(June 1963)
Harvey,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-03-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Giant Size Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited); Sid Jacobson (actual)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Officer Clark!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Officer Clark; infant
- Synopsis
- Richie upsets a policeman's peaceful day with a practical joke.
- Reprints
-
in Richie Rich Success Stories (Harvey, 1964 series) #26 (June 1969)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Richie!
- Genre
- humor; children
Kidnapped!
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Master Richie, a messenger just delivered a letter for you!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Lefty; Boss
- Synopsis
- When Richie is invited to become a member of the Adventurer's Club, he thinks two kidnappers trying to abduct him are part of an initiation stunt.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (Harvey, 1963 series) #32 (September 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in "Keeping Him Comfortable", immediately following in this issue.
Keeping Him Comfortable
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't think I should stay in my pajamas for a whole week, do you?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Lefty; Boss; Richard Rich (cameo, in painting); Casper the Friendly Ghost (cameo, on comic book cover); Dot Polka [Littel Dot] (cameo, on comic book cover)
- Synopsis
- Following the instructions in a how-to book, two inexperienced kidnappers go to great pains to keep Richie happy and comfortable while they await their ransom money.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (Harvey, 1963 series) #32 (September 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Kidnapped!", immediately preceding in this issue, and continues in "Much Too Exciting", immediately following in this issue.
Much Too Exciting
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now that I have Cadbury here, I'll confess I know very well that you are members of the Adventurer's Club and you're initiating me with this fake kidnapping! Ha ha!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Lefty; Boss; Richard Rich (cameo, in painting); estate guards; Adventurer's Club members
- Synopsis
- Richie reveals to his kidnappers that he thinks they are giving him an initiation to the Adventurer's Club, so the kidnappers play along.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (Harvey, 1963 series) #32 (September 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Keeping Him Comfortable", immediately preceding in this issue.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Baw! You bring that back!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; boy; bully
- Synopsis
- When a bully removes a boy's treehouse, Lotta helps him put it back.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (Harvey, 1963 series) #32 (September 1969)
-
Little Dot Has a Daydream
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly! Everywhere you look, bad things are happening!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; talking frog; fighting boys; gunslingers; J.B.; J.B.'s employee; panicked zoo patrons; zookeeper; Hubert the gorilla; Mrs. Polka
- Synopsis
- Dot daydreams that a talking frog takes her to a magic polka-dot land, where she gains the ability to use dots to make fighting people love each other.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (Harvey, 1963 series) #32 (September 1969)
-
The Friendly Dragon
text story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dexter was a dragon... a baby dragon, to be exact.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dexter the Dragon; Dexter's mother; Dexter's father; king; townspeople; princess
- Synopsis
- Dexter wants to be friendly, not scary and ferocious, as dragons are supposed to be. But because everyone is afraid of dragons, he never has a chance to make any friends, until he helps a lost princess.
- Reprints
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #42 (May 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
The dragon in this story faces challenges similar to that of Casper, the Friendly Ghost.
[no title indexed]
Wendy the Good Little Witch / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All witches are both good and bad...
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
House ad for Wendy comics
Not So Sweet
text story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Now Johnny," Mrs. Davis was telling her son, "I want you to take these two dollars and get a big box of candy at the candy shop."
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Mrs. Davis; Johnny Davis; Peter
- Synopsis
- Johnny runs an errand for his mother to buy a box of candy as a gift. But his younger cousin Peter ends up eating all the candy on the way home.
- Reprints
- from Little Lotta (Harvey, 1955 series) #5 (July 1956) which is reprinted
- from Sad Sack Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #32 (March 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have a big problem- I'm making too much money-
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
House ad for Richie Rich comics
Tidy, All Rightie
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Mrs. Plump; elderly pedestrian; Mr. Plump; trash collectors
- Synopsis
- Lotta cleans the whole house by over-stuffing boxes with the items to be discarded.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Success Stories (Harvey, 1964 series) #26 (June 1969)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Dot / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's take a walk, Dot!
