue in this entire story until the final panel.

Spotty Strikes Back (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Spotty; Caramel

Synopsis:

After Spotty chases Caramel up a tree, Betty forces Little Archie to help her cat get down.

Indexer Notes

Reprinted in 2007 in "Little Archie: The House That Wouldn't Move" (where it was mistakenly credited to Bob Bolling).

Turnabout Tale (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Evelyn Evernever; Beefy Brawnson; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; un-named boy; Mr. Rabbit; little rabbit

Synopsis:

A rabbit tells his son the story of a group of humans who discovered the truth about rabbit's feet: they're not lucky.

Close the Door! (Table of Contents)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Edwards

Pencils:

Joe Edwards

Inks:

Joe Edwards

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Edwards

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Merry Holliday

Synopsis:

Li'l Jinx keeps forgetting to close doors.

Indexer Notes

Though officially named Hap, Li'l Jinx's dad is addressed as "Bill" in this story.

One For the Book (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy

Synopsis:

Little Archie borrows a book from Miss Grundy.

Nothing But the Tooth (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; un-named Mayor; un-named beaver

Synopsis:

Little Archie brings a pet beaver to school.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction; history

Synopsis:

Article on the inventor of microscopes.

Caramel Has a Tale (Table of Contents)

Caramel / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Bolling

Pencils:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks:

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bob Bolling

Content Information

Genre:

drama; fantasy

Characters:

Caramel; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Taffy; Honey; Cocoa; un-named adults; un-named little girl

Synopsis:

When Betty and Ronnie comment on how lazy Betty's cat Caramel is, Caramel reveals that she has the ability to talk to them (but only while they're still small children). Caramel tells them the story of her life: she had three kittens and lived with them in an old abandoned house. When the house was destroyed, the four cats set off on a journey across America, where Caramel found homes for each of her children -- and almost lost her own life in the process.

Indexer Notes

As Caramel promises in the story itself, this is the only time Caramel ever talks to anyone.

The story is also an example of how Bolling changed the designs depending on the type of story: while the girls are drawn in a cartoony style, Caramel is drawn more realistically than usual, and the adults are drawn in a realistic style.