(December 1968)
Harvey,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-09-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Giant Size Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited); ? (actual)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich Millions / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a forbidding place the moon must be, Richie!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich; astronauts
- Synopsis
- Richie helps make astronauts' visits to the moon a bit more comfortable.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That certainly was a terrible rain we had, Richie!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Gloria Glad; gardeners
- Synopsis
- The Rich estate gardeners dry out piles of money after the basement floods.
- Reprints
-
in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973) - in Richie Rich Vaults of Mystery (Harvey, 1975 series) #21 (March 1978)
-
Flying Saucers Have Landed
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Bascomb; Mr. Print; Max Grant; Lieutenant Baud; Saturnian General
- Synopsis
- Richie witnesses a flying saucer and hires a reporter who also saw it to investigate.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973)
- in Richie Rich Vaults of Mystery (Harvey, 1975 series) #21 (March 1978)
-
- Keywords
- alien; flying saucer; UFO
Indexer Notes
Continues in "One Against Saturn", immediately following in this issue.
One Against Saturn
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Mr. Print; Colonel Nguh [Max Grant]; elderly woman; cab driver; Saturnian; helicopter pilot; Emperor Ahn; Saturnian scientists
- Synopsis
- Richie uses a camera to prevent a Saturnian invasion of Earth.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973)
- in Richie Rich Vaults of Mystery (Harvey, 1975 series) #21 (March 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Flying Saucers Have Landed", immediately preceding in this issue.
Butler of Tomorrow
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Casper (on comic book in story)
- Synopsis
- Richie imagines what Butlers will be like in the year 2084.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973)
- in Richie Rich Vaults of Mystery (Harvey, 1975 series) #21 (March 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Richie is reading a comic book about Casper the Friendly Ghost in this story.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mom, are you going to have breakfast with me?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich
- Synopsis
- Richie is worried when he hears a loud thud from the room where his mother is exercising.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973)
-
Little Dot and the Magic Foam
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mrs. Polka; Mr. Polka; Peter E. Disch; motorists; homeless family; police officers
- Synopsis
- Dot gets some magic foam from the pharmacist that forms into a dashing but criminal version of her father.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Fortunes (Harvey, 1971 series) #13 (November 1973)
- in Richie Rich Vaults of Mystery (Harvey, 1975 series) #21 (March 1978)
-
Man of Mystery
Richie Rich / text story / 1.5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Warren Kremer ?
- Inks
- Warren Kremer ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset; ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Richie was sitting in his Dad's den, reading, when there came a tapping at the French doors leading to the side garden...
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Pee Wee Friendly; Shorty; Crawfish Creech; government agents
- Synopsis
- Richie is duped into hiding a fugitive in the mansion, but Richie and his friends capture the crook by using one of their football plays.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #23 (May 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations.
The Initiation
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Clytemnestra; Rosebud club members; Jack; bully; pedestrians
- Synopsis
- Lotta wants to join the Rosebud club, but must first pass the initiation, during which she must keep her cool no matter what happens.
Indexer Notes
This story should not be confused with another that is also titled "The Initiation" and features Little Lotta attempting to join the Centipedes club. That story appears in Richie Rich (1960 series) #13, Richie Rich Dollars and Cents (1963 series) #12 and Richie Rich Inventions (1977 series) #5.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Ted! What's up?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Ted
- Synopsis
- Ted tries to use his karate moves on Lotta.
[no title indexed]
Little Dot / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh!" "Sorry!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; unnamed boy
- Synopsis
- Dot boxes with a boy.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our Nurse Jenny has been so fidgety and anxious lately!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; Nurse Jenny
- Synopsis
- Nurse Jenny becomes bored with nobody for whom to care.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
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Crash Landing
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Cadbury; Captain Carson; Bull Dolan; Chef Pierre; Mr. Quagmire; President Belden; unnamed boy; Mr. Malfor
- Synopsis
- Richie's new atomic jet makes a forced landing on a small communist ruled island.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Part One of Three. Story continues in "Making Friends", later in this issue.
Art ID by Chris Barat, from newsandviewsbychrisbarat.blogspot.com
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll choose you to see who rows, Reggie!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; antique dealer
- Synopsis
- Richie and Reggie follow a map to Captain Kidd's treasure chest.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
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Making Friends
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Mr. Quagmire; President Belden; Mr. Malfor; Port Atlantic Island citizens; soldiers; airplane steward; Freckles Friendly; Gloria Glad; Pee Wee Friendly; Captain Carson; Bull Dolan
- Synopsis
- Richie helps the inhabitants of the island build a dam so they can raise crops.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Part Two of Three. Continues from "Crash Landing", earlier in this issue, and continues in "Turnabout", immediately following in this issue.
Turnabout
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Captain Carson; Bull Dolan; President Belden; Port Atlantic Island citizens; airplane steward; Wallace; Mr. Quagmire; Mr. Malfor; judge
- Synopsis
- The communist rebels attempt to blow-up the new dam.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Conclusion of three part story. Continues from "Making Friends", immediately preceding in this issue.
A Look Ahead
Little Dot / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Fyuchura; telephone operator; butler
- Synopsis
- Dot and Lotta travel forward in time so they can see what they're going to look like in the future.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
-
Speedy Hobbies
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mrs. Polka; Uncle Rush; police officer
- Synopsis
- Uncle Rush tries to show an interest in Dot's hobbies.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich -
1.
["What a forbidding place the moon must be, Richie!"]
Richie Rich Millions -
2.
["That certainly was a terrible rain we had, Richie!"]
Richie Rich -
3.
Flying Saucers Have Landed
Richie Rich -
4.
One Against Saturn
Richie Rich -
5.
Butler of Tomorrow
Richie Rich -
6.
["Mom, are you going to have breakfast with me?"]
Richie Rich -
7.
Little Dot and the Magic Foam
Little Dot -
8.
Man of Mystery
Richie Rich -
9.
The Initiation
Little Lotta -
10.
["Hi, Ted! What's up?"]
Little Lotta -
11.
["Oh!" "Sorry!"]
Little Dot -
12.
["Our Nurse Jenny has been so fidgety and anxious lately!"]
Richie Rich -
13.
Crash Landing
Richie Rich -
14.
["I'll choose you to see who rows, Reggie!"]
Richie Rich -
15.
Making Friends
Richie Rich -
16.
Turnabout
Richie Rich -
17.
A Look Ahead
Little Dot -
18.
Speedy Hobbies
Little Dot
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Mike Nielsen
- Craig Richardson
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