The Adventures of Little Archie #23

(Summer 1962)

Venus Revisited (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; science fiction

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Herbnik; Greenback Klutchum; Waldo Pinckley; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; un-named Venusians

Synopsis:

On the planet Venus, a Venusian named Herbnik invents the BaBongos, and plays music that is unacceptable to his people. He decides to leave Venus and travels to Earth, where Little Archie saves his life by getting him a drink of ammonia. Little Archie then sets up a meeting between Herbnik and the talented talent agent Mr. Greenback Klutchum, who turns Herbnik into an Earth-wide musical star. But when humans start copying Herbnik's music, Earthlings reject him in favor of musicians who look like them.

Indexer Notes

A combination of science-fiction and satire of the music business. Herbnik's musical downfall is an obvious reference to the copying of African-American music by white performers in the late '50s.

One Panel Jokes With Little Archie (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / cartoon / 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; Fred Andrews; Spotty

Synopsis:

Four one-panel cartoons.

Ga Ga Over Gary (Table of Contents)

Polly / 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 Betty Cooper; Polly Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Gary Grover; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever

Synopsis:

Betty's big sister Polly gets a date with Gary Grover, "the most popular boy in the whole junior class." To go on the date, she has to break her promise to make a dress for Betty's doll.

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Polly Cooper. She would have her own story in each of the next three issues, plus another story in Little Archie # 36. She was brought into the "big" Archie continuity in the late '80s.

Silent Stuff With Little Archie (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / cartoon / 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; Ambrose Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Spotty

Synopsis:

Four silent one-panel cartoons.

Samuel F.B. Morse (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction; history

Synopsis:

Article on the inventor of the telegraph.

Medically Speaking! (Table of Contents)

Shrimpy / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Harold

Pencils:

Joe Harold

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Shrimpy; Brando

Seeing the Light! (Table of Contents)

Shrimpy / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Harold

Pencils:

Joe Harold

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Shrimpy; Daphne

Puddle Muddle! (Table of Contents)

Shrimpy / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Harold

Pencils:

Joe Harold

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Shrimpy; Cousin Kim

Spotty Gets the Bird (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; Spotty; un-named bird; un-named cat

Synopsis:

Spotty is jealous of a bird that Little Archie adopts.

Get the Picture (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 4 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; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge

Synopsis:

The girls try to get Jughead to put on nice clothes for the school photo.

Class Picture (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Space Shot (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; Fred Andrews; Spotty

Synopsis:

Little Archie plays spaceman.

Hits and Misses (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; GaGa; Greg; Charley Hawse

Synopsis:

Everyone is nice to Li'l Jinx.

Love Thy Neighbor (Table of Contents)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 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; Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Susan Johnson

Synopsis:

A new family moves into Little Archie's neighborhood, and when Little Archie tries to help them carry their things into the house, he drives the father crazy.

Indexer Notes

First appearance of the Johnson family. Mr. Johnson was Dexter Taylor's attempt to create his own version of Mr. Wilson from "Dennis the Menace."

The Law and Hermit Harper (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Dexter Taylor

Pencils:

Dexter Taylor

Inks:

Dexter Taylor

Colors:

?

Letters:

Dexter Taylor

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Hermit Harper; un-named policemen; un-named doctor

Synopsis:

Little Archie is bitten by a dog owned by a paranoid hermit. The police need to get the man to give them his dog for a rabies test.