Little Archie
#169
(August 1981)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-06-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000696808
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick ? (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Dexter Taylor ? (signed)
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor (signed)
- Inks
- Dexter Taylor ? (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dexter Taylor ? (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now I know why the Little Archies call this the big beat!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- The Little Archies [Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones]; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Pop Tate
- Reprints
- Keywords
- dance
in 
Growling Grizzlies
Hostess Fruit Pies; Sabrina / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Hilda
- Synopsis
- Sabrina and Aunt Hilda distract bears from campers with Hostess Fruit Pies.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Hostess Fruit Pies. Copyright © 1981 Continental Baking Company.
Lettering credit based on the distinctive look of Yoshida's G and A.
Test Pest
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Reggie cheats on a test by copying Archie's answers, but Miss Grundy was prepared for that and catches him anyway.
- Reprints
-
in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #21 (July 1986) - in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #68 (July 2000)
-
More or Less!
Mort / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Mort; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Mort is depressed that he'll never amount to anything.
Indexer Notes
"A fashion thank you to: Amy Hamper, Sandwich, Ill."
[no title indexed]
Little Archie's Fan Club / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Nancy Bryant, Amber Young, and Shelley Graves
Page is hand-lettered, not typeset; also includes drawings of the letter writers from photographs they submitted with their letters.
Lettering credit based on the distinctive shape of Yoshida's G and A letters.
Date Bait
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Smithers (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Little Jughead asks Betty on a date, but he really wants her to go on a quiz show with him to help him win big prizes.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #21 (July 1986), #25 (July 1987)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #59 (June 1999), #128 (April 2007)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #25 (April 2017)
-
- Keywords
- quiz show
The Magic Treat
Little Sabrina / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Little Sabrina Spellman; Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Miss Beazly; Mr. Weatherbee (cameo); Miss Grundy (cameo); Smithers (cameo)
- Synopsis
- When Veronica won't invite Jughead to her party because he eats too much, Sabrina tries to help by casting a spell that makes Juggie completely lose his appetite. However, this causes several unforeseen problems and she has to undo the spell.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Little Archie's Mail Board / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Synopsis
- Art and letters submitted by Rhonda Lee Zandstra, Brian Meager, Heather McKinnon, Jenny Bernstein, Karalia Dorion, Amy Lewis, Vikki Mak, Mary Kay Albowicz, Shannon Gilliam, and Mindy Berger.
Indexer Notes
Page is hand-lettered, not typeset. Bill Yoshida credit based on the distinctive shape of the letter A (very wide with a very low crossbar).
The Chow Horse
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Dexter Taylor
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Little Veronica Lodge (dream sequence); Little Betty Cooper (dream sequence); Miss Grundy (dream sequence)
- Synopsis
- Annoyed that Mary invited Jughead to dinner, Fred dreams that Juggie is a centaur with an enormous appetite.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #102 (September 1998)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #19 (April 2016)
-
- Keywords
- centaur
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Now I know why the Little Archies call this the big beat!"]
Little Archie -
1.
Growling Grizzlies
Hostess Fruit Pies; Sabrina -
2.
Test Pest
Little Archie -
3.
More or Less!
Mort -
4.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie's Fan Club -
5.
Date Bait
Little Archie -
6.
The Magic Treat
Little Sabrina -
7.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie's Mail Board -
8.
The Chow Horse
Little Archie
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