The Adventures of Little Archie #30

(Spring 1964)

Bully For You (Table of Contents: 1)

Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Fangs Fogarty; Little Jughead Jones; Miss Plumm

Synopsis

Fangs Fogarty is always bullying Little Archie, hitting him with snowballs and stealing his lunch, but when Little Archie retaliates, Fangs complains to the teacher. Little Archie realizes that Fangs is really a coward at heart, and comes up with a way to prove that when they have to fight fair, bullies always get "cold feet."

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #21 (March 1979), #63 (March 1986)
• in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #109 (February 1997)
• in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #64 (March 2002), #109 (March 2007)
• in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #226 (April 2012), #316 (February 2021)

Spotty Takes the Cake (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Spotty; un-named delivery man

Synopsis

Reggie falls through the ice, and Little Archie falls in while trying to save Reggie. It's up to Spotty to get help for them.

Reprints

• in Le Jeune Archie (Editions Héritage, 1976 series) #12
• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #16 (February 1976)

Off the Hook! (Table of Contents: 3)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday

The Glacier Glow-Gun (Table of Contents: 4)

Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

adventure; humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett

Synopsis

Mad Doctor Doom builds a heat gun capable of melting the polar icecaps and flooding all the coastal cities. To make sure that Little Archie won't interfere with his plan, he and Chester capture their red-haired nemesis and encase him in a vat of gelatin at Crackstone Manor.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #3 (1978)

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Mad Doctor Doom's old barnstorming biplane, which would become a regular presence in his stories.

A running gag in the Mad Doctor Doom stories is that he and Chester always have to do mundane things even as they discuss their supervillainous plans; here we see Doom renting a car to take them to their lair at Crackstone Manor.

The Great Chief (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; history

Stampede! (Table of Contents: 6)

Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Abu Broadloombo

Synopsis

A magic carpet is accidentally delivered to the Andrews home. Little Archie winds up taking a ride on the carpet with its creator, Abu Broadloombo, "carpet-weaver extraordinary and pin-ball champion of all Persia." But Abu can only keep the carpet flying when he can concentrate, and he can't concentrate without a lighted cigar -- and he loses all his matches as they're flying over Africa.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #3 (1978)

A Happy Holiday (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Svenson; Geraldine Grundy; Little Dilton Doiley; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; unnamed bank president; unnamed reporters; unnamed Mayor; Fred Andrews

Synopsis

When Little Archie says he wishes there were no school tomorrow, it sets off a chain of rumors that leads to the creation of a new civic holiday.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #3 (1978)

An Adventure In Money (Table of Contents: 8)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Waldo Weatherbee; un-named adults

Synopsis

Little Archie discovers the hideout of a crook who is passing out counterfeit money all over town.

Reprints

• in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #34 (1979)

Like Cats and Dogs (Table of Contents: 9)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #33 (December 1978)

Sled With a Mission (Table of Contents: 10)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Midas Mudge; Sue Stringly; Bobby Stringly; Jimmy Lee

Synopsis

To earn money for a new pair of skates Little Archie takes a job as a delivery boy for grocer Midas Mudge, the stingiest man in Riverdale. When Little Archie goes out for his first delivery, pulling the food on a sled, the sled gets away from him and slides down the snowy hill. As if it has a mind of its own, the sled winds its way through traffic until it brings the food to two of the poorest and hungriest kids in town, Bobby and Sue Stringly.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #16 (February 1976)

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Sue Stringly. In a re-designed version, she would become a semi-regular character after Bolling returned to "Little Archie" in the late '70s.

Jimmy Lee, who was introduced as an aspiring reporter in "Little Archie Mystery Comics," has now been promoted to a full-fledged reporter.