(1978)
Archie,
1977 Series
- Price
- 0.95 USD
- Pages
- 196
- Indicia Frequency
- twice a year
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000691082
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you think Little Archie will set a record in throwing frisbees?
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Spotty; Waldo Weatherbee
- Keywords
- frisbee; skateboard
[Blank Pages]
blank page(s) / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.
Stampede!
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- 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
-
from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #30 (Spring 1964)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
Remember This Day
Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Farmer Farley
- Synopsis
- Needing a break from business decisions, Mr. Lodge takes Archie, Jughead, and Veronica on a picnic by the old swimming hole. Unfortunately, Archie and Jughead's usual picnic spot is in a pasture with Farmer Farley's bull.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- barbed wire; bull; hamburgers; picnic; swimming hole
A Lesson In French
Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and his dad look for a bottle of French dressing.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #34 (Spring 1965)
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Think Cool!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- On a hot day, Jinx fans herself with a "Think" sign.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #52 (October 1972)
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The Baby Quitter
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- 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
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #26 (Spring 1963)
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The Glacier Glow-Gun
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- 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 ice caps 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
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #30 (Spring 1964)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
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.
Hidey Ho!
Super Duck / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ?!? What's cooking, Supe?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Super Duck; Fauntleroy Duck; Mr. Rockhart
- Synopsis
- Super builds a hideout under the staircase so he can hide when the landlord comes for the rent.
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #21 (August 1948)
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- Keywords
- coal bin; fireplace; grandfather clock; landlord; limburger cheese; rent; washing machine
Flight of the Penny Black
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- When Fred is looking over his stamp collection, an antique envelope with a rare "Penny Black" stamp is carried out the window by a strong wind. The boys put the envelope on Little Archie's model plane, and the "capricious" spring breeze keeps the plane in the air despite Fred's efforts to get it down.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #31 (Summer 1964)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
An example of Bolling's mystical side: a slapstick story is given a fantasy twist through captions and images that seem to suggest that the wind has a mind of its own.
Two of Bolling's own hobbies, stamp collecting and model planes, are referred to in this story.
A Happy Holiday
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- 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; un-named bank president; un-named reporters; un-named 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
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #30 (Spring 1964)
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A Word to the Wise Puzzle
Miss Grundy / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Miss Grundy
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #245 (June 1978)
-
- Keywords
- advice; blackboard
Indexer Notes
A word puzzle with numbers corresponding to letters.
Blow Up!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg; Hal Holliday
- Synopsis
- When Jinx and Greg make too much noise indoors, Jinx's father blows up an inflatable wading pool so they can play outdoors.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #222 (October 1968)
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- Keywords
- swimming pool
Troubles of a Money Lender
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Dilton Doiley; Fatty Fuller; Weasel Williams
- Synopsis
- Little Archie waits outside the school to collect a debt from Mushy Miller, but he doesn't seem as anxious to shake down the other kids he lent money to.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #28 (Fall 1963)
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Ball Happy
Little Archie Andrews / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Jughead Jones; Mr. Waldo Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Superintendent Smith; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and the gang play a Student vs. Faculty baseball game.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #36 (Fall 1965)
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Roger's Riot
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Fred and Mary think that the "Roger" Little Archie keeps talking to is an imaginary friend. At an inopportune time, they discover Roger is quite real.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #5 (Winter 1957-1958)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
Time Travels
Little Sabrina / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Little Sabrina Spellman; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Aunt Zelda; Aunt Hilda; Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy gives a homework assignment of an essay titled "If Your Wish Could Come True." Little Sabrina dreams of making the others' wishes come true, with unexpected consequences.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #72 (July 1972)
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- Keywords
- delicatessen; desert island; dream; essay; practical jokes; turkey; wishbone
[no title indexed]
Super Duck / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly, Supe, you've been feeding this dizzy looking chicken for a year!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Super Duck; Fauntleroy Duck; Alice the Tasmanian Flunkie; Brewster the Rooster
- Synopsis
- Super has a Tasmanian Flunkie, which only lays one egg per year. He gets a feisty rooster to keep her company, but after she lays the egg, the rooster won't let Super near it.
