(Summer 1962)
Archie,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1962-04-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Little Archie Giant Comics
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Issue Notes
With this issue, the title was reduced from 84 to 68 pages. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't care if you are the toughest kid in town, nobody picks on my girls!
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; un-named bully
Indexer Notes
The scene depicted on this cover does not appear anywhere in the issue (or any other); it's just a way to show Little Archie as a heroic character.
Little Betty and Veronica have been re-designed a bit as of this cover; Betty now sports a ponytail like her teen counterpart.
Venus Revisited
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; children; science fiction
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Herbnik; Greenback Klutchum; Waldo Pinckley; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; un-named Venusians
- Synopsis
- On the planet Venus, a Venusian named Herbnik invents the BaBongos, and plays music that is unacceptable to his people. He decides to leave Venus and travels to Earth, where Little Archie saves his life by getting him a drink of ammonia. Little Archie then sets up a meeting between Herbnik and the talented talent agent Mr. Greenback Klutchum, who turns Herbnik into an Earth-wide musical star. But when humans start copying Herbnik's music, Earthlings reject him in favor of musicians who look like them.
- Reprints
-
in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977) - in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #6 (May 1983)
-
Indexer Notes
A combination of science-fiction and satire of the music business. Herbnik's musical downfall is an obvious reference to the copying of African-American music by white performers in the late '50s.
One Panel Jokes With Little Archie
Little Archie / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
- Synopsis
- Four one-panel cartoons.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977)
-
Ga Ga Over Gary
Polly / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Betty Cooper; Polly Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Gary Grover; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever
- Synopsis
- Betty's big sister Polly gets a date with Gary Grover, "the most popular boy in the whole junior class." To go on the date, she has to break her promise to make a dress for Betty's doll.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #11 (July 1984)
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Polly Cooper. She would have her own story in each of the next three issues, plus another story in Little Archie # 36. She was brought into the "big" Archie continuity in the late '80s.
Silent Stuff With Little Archie
Little Archie / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Spotty
- Synopsis
- Four silent one-panel cartoons.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977)
-
Samuel F.B. Morse
text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- Article on the inventor of the telegraph.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #32 (October 1978)
-
Medically Speaking!
Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Shrimpy; Brando
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #19 (November 1978)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #31 (November 1987)
-
Seeing the Light!
Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Shrimpy; Daphne
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #19 (November 1978)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #31 (November 1987)
-
Puddle Muddle!
Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Shrimpy; Cousin Kim
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #53 (November 1982)
-
Spotty Gets the Bird
Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; un-named bird; un-named cat
- Synopsis
- Spotty is jealous of a bird that Little Archie adopts.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #27 (December 1977)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #118 [Newsstand] (September 2000)
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Get the Picture
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- The girls try to get Jughead to put on nice clothes for the school photo.
Class Picture
illustration / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977)
-
Space Shot
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
- Synopsis
- Little Archie plays spaceman.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #1 (October 1977)
- in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #1 (January 1982)
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Hits and Misses
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; GaGa; Greg; Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Everyone is nice to Li'l Jinx.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #30 (June 1978) [minus one page]
-
Love Thy Neighbor
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Susan Johnson
- Synopsis
- A new family moves into Little Archie's neighborhood, and when Little Archie tries to help them carry their things into the house, he drives the father crazy.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #27 (December 1977)
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #27 (November 1987)
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Indexer Notes
First appearance of the Johnson family. Mr. Johnson was Dexter Taylor's attempt to create his own version of Mr. Wilson from "Dennis the Menace."
The Law and Hermit Harper
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Hermit Harper; un-named policemen; un-named doctor
- Synopsis
- Little Archie is bitten by a dog owned by a paranoid hermit. The police need to get the man to give them his dog for a rabies test.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I don't care if you are the toughest kid in town, nobody picks on my girls!"]
Little Archie -
1.
Venus Revisited
Little Archie -
2.
One Panel Jokes With Little Archie
Little Archie -
3.
Ga Ga Over Gary
Polly -
4.
Silent Stuff With Little Archie
Little Archie -
5.
Samuel F.B. Morse
-
6.
Medically Speaking!
Shrimpy -
7.
Seeing the Light!
Shrimpy -
8.
Puddle Muddle!
Shrimpy -
9.
Spotty Gets the Bird
Little Archie -
10.
Get the Picture
Little Archie -
11.
Class Picture
-
12.
Space Shot
Little Archie -
13.
Hits and Misses
Li'l Jinx -
14.
Love Thy Neighbor
Little Archie -
15.
The Law and Hermit Harper
Little Archie
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