(Winter 1958)
Archie,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Little Archie Giant Comics
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
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Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Bubble Gum Blues
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps
- Synopsis
- The West Side Warriors try to get away from the "stupid girls" by turning their clubhouse into a boat. Meanwhile, the girls have taken up fortune telling and warn the boys that if they're not nice, the "good fairy" won't come to help them. The fortune comes true, but with a different spelling than the boys expected.
Sum Friend
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Moose is forbidden to pitch for the school team because of his bad grades in math.
Map Saps
Little Archie / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and Reggie hire Ambrose to create a map of the neighborhood that they can use to plot strategy against the South Side Serpents. After Ambrose turns in a beautifully-made map, they try to find a flaw in it so they can get out of paying him.
Indexer Notes
Two pages of this story are devoted to Ambrose's map, which includes many of the specific places that Bolling created for his version of Riverdale, including "Thrill Hill," "Carson's Creek," the swamp (later named the Hockomock Swamp) and the Serpents' hideout "Cobra Cave."
Taboo It May Concern
Little Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Little Archie asks Betty to a movie on Friday the 13th, and Betty goes reluctantly, worried about bad luck.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #30 (June 1978)
-
- Keywords
- Friday the 13th; superstition
The Reign Is Over
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and his friends play a game based on "The Prince and the Pauper," and Little Archie enjoys being the Prince.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #23 (July 1986)
-
Plane Advice
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- After Fred helps Little Archie with his model plane, his boss gets the mistaken idea that Fred can fly actual planes.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #31 (August 1978)
-
Secret Talk!
Bunny and the Kids / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Bunny
- Synopsis
- Bunny gloats about knowing a secret.
Reptiles of Yesterday
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #7 (November 1976)
-
Hit and Miss!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Greg throws snowballs at Li'l Jinx.
For Friendship's Ache
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Little Archie tries to talk Moose out of beating up Jughead.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #47 (March 1991)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #12 (July 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from the printing in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #12.
Art Antics
Little Reggie / comic story / 0.7 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Reggie Mantle; Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Reggie is chosen by Miss Grundy to help decorate the gym.
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Little Ambrose / comic story / 0.3 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here comes Secretary Ambrose!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Ambrose is club Secretary even though he can't write.
Sweet Talk
Little Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty won't give Jughead a piece of candy unless he says nice things about her.
[The Great Apes]
Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature; animal; math & science
- Reprints
Film Fun
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Director Little Archie shoots a Western film with Ronnie as the leading lady.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #21 (July 1986)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #229 (July 2012)
-
The World's Largest Mammal
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature
- Synopsis
- An introduction to various whales.
Keep 'Em Flying
Little Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Little Archie makes a kite tail out of his father's ties.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #244 (July 2008)
-
Ride or Wrong
Little Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Jughead Jones; Little Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Jughead opens a dog-walking service, but charges half price on big dogs.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #14 (January 1985)
-
Business Forecast
Little Ambrose / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps
- Synopsis
- Ambrose opens a newsstand where he sells yesterday's papers.
American Mammals
Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature; animal; math & science
Thin Ice?
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx goes skating.
Friend or Foe
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- After his father encourages him to try harder to make friends, Little Archie goes out and befriends a squirrel, who promptly drives his father crazy.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #17 (July 1978)
-
Berry Good Friends
Little Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children; teen
- Characters
- Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Ronnie does the old Vaudeville "that's good/that's bad" phone routine, complete with the traditional punchline ("I helped her sort the strawberries").
Sports Sharpy
Little Ambrose / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Ambrose uses his dog George to help him score a touchdown against the South Side Serpents.
Business Bungle
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever
- Synopsis
- Inspired by all the advice-givers in TV and newspapers, Little Archie starts "Little Archie's Good Advice Business," offering advice to anyone who can pay him in jellybeans. All the kids are disgusted by his greed and stop liking him, except Evelyn, who becomes his secretary, and Ambrose, who Little Archie tells to "go jump in the lake." And it's that bit of advice that leads to Ambrose becoming the most popular kid on the West Side. An act of generosity by Ambrose then makes Little Archie realize that friends are more important than jellybeans any day.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #11 (April 1975)
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Indexer Notes
The first story to show a closer friendship between Little Archie and Ambrose.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Little Archie -
1.
Bubble Gum Blues
Little Archie -
2.
Sum Friend
Little Archie -
3.
Map Saps
Little Archie -
4.
Taboo It May Concern
Little Archie -
5.
The Reign Is Over
Little Archie -
6.
Plane Advice
Little Archie -
7.
Secret Talk!
Bunny and the Kids -
8.
Reptiles of Yesterday
-
9.
Hit and Miss!
Li'l Jinx -
10.
For Friendship's Ache
Little Archie -
11.
Art Antics
Little Reggie -
12.
["Here comes Secretary Ambrose!"]
Little Ambrose -
13.
Sweet Talk
Little Betty -
14.
[The Great Apes]
Nature's Notebook -
15.
Film Fun
Little Archie -
16.
The World's Largest Mammal
-
17.
Keep 'Em Flying
Little Archie -
18.
Ride or Wrong
Little Jughead -
19.
Business Forecast
Little Ambrose -
20.
American Mammals
Nature's Notebook -
21.
Thin Ice?
Li'l Jinx -
22.
Friend or Foe
Little Archie -
23.
Berry Good Friends
Little Veronica -
24.
Sports Sharpy
Little Ambrose -
25.
Business Bungle
Little Archie
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- Dan Kocher
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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