The Adventures of Little Archie #31 [Canadian]

Picnic (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

adventure; humor; fantasy-supernatural; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Granny Sage

Synopsis

Little Archie, Betty and Veronica go for a picnic in the Hockomock Swamps, near the home of the local hermit, Granny Sage. They discover why Granny never comes out of her house: there's a giant, man-eating turtle living in the swamp.

Reprints

• in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #31 (1977)
• in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #88 (November 2004)

Attack of the Ice Mice (Table of Contents: 2)

Little Archie / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

adventure; humor; fantasy-supernatural; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; un-named Captain; un-named sailor; un-named driver

Synopsis

In Mad Doctor Doom's latest plan for world domination, he gets the help of the Ice Mice, a rare group of Arctic mice whose frozen breath can form a wall of ice that's thick enough to stop any bullet. He and Chester bring the mice to Riverdale, and try to use them to steal the Rare Ruby Rooster from the Humble Home Bank. But fate once again intervenes to put Little Archie in Doom's way: when Chester steals a silver fox tail from a bike to spruce up his car, that bike belongs to Little Archie's pal Jughead.

Reprints

• in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #8 (November 1978)
• in Little Archie Digest Magazine (Archie, 1991 series) #14 (August 1995)

Indexer Notes

The newspaper story about the Rare Ruby Rooster mentions the "outbreak of the Prune Fungus." The nonexistent disease "Prune Fungus" is a recurring gag in Bolling's stories.

Flight of the Penny Black (Table of Contents: 3)

Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason

Synopsis

When Fred is looking over his stamp collection, an antique envelope with a rare "Penny Black" stamp is carried out the window by a strong wind. The boys put the envelope on Little Archie's model plane, and the "capricious" spring breeze keeps the plane in the air despite Fred's efforts to get it down.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #3 (1978)

Indexer Notes

An example of Bolling's mystical side: a slapstick story is given a fantasy twist through captions and images that seem to suggest that the wind has a mind of its own.

Two of Bolling's own hobbies, stamp collecting and model planes, are referred to in this story.

The Missing Mouse (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

To get Little Archie to come over, Veronica pretends there's a mouse in the house.

A Friend In Need (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Al; George

Synopsis

To avoid getting a bath, Spotty runs off without his collar and is captured by dogcatchers. To get back to Little Archie, Spotty tries to make a seemingly-impossible escape from the dog pound.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #35 (April 1979)

Never Too Old (Table of Contents: 6)

Little Archie's Teachers / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

drama; humor

Characters

Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Archie Andrews

Synopsis

While looking for supplies in the storeroom, Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy overhear the children chanting derogatory rhymes about her clothes and his toupee.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #3 (1978) [with "Teachers Are Never Too Old" title]

The Texas Longhorn (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #19 (November 1978)

A Top Story (Table of Contents: 8)

Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Little Archie likes Veronica because she's so bad at top-spinning, instead of Betty, who's too good at it.

Indexer Notes

One of the first examples of Taylor making the kids act more like their teenage counterparts, with Archie being romantically interested in Veronica as in the "big" Archie comics. Taylor told Gary Brown (in Comic Book Artist, March 2004) that this was in response to requests from the editors: "They wanted a love interest like the Archie characters. You know, Betty likes Archie, but he always goes for Veronica. That's what they wanted. I mean, the editor said, I know little boys don't necessarily like little girls, but the readers want that."

Viewpoint (Table of Contents: 9)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Greg

Synopsis

Li'l Jinx draws a cartoon.

Grooming Your Dog (Table of Contents: 10)

text article / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

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Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

The Lucky Coin (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Major; Ringer; un-named adults

Synopsis

At the circus, Little Archie's wallet is stolen and with it, his lucky coin. He and Jughead discover that the pickpocket actually works for the owner of the circus.

Reprints

• in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #121 (June 2006)
• in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #13 (August 2015)

Keywords

circus