Richie Rich Inventions #13

(May 1980)

Once Upon A Time! (Table of Contents: 1)

Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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children

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Richie Rich; Cadbury; Professor Keenbean; unnamed cavemen

Synopsis

While looking for fossils, Richie and Cadbury uncover a large metallic capsule with a hinged door and a figure of a head on top with a face that looks just like Cadbury. Stepping inside, is transported one million years back in time. There Richie is captured by cavemen and brought to the top of a snow-topped mountain. He uses large blades of grass as skis, skiis back down the mountain and returns to the present in the capsule. Cadbury investigates the capsule himself and, once again the capsule disappears...

Indexer Notes

Story and page numbering continue in "Time Will Tell!", later in this issue. In the scenes in which Richie is skiing, the snow is mis-colored green.

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Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aw! The novelty shops don't have a scary enough prank spider, Richie, so I have to make one!

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children

Characters

Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough

Synopsis

Reggie makes a fake spider to try to scare Richie, but Richie ends up scaring Reggie instead.

Time Will Tell! (Table of Contents: 3)

Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Richie Rich; Cadbury; Professor Keenbean; unnamed cavemen

Synopsis

When Cadbury is sent back in time, Richie and the Professor use another time machine to follow him into the past. There they must rescue Cadbury, who has been tied up by cavemen. They surmise upon their return that the cavemen must have added the image of the Cadbury to the capsule.

Indexer Notes

Story and page numbering (6-10) continue from "Once Upon A Time!", earlier in this issue. As in Part 1, snow is mis-colored green in this story.

Constructo (Table of Contents: 4)

Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; unnamed teacher; unnamed student; Richard Rich; Professor Keenbean; Constructo (machine)

Synopsis

Professor Keenbean presents his latest invention: a machine that can build almost anything instantly - houses, bridges, highways, etc. The demonstration goes well, but the Professor accidentally damages the control panel, and Constructo begins building a highway nonstop. All efforts to stop it fail, until Richie remembers something his teacher said in class that day.

What I Did This Summer (Table of Contents: 5)

Richie Rich / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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children

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Miss Penn; Freckles Friendly (mentioned only); Gloria Glad (mentioned only); Richie Rich; Cadbury

Synopsis

Richie's English teacher finds several essays written by his classmates about what they did over the summer very informative about who they were as people and students. But she finds Richie's description of travel to so many countries across the globe preposterous, and decides to tell Richie's parents personally that he has lied in his essay. When she arrives at the Rich estate, she believes the essay.

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• from Richie Rich & Casper (Harvey, 1974 series) #15 (December 1976)

Super Healthy (Table of Contents: 6)

Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Richard Rich; two unnamed scientists; Richie Rich; Cadbury; Regina Rich; Chef Peirre

Synopsis

Mr. Rich inhales a cloud of vapor collected from a probe on Venus, and starts demonstrating tremendous feats of strength as well as very poor judgement. However, a sneeze expels the vapor and reverses the effect.

Reprints

• from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #139 (February 1976)