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #19 (April 1948)
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- Keywords
- armor; chicken; egg; rooster; tank; tunnel
The Golf Bug
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Jenkins
- Synopsis
- Little Jughead fixes Mr. Lodge's golf cart, which leads to a wild ride on the golf course.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #54 (July 1969)
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Fair Game
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When the gang is lost in the woods, Reggie acts abusively toward the animals, until Jughead shows everyone that the animals are nicer and smarter than they are.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #5 (Winter 1957-1958)
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Football Foolery
Ambrose / comic story / 4.75 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Sheldon Broadbeam
- Synopsis
- The girls won't let the boys have any brownies unless they let Ambrose play football with them.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #13 (Winter 1959-1960)
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[no title indexed]
Ambrose / comic story / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fooey! I don't call that a milk shake!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Ambrose isn't satisfied with a milkshake he buys from Little Archie and Moose.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #13 (Winter 1959-1960)
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Flower Power!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx covers the interior of her house with decorative flowers that stick to any surface.
- Reprints
- from Li'l Jinx Giant Laughout (Archie, 1971 series) #34 (October 1971)
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For the Birds
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps
- Synopsis
- Little Archie wants architect Ambrose to design a boat, while Ambrose wants to design a birdhouse.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #5 (Winter 1957-1958)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
A Dangerous Adventure
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Captain Courage; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; the Barracuda; un-named witch; un-named adults; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- A witch grants Little Archie's wish to have the powers of his hero, Captain Courage. He and Spotty (granted similar powers) go to fight crime with the timid actor who plays Captain Courage on TV.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #37 (Winter 1965-1966)
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The Master of Junk-Ri-La!
The Fly / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fly [Tommy Troy]; Hans Yunkmann; Mister March
- Synopsis
- Hans Yunkmann creates fabulous machines from junk and has his gang use them to commit crimes.
- Reprints
- from The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] (Archie, 1959 series) #2 (September 1959)
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[no title indexed]
Little Archie Fun Page / activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Make a Top!
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews (cameo)
Indexer Notes
A maze, a memory game, and directions for making a top.
[Word Square]
Super Duck Puzzle Page / activity / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Super Duck (cameo)
Indexer Notes
A word square with the bottom and far right squares spelling the word "melee."
In Time to Save a Dime!
Super Duck / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Palace Theatre?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Super Duck
- Synopsis
- Super races to the theater to beat the dime price raise at 5:00 p.m., but is nailed for several traffic violations that cost him $200 in fines.
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #19 (April 1948)
-
- Keywords
- movie; traffic tickets
Champion Chomper
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy tells the boys that Mr. Weatherbee was "heavyweight champion" in college.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #18 (Spring 1961)
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All Dolled Up
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Tired of Veronica flaunting her material advantages over Betty, Reggie and Jughead team up to make Veronica think Betty has a highly advanced new doll.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #5 (Winter 1957-1958)
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Daddy's Diet
Polly / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Polly Cooper; Little Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Danny; Little Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Hal 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
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #26 (Spring 1963)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
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.
The Uninvited Guests
Little Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- 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
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #26 (Spring 1963)
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Helping Out!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg; Chuck
- Synopsis
- Jinx tries to do favors for her friends, but they all backfire.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #223 (November 1968)
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- Keywords
- eggs; favors; wagon
Wish Boner
Little Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children; teen
- Characters
- Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica make a wish over a chicken wishbone.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #10 (Spring 1959)
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News from Home
Little Sabrina / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Zelda; Aunt Hilda
- Synopsis
- While at summer camp, Little Sabrina gets a copy of the Riverdale newspaper. She reads about a crime wave and uses her magic to see if her aunts are all right.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #75 (November 1972)
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- Keywords
- basement; magic; meter reader; newspaper; paint; ping pong table
Teachers Are Never Too Old
Little Archie's Teachers / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; humor
- Characters
- Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- While looking for supplies in the storeroom, Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy overhear the children chanting derogatory rhymes about her clothes and his toupee.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #31 (Summer 1964) [with "Teachers Are Never Too Old" title]
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint and the title and logo are both edited to make it read "Teachers Are Never Too Old," rather than the original "Never Too Old."
For Ham the Bell Tolls
Super Duck, featuring Ham Burger / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Snuggly settled in the forest closely hidden by the trees...
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Ham Burger; Fauntleroy Duck
- Synopsis
- Ham uses his head (literally) to ring the bell to alert the firemen of a forest fire.
