The Adventures of Little Archie #38

(Spring 1966)

The Terrible Tornado Machine (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Bob Bolling

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

humor; adventure; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Detective Parker; Millionaire Dibbledock; un-named clerk

Synopsis

Mad Doctor Doom creates a machine that can control tornadoes, and uses it to destroy Riverdale's newly-completed Dibbledock Towers. He begins to blackmail wealthy businessmen, and uses the remote-controlled tornadoes to collect the ransom money. The police don't believe Little Archie's insistence that the "harmless nut" Mad Doctor Doom is behind this reign of terror. So it's once again up to that "meddlesome brat" to foil Doom's plans himself, using two things: the gold bars Doom has collected as ransom, and Chester's huge supply of "Icky Slicky" hair oil.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #13 (November 1984)

Indexer Notes

This was the last Little Archie story for many years by the title's creator, Bob Bolling. He was transferred to the "big" Archie titles after this, with Dexter Taylor handling the Little Archie title almost exclusively. Bolling drew (but didn't write) one Little Archie story in the early '70s, and finally returned to the title on a semi-regular basis starting in Little Archie # 142.

This was also the last appearance of Mad Doctor Doom in Little Archie for many years. He briefly became a recurring villain in Archie superhero stories. He and Chester reappeared in a Dexter Taylor story in Little Archie # 136, and Bolling returned to the characters in the mid-'80s.

George To the Rescue (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy

Synopsis

Little Archie brings a parakeet to school.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #4 (April 1979)

Science on the March (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot

Synopsis

Little Archie and Jughead build an ant farm as their science project, but the "ants" are actually termites.

Reprints

• in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #5 (June 1978)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #14 (January 1985)

The Right One (Table of Contents: 4)

Little Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy

Synopsis

The kids discuss their favorite rings.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #14 (January 1985)

Challenge of the Storm (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Archie / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Pierre; Brownie

Synopsis

Little Archie and his father return to Moosehorn Lumber Camp, where Pierre is injured while trying to protect his dog Brownie from a wolverine.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #45 (March 1990)

Indexer Notes

The camp, and the character of Pierre, first appeared in Bob Bolling's story "Cougar" (Little Archie # 15). Pierre mentions that Little Archie saved his life in that story.

Cornered (Table of Contents: 6)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg

Synopsis

Li'l Jinx's daddy makes her stand in the corner and think about what she did, but instead she lets her imagination run wild.

Reprints

• in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (Archie, 1977 series) #4 (April 1979)
• in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #64 (March 2002), #128 (March 2009)
• in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #259 (February 2018)

Little Archie Theatre (Table of Contents: 7)

Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

humor

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Little Archie and Jughead put on a puppet show consisting mostly of jokes about Reggie.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #14 (January 1985)

Don't Call Me... (Table of Contents: 8)

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; Greg; Sylvester

Monster of the Quarter Moon (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Dexter Taylor

Pencils

Dexter Taylor

Inks

Dexter Taylor

Colors

?

Letters

Dexter Taylor

Genre

adventure

Characters

Little Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; un-named woman

Synopsis

Mr. Lodge takes Ronnie and Little Archie to the seaside, where he is planning to build a resort at the site of an old abandoned lighthouse. A mysterious woman appears to warn the children of a giant sea monster who will appear there in search of food.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #23 (July 1986) [Reference to story taking place in "early days of spring" during Little Archie's prologue removed]