(Spring 1963)
Archie,
1961 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1963-01-25
- 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
On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
Indexer Notes
Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his.
A Reel Adventure
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Officer O'Beez; Shakey; Fingers; Mr. Cooper
- Synopsis
- Little Archie gets a movie camera and unwittingly films two wanted criminals outside a store they're planning to rob. To ensure that they won't be identified after the robbery, the crooks try to get the camera away from Little Archie, first by theft, then by bribery, and finally by force.
Indexer Notes
The end of the story shows Little Archie taking up stamp collecting, one of Bolling's own hobbies.
Mr. Cooper is named "Henry" in this story.
Made For Trouble
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Harry McTwinge; Trouble Dragon
- Synopsis
- When Little Archie is annoyed at all the things that have been going wrong for him, a Demon appears to make him an offer: if he fights and defeats his entire lifetime of troubles, in the form of a dragon, he'll never have any trouble again.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #7 (August 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his.
Time Is Money!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Daddy's Diet
Polly / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Polly Cooper; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Danny; Little Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Mr. Cooper promises to buy Polly the five-dollar blouse she wants if she helps him to stay on his diet. So Polly enlists her boyfriend Danny to help her come up with some ingenious ways to keep her father away from food.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
One of the earliest examples of a technique Bolling would use a lot in later stories: including a caption at the very end that fills us in on what happened after the story ended.
Muskrat Ramble
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Evelyn Evernever
- Synopsis
- Evelyn shows Archie her pet muskrat, but Little Archie insists that an animal with such a flat, wide tail must be a beaver.
Indexer Notes
Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his.
Last appearance of Evelyn Evernever in the original Little Archie comics (she would later appear in some "big" Archie stories).
Perfectionist!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
The Uninvited Guests
Little Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; un-named auctioneer; un-named Swiss man; un-named goat
- Synopsis
- Fred buys a Swiss music box at an auction, and discovers that it has a tiny Swiss goatherd and goat inside.
- Reprints
Candid Camera
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Bagly
- Synopsis
- Reggie tries to get Little Archie into trouble, but everything he tries seems to wind up making Little Archie more popular with the teachers.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #22 (May 1979)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #26 (January 1987)
-
Chip Off the Ol' Block!
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; George Washington; un-named historical characters
- Synopsis
- When Little Archie refuses to eat his fish, Fred tells him the story of an Andrews ancestor whose love of fish helped to save the American troops at Valley Forge.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #7 (August 1974)
-
The Baby Quitter
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Susan Johnson; Jumbo Jones; Spotty
- Synopsis
- Little Archie's babysitter, Susan, is trapped in a relationship with a big, conceited boy named "Jumbo" Jones, who won't let any other man near her. Little Archie comes up with a way to scare Jumbo away from Susan.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Little Archie -
1.
A Reel Adventure
Little Archie -
2.
Dion - Young Singer In Search of a Song
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3.
Made For Trouble
Little Archie -
4.
Time Is Money!
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Daddy's Diet
Polly -
6.
Muskrat Ramble
Little Archie -
7.
Jimmy Clanton
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8.
Perfectionist!
Li'l Jinx -
9.
The Uninvited Guests
Little Archie -
10.
Candid Camera
Little Archie -
11.
Chip Off the Ol' Block!
Little Archie -
12.
The Baby Quitter
Little Archie -
13.
The Image
Little Archie -
14.
Hearty Turnabout
Little Archie
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