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #20 (June 1948) which is reprinted
- from ?
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- Keywords
- bell; forest fire; moose; Scouts
Indexer Notes
The story is told in rhyme in captions above each panel.
[Word Ladder]
Super Duck Fun Page / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Super Duck
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #20 (June 1948)
-
Indexer Notes
A word ladder with "fare" at the top and "rusk" at the bottom, a maze, and a crossword puzzle.
Hunters of the Skies
Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature
- Synopsis
- Article about falcons with 1/4 page illustration.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #35 (Summer 1965)
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Automation
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Mr. Doogle; Greg
- Synopsis
- Greg takes Jinx to use a vending machine to get some candy, but the machine doesn't give her what she picked.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #174 (October 1964) [edited]
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Watch Out For Girls
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Evelyn Evernever; Little Veronica Lodge; Smedley (cat)
- Synopsis
- Little Archie teaches Ambrose to beware of girls, especially Ronnie Lodge, who is "sneakier than all the rest" and hits him whenever he touches her pedigreed cat Smedley.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #18 (Spring 1961)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
The Phantom of Landlocked Lakes
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; un-named woman; un-named agent; Mimi Freem
- Synopsis
- Little Archie discovers the truth of a legend about a relative of the Loch Ness Monster, who lives in a lake near Mr. Lodge's country estate, and about a ghostly Indian woman who has waited by the lake ever since her mate was killed by the monster.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #35 (Summer 1965)
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Indexer Notes
No credits on this reprint.
Mr. Weatherbee's Maze
Mr. Weatherbee / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee (cameo)
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #320 (November 1977)
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Indexer Notes
A three-part maze, with the sections having the outline of B-E-E.
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Table of Contents
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0.
["Do you think Little Archie will set a record in throwing frisbees?"]
Little Archie -
1.
[Blank Pages]
-
2.
Stampede!
Little Archie -
3.
Remember This Day
Little Archie -
4.
A Lesson In French
Little Archie -
5.
Think Cool!
Li'l Jinx -
6.
The Baby Quitter
Little Archie -
7.
The Glacier Glow-Gun
Little Archie -
8.
Hidey Ho!
Super Duck -
9.
Flight of the Penny Black
Little Archie -
10.
A Happy Holiday
Little Archie -
11.
A Word to the Wise Puzzle
Miss Grundy -
12.
Blow Up!
Li'l Jinx -
13.
Troubles of a Money Lender
Little Archie -
14.
Ball Happy
Little Archie Andrews -
15.
Roger's Riot
Little Archie -
16.
Time Travels
Little Sabrina -
17.
["Golly, Supe, you've been feeding this dizzy looking chicken for a year!"]
Super Duck -
18.
The Golf Bug
Little Archie -
19.
Fair Game
Little Archie -
20.
Football Foolery
Ambrose -
21.
["Fooey! I don't call that a milk shake!"]
Ambrose -
22.
Flower Power!
Li'l Jinx -
23.
For the Birds
Little Archie -
24.
A Dangerous Adventure
Little Archie -
25.
The Master of Junk-Ri-La!
The Fly -
26.
["Make a Top!"]
Little Archie Fun Page -
27.
[Word Square]
Super Duck Puzzle Page -
28.
In Time to Save a Dime!
Super Duck -
29.
Champion Chomper
Little Archie -
30.
All Dolled Up
Little Archie -
31.
Daddy's Diet
Polly -
32.
The Uninvited Guests
Little Archie -
33.
Helping Out!
Li'l Jinx -
34.
Wish Boner
Little Veronica -
35.
News from Home
Little Sabrina -
36.
Teachers Are Never Too Old
Little Archie's Teachers -
37.
For Ham the Bell Tolls
Super Duck, featuring Ham Burger -
38.
[Word Ladder]
Super Duck Fun Page -
39.
Hunters of the Skies
Nature's Notebook -
40.
Automation
Li'l Jinx -
41.
Watch Out For Girls
Little Archie -
42.
The Phantom of Landlocked Lakes
Little Archie -
43.
Mr. Weatherbee's Maze
Mr. Weatherbee -
44.
["Looking for something different?"]
Archie...Archie Andrews Where Are You Digest -
45.
192 Outrageous Pages of Fun
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