Archie Giant Series Magazine #581

(January 1988)

Go With the Floe (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

adventure; humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Sue Stringly; Snuffles

Synopsis

After Little Archie protects Sue Stringly and her scrawny Christmas tree from the South Side Serpents, the two run out onto the ice after her dog Snuffles and get caught on an ice floe that takes them out into the middle of the river.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #112 (February 1994)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #105 (February 1999), #148 (February 2004)
• in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2012 series) #2 (2012)
• in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #84 (January 2019)

Keywords

Christmas; Christmas tree

Indexer Notes

When reprinted in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2012 series) #2, the inks are credited to Chic Stone.

Tree Spree (Table of Contents: 2)

Little Sabrina / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor; children; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Little Sabrina; Aunt Zelda

Synopsis

Sabrina and Zelda pick out a Christmas tree.

Little Archie's Mail Board (Table of Contents: 3)

Little Archie / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

children

The Christmas Comet (or Halley-Luiah!) (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

adventure; humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Professor Pither

Synopsis

Little Archie goes to Crackstone Manor to retrieve the camera he left there the last time Mad Doctor Doom captured him (in Archie Giant Series #570). He finds that in the Doctor's absence, Professor Pither From Planet Pluto is using Crackstone Manor to create tiny tornadoes that can steal people's jewelry.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #132 (February 1997)

Indexer Notes

Professor Pither was originally created by Bob Bolling as an adversary for Sabrina the Teenage Witch. (In at least one Sabrina story we learn that he continues to use Crackstone Manor after Archie has grown up and driven Mad Doctor Doom out of Riverdale.)

The Pikers (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

adventure; humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Mr. Weatherbee is ice-fishing for the legendary Perilous Pike of Logger's Pond, but the boys almost catch the Perilous Pike using a sandwich as bait.

Indexer Notes

The Perilous Pike, and Mr. Weatherbee's obsession with catching him, were introduced in Bolling's Archie and Me #144.