- Genre
- humor; children
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, girls, now that I've shown you how...
- Genre
- humor; children
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's dad's birthday today-
- Genre
- humor; children
First Date
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Regina Rich; Gloria Glad (reprint of first appearance); Mr. Glad (reprint of first appearance); flower delivery man; candy delivery man; doll delivery man
- Synopsis
- Richie goes on his first date, bringing his new girlfriend Gloria every flower in the florist shop. The next day he showers her with an overabundance of candy and dolls as well. Gloria's father becomes concerned with so many gifts filling up the house, especially when he hears Gloria tell Richie that she likes pets too. Gloria assures her father that Richie is only giving her one pet, but even so, Richie manages to go overboard.
- Reprints
- from Little Dot (Harvey, 1953 series) #33 (May 1958)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do those windows, dear-
- Genre
- humor; children
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You know, Dear, Richie is growing up too soft! No drive! No ambition!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Regina Rich; Jarvis
- Synopsis
- Richie's father tells stories of his own hard-working youth in order to instill Richie with ambition.
All Aboard!
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- from Little Dot (Harvey, 1953 series) #34 (June 1958)
-
[no title indexed]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come play with us -- be a friend
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
House ad for Casper and Company TV show
[no title indexed]
Stumbo the Giant / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, little friends!
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Keywords
- House ad for Stumbo the Giant comics
The Shade Tree
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Reprints
- from Hot Stuff, the Little Devil (Harvey, 1957 series) #8 (December 1958) which is reprinted
- from Blondie Comics Monthly (Harvey, 1950 series) #43 (June 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Sad Sack / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm loaded with work!
- Genre
- humor; military
Indexer Notes
House ad for Sad Sack comics
The Sissy
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- from Blondie Comics Monthly (Harvey, 1950 series) #43 (June 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I love reading about Casper, in his Harvey Comics magazine!
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
House ad for Casper comics
Who's News
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Pee Wee Friendly; marble championship competitors and spectators; marble champion; newspaper readers; O. U. Crabbe; unnamed doorman; unnamed helicopter pilot; unnamed burglar; unnamed police officer; unnamed press club representative
- Synopsis
- Richie and his pals try their hand at producing their own newspaper and end up getting a coveted interview a crabby and reclusive business mogul.
- Reprints
- from Little Dot (Harvey, 1953 series) #35 (July 1958)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich -
1.
["Hello, Officer Clark!"]
Richie Rich -
2.
["Oh, Richie!"]
Richie Rich -
3.
Kidnapped!
Richie Rich -
4.
Keeping Him Comfortable
Richie Rich -
5.
Much Too Exciting
Richie Rich -
6.
["Baw! You bring that back!"]
Little Lotta -
7.
Little Dot Has a Daydream
Little Dot -
8.
The Friendly Dragon
-
9.
["All witches are both good and bad..."]
Wendy the Good Little Witch -
10.
Not So Sweet
-
11.
["I have a big problem- I'm making too much money-"]
Richie Rich -
12.
Tidy, All Rightie
Little Lotta -
13.
["Let's take a walk, Dot!"]
Little Dot -
14.
["Well, girls, now that I've shown you how..."]
Little Lotta -
15.
["It's dad's birthday today-"]
Richie Rich -
16.
First Date
Richie Rich -
17.
["Do those windows, dear-"]
Little Lotta -
18.
["You know, Dear, Richie is growing up too soft! No drive! No ambition!"]
Richie Rich -
19.
All Aboard!
Richie Rich -
20.
["Come play with us -- be a friend"]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
21.
["Hello, little friends!"]
Stumbo the Giant -
22.
Dog-Gone
Little Lotta -
23.
The Shade Tree
-
24.
["I'm loaded with work!"]
Sad Sack -
25.
The Sissy
-
26.
["I love reading about Casper, in his Harvey Comics magazine!"]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
27.
Who's News
Richie Rich
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Craig Richardson
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