(September 1990)
Archie,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- 6 times a year in Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, and Nov
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 071896468571 44
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater; Victor Gorelick; Nanci Tsetsekas
Issue Notes
Indicia reads "Little Archie Digest Magazine", per Error Report #3032, by Dave Reeder.
[no title indexed]
Little Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How did Little Archie get so good at this game?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle (picture); Little Jughead Jones; Little Archie Andrews
- Keywords
- beach; swimsuits; volleyball
The Sea Serpent of Carson's Creek
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Dexter Taylor
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor
- Inks
- Reggie Orr
- Colors
- Barry Grossman; Nanci Tsetsekas; Gregg Suchow
- Letters
- Reggie Orr
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Spotty; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Sammy Serpent; Little Dilton Doiley; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Scoop McGoop; Waldo Weatherbee; Hiram Lodge; Professor Flutesnoot; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and Little Jughead find a sea serpent.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #111 (November 1999) - in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #162 (September 2010)
-
A Home-Grown Gal
Little Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #390 (August 1985)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #92 (November 2019)
-
A Good Sign
Little Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #162 (September 2010)
-
Late Date
Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Little Archie is late for supper.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #135 (September 2002)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #269 (August 2016)
-
Fashion Time
Little Betty and Veronica / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
A Ride to Doom
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Little Archie saves the day when the bus to the away baseball game gets stuck in a puddle.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #120 (July 1977)
-
It's Only Money
Little Jughead / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Jughead Jones; Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Little Betty Cooper; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Little Jughead is avoiding Little Archie so he doesn't have to pay him the dollar he owes Little Archie.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #57 (January 1970)
-
Movie Monsters
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
- Synopsis
- Jinx is unimpressed by the monster movie she just saw.
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #72 (August 1974)
-
Get the Picture
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper
The Operation
Little Jughead / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Little Veronica; Little Jughead; Little Reggie
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #67 (September 1971)
-
The Frog Farm
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Mary Andrews; Elvis (frog)
- Synopsis
- Little Archie has no time for Ronnie's attempts to get him interested in dating and dancing; he wants to start a "frog farm" with Elvis the frog. But when he wrecks a go-kart after leaving Elvis as a deposit, it's Ronnie who buys the frog back for Little Archie. And after Little Archie gets Elvis back, he sees something that makes him think that boys might need girls after all.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #25 (Winter 1962-1963)
-
Out of Left Field
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx gets to play outfield but they really need a new pitcher.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #35 (September 1973)
-
- Keywords
- baseball
Mystery Menace
Little Archie / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; un-named witch; un-named bird; un-named adults
- Synopsis
- There has been a rash of jewel thefts all over Riverdale, and the latest victim is Little Archie, who sees a bird fly off with the bracelet he bought Ronnie for her birthday. He and Betty follow the bird into Spook Woods and discover that the bird's master is a green-skinned witch, complete with pointed black hat.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #25 (Winter 1962-1963)
-
Hot 'n' Cold
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx is running away from home, until she hears the ice cream truck.
- Reprints
- from Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #35 (December 1984) which is reprinted
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #13 (August 1969)
-
[no title indexed]
Laffs from Little Archie / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Dexter Taylor
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor
- Inks
- Dexter Taylor
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Dexter Taylor
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our boat looks like it could use one more coat before we put it in the water!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Short gags with the Little Archie gang.
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #534 (January 1984)
-
Oh, Say Can You
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Gigi
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx describes Charley's attempt to sing the National Anthem.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #152 (December 1974)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Archie Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All I said was that I thought I was good at paperwork!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #545 (January 1985)
-
Sum Gum
Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When Little Archie loses a nickel down a sewer grate, Little Jughead helps him recover it.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #109 (August 1976)
-
First Aid!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Reprints
- from Archie's TV Laugh-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #3 (June 1970)
-
Mystery of the Lost Gold Mine
Little Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Jughead; Reggie; Veronica; Mr. Lodge; Hank (Mr. Lodge's Ranch hand); Indians; Ghost
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge takes the kids to his Ranch to look for gold. A ghost and Indians have different plans for them.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #165 (April 1981)
-
Making the Scene!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Reprints
- from Archie's TV Laugh-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #3 (June 1970)
-
One Stormy Cat
Little Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Betty; Caramel; Spotty; Little Archie; Alice Cooper
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and Spotty help Little Betty find her missing cat during a thunderstorm.
- Reprints
Ludwig LaStanza’s Left Field Concerto
Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Ludwig La Stanza; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Fangs Fogarty; Scaley McSlither; Dud La Stanza; un-named kids
- Synopsis
- Aspiring conductor Ludwig La Stanza would rather listen to symphonies on the radio than play baseball, so the kids rig up a radio that he can listen to while playing the outfield.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #15 (Summer 1960)
-
Indexer Notes
Last appearance of Ludwig La Stanza, Bolling's attempt to come up with a character similar to Schroeder from "Peanuts."
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["How did Little Archie get so good at this game?"]
Little Archie -
1.
The Sea Serpent of Carson's Creek
Little Archie -
2.
A Home-Grown Gal
Little Archie -
3.
A Good Sign
Little Jughead -
4.
Late Date
Little Archie -
5.
Ghost House
Little Sabrina -
6.
Fashion Time
Little Betty and Veronica -
7.
A Ride to Doom
Little Archie -
8.
It's Only Money
Little Jughead -
9.
Movie Monsters
Li'l Jinx -
10.
Get the Picture
Little Archie -
11.
The Operation
Little Jughead -
12.
The Frog Farm
Little Archie -
13.
Out of Left Field
Li'l Jinx -
14.
Mystery Menace
Little Archie -
15.
Hot 'n' Cold
Li'l Jinx -
16.
["Our boat looks like it could use one more coat before we put it in the water!"]
Laffs from Little Archie -
17.
Oh, Say Can You
Li'l Jinx -
18.
["All I said was that I thought I was good at paperwork!"]
Little Archie Gag Bag -
19.
Sum Gum
Little Archie -
20.
First Aid!
Li'l Jinx -
21.
Mystery of the Lost Gold Mine
Little Archie -
22.
Making the Scene!
Li'l Jinx -
23.
Young Designer’s Club
Little Betty and Veronica -
24.
One Stormy Cat
Little Betty -
25.
Ludwig LaStanza’s Left Field Concerto
Little Archie -
26.
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
Little Jughead -
27.
Ice Cream Team
Little Reggie
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