(May 1969)
Harvey,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-02-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Giant Size Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited); Sid Jacobson (actual)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1969 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich Millions / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've been wanting to visit our gardener, Mr. Grass!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Mr. Grass
- Synopsis
- Richie improves the effectiveness of the estate gardener's scarecrow.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, Richie! Aren't you afraid of robbers with so much money around?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria; robbers
- Synopsis
- Richie explains why having so much cash lying around doesn't make it easy for robbers.
The Hidden City
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Dr. Matt Digmor; Reggie Van Dough; Parker Barrows; Kelsey; Cholly; armed guards; aircraft loaders; laborers; Gus; Dutch
- Synopsis
- Richie brings $20 million to Italy to fund the excavation of an ancient town near Mt. Vesuvius, while mobsters plot to steal the money.
Indexer Notes
Story continues in "Richie Rich and the Lava Monsters", immediately following in this issue.
Richie Rich and the Lava Monsters
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; Dr. Matt Digmor; Parker Barrows; Kelsey; Cholly; laborers; Pietro; gangsters
- Synopsis
- Mobsters dress up as lava monsters as a ploy to steal the cash that Richie is using to fund an excavation near Mt. Vesuvius.
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "The Hidden City", immediately preceding in this issue, and continues in "Look Out! There Are Real Lava Monsters", immediately following in this issue.
Look Out! There Are Real Monsters
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Dr. Matt Digmor; Reggie Van Dough; laborers; Parker Barrows; Kelsey; Cholly; gangsters; Neapolitan police; Neapolitan firemen
- Synopsis
- Richie has a few tricks up his sleeve for the mobsters who are interfering with an excavation he is funding.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, great! The school yard's new sliding pond is up!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; bully
- Synopsis
- Lotta and a bully each want to be the first to use a new playground slide.
Farm Refinement
Cadbury, the Perfect Butler / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cadbury; Poopsie; Richie Rich; Calvin Cornflake; Emma; reporter; cowgirl
- Synopsis
- Cadbury relates a tale of a time when he was briefly employed as a farm hand.
Badly Jar-red
Richie Rich Presents / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Willie; Brenda
- Synopsis
- Even though Brenda worries, Willie builds a pile of books in order to reach the cookie jar, but it all comes crashing down.
- Reprints
-
from Casper the Friendly Ghost (Harvey, 1952 series) #35 (August 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
The "presents" portion of "Richie Rich presents" is erroneously omitted.
The Pelican and the Crow
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Petey Pelican; Charlie Crow; blue jay; birds
- Synopsis
- Charlie Crow teaches Petey Pelican to steal all the bird seed, but when Petey realizes he is learning to be a thief, he eats it all and leaves Charlie with nothing.
- Reprints
- from Felix the Cat's Nephews, Inky and Dinky (Harvey, 1957 series) #7 (October 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
When first presented, this story was titled "The Crow and the Pelican". "Richie Rich" was added to the header with this issue, erroneously omitting "presents", which was corrected in later reprints of this story.
Hoop-EEE!
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Uncle Branes; pedestrian; Chauncey; Eleanor; bank robbers; police officers; Mr. Polka
- Synopsis
- Dot plays with a hoop of lightweight metal invented by Uncle Branes, and she inadvertently foils some bank robbers in the process.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- S'long, Lambie Pie!... and thank you, Lotta, for taking him to the barber for me!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Mrs. Smotherluv; Don Smotherluv; Mr. Hathaway
- Synopsis
- Lotta convinces a boy she is babysitting to behave for the barber.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee! Look at the time!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; costume party attendees; parent
- Synopsis
- Lotta forgets to take off her devil costume and frightens the lady whose children she's supposed to babysit.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #225 (April 1987)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you been all over your estate, Richie?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad
- Synopsis
- Richie uses his money belt to cross a ravine.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
Money Matters Not
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Wilton
- Synopsis
- Richie shows a new classmate around the estate while trying to avoid showing off his wealth.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look what I have, Gloria! A laugh machine!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad
- Synopsis
- Gloria doesn't like Richie's new laugh machine.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Isn't Cadbury calm? Those kids are mean, Richie!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; Cadbury; children
- Synopsis
- Cadbury babysits a bunch of brats.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
Feeling Low in High Places
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Fenwick
- Synopsis
- Richie cures his new assistant chauffeur, Fenwick, of vertigo.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
Little Dot and Laughing Boy
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Judd; Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Chuck; pedestrians
- Synopsis
- Dot meets a boy who laughs at everything.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
Sleepyhead
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Linda; Teddy
- Synopsis
- Linda has difficulty falling asleep until she remembers to turn off the light in her room.
- Reprints
- from Baby Huey, the Baby Giant (Harvey, 1956 series) #16 (February 1959)
-
Indexer Notes
This story has also appeared under the title "Bedtime Problem".
Bad Housekeeping
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Sammy Squirrel; Squirmy Squirrel; birds
- Synopsis
- Sammy the Squirrel makes a mess while his wife is away.
- Reprints
- from Spooky (Harvey, 1955 series) #19 (April 1958)
-
Quite Quiet!
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; bully; children; Gerald (in dream only); equestrian; motorist; Mr. Plump
- Synopsis
- A bully thinks he's going to take over Lotta's neighborhood until he sees her catch a horse and rider in mid-air.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich (Harvey, 1960 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich -
1.
["I've been wanting to visit our gardener, Mr. Grass!"]
Richie Rich Millions -
2.
["Gosh, Richie! Aren't you afraid of robbers with so much money around?"]
Richie Rich -
3.
The Hidden City
Richie Rich -
4.
Richie Rich and the Lava Monsters
Richie Rich -
5.
Look Out! There Are Real Monsters
Richie Rich -
6.
["Oh, great! The school yard's new sliding pond is up!"]
Little Lotta -
7.
Farm Refinement
Cadbury, the Perfect Butler -
8.
Badly Jar-red
Richie Rich Presents -
9.
The Pelican and the Crow
-
10.
Hoop-EEE!
Little Dot -
11.
["S'long, