That Wilkin Boy
#26
(January 1974)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- 5 times a year in Jan., April, July, Sept., and Oct.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- That Wilkin Boy Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
The last 52-page giant issue of this title. After this, Archie Comics ended its experiment with making most of its comics giant-sized, and returned them all to regular 36-page books.
That Old Feeling
That Wilkin Boy / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bingo, I've had this premonition of danger all evening!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin
Quiet Please
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Out! Out! All of you! Go home! We're not running a nursery school here! Vamoose!
- Feature Logo
That Wilkin Boy- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Uncle Herman; Bingo Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Wanting to work at home in peace and quiet, Mr. Smythe shoos a bunch of little kids away from his house, but winds up missing their noisiness.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #25 (November 1986) - in Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #22 (October 2007)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #184 (October 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits confirmed against the credits printed in Jughead Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #184.
Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
Some Boner
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hmmm... So Greg sent this letter from a ski lodge!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Charley Hawse; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx gets a letter from Greg saying that he broke his leg.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #57 (March 1985)
-
Love Thy Neighbor
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, Bingo! If you like Samantha so much, why not giver her something she'd really like?
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin; Mrs. Maxson; Zelda Maxson
- Synopsis
- At his mother's insistence, Bingo reluctantly leaves Samantha with Teddy and goes to welcome the new neighbors. They turn out to be a beautiful widow who lost her husband in Vietnam, and her equally beautiful teenage daughter, Zelda.
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #170 (July 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Zelda Maxson was introduced in this story as a possible rival for Bingo's affections, but she didn't last beyond one other story in this same issue and an appearance in That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #30.
The Weak Spot
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's the cookie drive, Mom! How many boxes of girl scout cookies this year?
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Bingo Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Mr. Smythe suspects everyone of trying to scam him, even little girls selling Girl Scout cookies. His suspiciousness leads to him being scammed by a phony policeman.
- Reprints
- in Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #18 (April 2007)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #180 (June 2012)
-
Bingo's Girl Whirl Name Puzzle
activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look for girls' names!
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Word search puzzle featuring girls' names.
[no title indexed]
Dear Bingo and Samantha / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Bingo and Samantha)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I like a boy very much, and he seems to like me too.
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin
- Synopsis
- More letters from readers, more advice from the characters.
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from J.S. (McBride, B.C.), M.K. (Chicago, Ill.), A.M. (Toledo, Ohio), S.T.K. (no address given) and 'A Fan' (Long Island).
The Hard Facts!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Li'l Jinx! I'm glad you could come over!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Greg; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx brings Greg cookies.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #16 (April 1985)
-
Gift of Gab
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grrr! Why did she have to move into this neighborhood? Look at that! That Zelda Maxson has latched onto my Bingo again!
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Bingo Wilkin; Zelda Maxson; Tommy
- Synopsis
- When Samantha sees Bingo going shopping with Zelda Maxson, she decides to fight for her man by butting in on their date.
That Old Feeling
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bingo, I'm worried! I've got a bad feeling about tonight!
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin; Willie Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Both Bingo and Sampson scoff at Samantha's premonition that something bad is going to happen tonight.
- Reprints
- in Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #32 (June 2009)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #7 (January 2015)
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The Insult That Made a Man Out of 'Mac'
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
That Old Feeling
That Wilkin Boy -
1.
["Home Movies: Newsreel Films"]
Movie Buys memorabilia -
2.
Quiet Please
That Wilkin Boy -
3.
["Focus on Columbia"]
Columbia Bicycles -
4.
Some Boner
Li'l Jinx -
5.
["How would you like to receive a free Christmas Gift from Archie?"]
Archie Comics -
6.
["Wow! Whatta finish!"]
Kenner Toys -
7.
Love Thy Neighbor
That Wilkin Boy -
8.
["Take my word for it, kids... The best things in life are free!"]
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals -
9.
["Irresistible rag doll twins yours for only $1"]
Cadence-Castle Art Prints -
10.
The Weak Spot
That Wilkin Boy -
11.
["The Free Spirit Spyder. It looks like it's moving even when it's standing still."]
Sears Free Spirit Bicycle -
12.
["Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!"]
Best Values Coins and Currency -
13.
["100 little dolls all for $1.50"]
100 Little Dolls -
14.
Bingo's Girl Whirl Name Puzzle
-
15.
["I like a boy very much, and he seems to like me too."]
Dear Bingo and Samantha -
16.
The Hard Facts!
Li'l Jinx -
17.
["Wow 6 different patches free."]
Super Values Products -
18.
["Own a bowlfull of happiness... Amazing live sea-monkeys"]
Sea-Monkeys -
19.
["Get in the groove for a giant fun-in!"]
Archie Comics -
20.
Gift of Gab
That Wilkin Boy -
21.
["Hey kids! Six new Archie glasses to add to your collection!"]
Archie; Welch's Concord Grape Jelly -
22.
That Old Feeling
That Wilkin Boy -
23.
["Monster S-I-Z-E Monsters"]
Monster Size Monsters -
24.
["Boys! Men!"]
Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System -
25.
["160 pages of stories and fun in Archie's full color comics digest"]
Archie Comics Digest -
26.
["If you've ever said... 'There must be a better way to earn a living...'"]
ICS / International Correspondence Schools -
27.
The Insult That Made a Man Out of 'Mac'
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System -
28.
["So, you think you know your pro basketball?"]
Strat-O-Matic Basketball Game
This issue was modified by, among others
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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