That Wilkin Boy
#11
(January 1971)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- That Wilkin Boy Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series Goes 'Bingo'
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
The Vicious Cycle
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Tough Teddy; Willie Wilkin; Uncle Herman
- Synopsis
- Mr. Smythe uses Teddy's motorcycle to show off his cycling ability, only to be one-upped by Uncle Herman.
Star Bright!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There’s a zillion, trillion, stars up there, Russ
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Russ
- Synopsis
- Russ makes up a different imaginary huge number of stars so Li’l Jinx demands a recount
Indexer Notes
This is NOT the same story as appears in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #516.
Muscle Tussle
Teddy / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Tough Teddy; Sampson Smythe
- Synopsis
- Mr. Smythe compliments Teddy on being in good shape.
- Reprints
-
in That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #24 (September 1973) - in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #53 (July 1984)
- in Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #2 (August 2005)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #200 (April 2014)
-
A Day in the Life of a Fool
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Tough Teddy; Rebel
- Synopsis
- Bingo vows that by the end of the day Mr. Smythe will love him like a son. Filled with typical Wilkin stubbornness and stick-to-itiveness, he spends the entire day ignoring Samantha and trying to make her father like him. By the end of the day, Mr. Smythe loves him and Samantha dumps him.
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #198 (February 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
In the splash panel, Rebel is reading the collected poems of John Keats.
When reprinted in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #198, inks are credited to Jim DeCarlo.
The Beat Goes On
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Buddy Drumhead; Rebel
- Synopsis
- Everyone keeps mistaking Buddy's incessant drumming for the sound of something breaking.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is
letters page / 1 page
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin
- Synopsis
- More advice to readers from Bingo.
The Old Pro
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin; Sampson Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin; Uncle Herman; Rebel
- Synopsis
- Uncle Herman bores everyone with stories about his past as a professional baseball player.
- Reprints
- in Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #2 (August 2005)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #181 (July 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
This story reveals that Herman is the brother of Bingo's mother, and therefore, as Willie says, "he is not -- I repeat, not a Wilkin!"
Credits confirmed by the printed credits in Jughead Double Digest #181.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["What goes best with a long dress and a long scarf?"]
That Wilkin Boy -
1.
The Vicious Cycle
That Wilkin Boy -
2.
Star Bright!
Li'l Jinx -
3.
Muscle Tussle
Teddy -
4.
A Day in the Life of a Fool
That Wilkin Boy -
5.
The Beat Goes On
That Wilkin Boy -
6.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is
-
7.
The Old Pro
That Wilkin Boy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Mike Nielsen
- Randall S
- Jaime Weinman
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.