(Fall 1959)
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)
[Ronnie's Bakery]
Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
The Famous Flyer
Little Archie / comic story / 11 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; Spotty; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Ambrose Pipps; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Evelyn Evernever; Mrs. Cooper; Chick Cooper
- Synopsis
- Little Archie becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming famous, and takes to heart his father's advice that to become famous he needs to be a "good mixer." After getting advice from Chick Cooper on how to build model planes, Little Archie gets one of his "fran-tastical ideas": he'll become famous by building and flying a full-sized airplane based on Chick's instructions. Meanwhile, the girls try to make the world's biggest mud pie.
Indexer Notes
In this issue, Spotty is colored grey instead of his usual color.
The Handsome Ransom
Little Ambrose / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- The kids find a note from Ambrose saying that he's being held for ransom by the South Side Serpents. After the girls accuse them of being too "sissy" to go after him, the boys set out to rescue Ambrose and wind up being captured by the Serpents themselves.
One for the Books
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
- Synopsis
- Little Archie stands on a stack of books to reach the cookies his mother made.
It's An Old Saying
Little Archie / comic story / 6 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; Spotty; Doctor Throb
- Synopsis
- Trying to get Little Archie to go to the dentist, Fred uses a lot of wise old sayings. Unfortunately, it's the dentist who uses the old sayings on him when it turns out Fred's teeth need more work than Little Archie's.
The Musk Ox
Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature; animal; math & science
Brain Boobs
Little Archie and the Good Ol' Gang / comic story / 10.75 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Svenson; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- The boys try to steal the girls' ice cream and cake, first by capturing Ambrose, then by fooling Evelyn into trading them the goodies for a "brain box" that they claim can give the right answer to any question.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie / comic story / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Will you put this sign up for my doggy
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge
TV Time
Caramel / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Betty Cooper; Caramel; Mrs. Cooper; Mrs. Crump
- Synopsis
- A guest at the Cooper house is amused to see Caramel staring intently at the TV set.
Miss Helpful!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Merry Holliday
The Beauty and the Boat
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Evelyn Evernever; Sheldon Broadbeam
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and Jughead take Evelyn up on her suggestion to start a sightseeing boat tour on Carson's Creek, but reject her offer to be the tour's "boo-ful" main attraction.
The Glamour Gal of the West Side
Evelyn Evernever / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Evelyn Evernever; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- All the kids bring in scrapbooks of something near and dear to them, and Evelyn's is filled with pictures of herself.
The Big Move
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Pop Tate; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever
- Synopsis
- All the kids are nice to Ambrose when they hear that he and his family are moving.
Lesson Learned
Little Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Little Archie prepares to give Ronnie a lesson.
Picnic Party
Little Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- For once Jughead doesn't eat before everyone else does on a picnic.
Little Veronica Fun Page
Little Veronica / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children; teen
- Characters
- Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Cut-out dresses for Ronnie.
The Rules
Pipsqueak / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
Thinner
Pipsqueak / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
A Fishy Marriage
Little Ambrose / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever; Bubbles McBounce
- Synopsis
- The boys glumly realize that someday they'll grow up and get married to girls, like most guys do. Ambrose is determined to devote his life to fishing instead of getting married, but the girls tell him they've already picked out his future wife: Bubbles McBounce, an obese girl who just moved to the West Side. While Ambrose's mother tells him that someday he'll want to get married when he finds a girl who understand him, the boys start fighting over the right to marry Bubbles, who is despondent when she realizes that they only want her because her father owns McBounce's ice cream parlor.
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Bubbles McBounce.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Ronnie's Bakery]
Little Archie -
1.
The Famous Flyer
Little Archie -
2.
The Handsome Ransom
Little Ambrose -
3.
One for the Books
Little Archie -
4.
It's An Old Saying
Little Archie -
5.
The Musk Ox
Nature's Notebook -
6.
Brain Boobs
Little Archie and the Good Ol' Gang -
7.
["Will you put this sign up for my doggy"]
Little Archie -
8.
TV Time
Caramel -
9.
Miss Helpful!
Li'l Jinx -
10.
Balloon Round-Up!
Little Archie -
11.
The Beauty and the Boat
Little Archie -
12.
The Glamour Gal of the West Side
Evelyn Evernever -
13.
The Wide Open Spaces
Shrimpy -
14.
News Story
Shrimpy -
15.
Big Guns For Washington
American Heritage -
16.
The Big Move
Little Archie -
17.
Lesson Learned
Little Archie -
18.
Picnic Party
Little Archie -
19.
Little Veronica Fun Page
Little Veronica -
20.
The Rules
Pipsqueak -
21.
Thinner
Pipsqueak -
22.
A Fishy Marriage
Little Ambrose
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katy Hayhurst
- Dan Kocher
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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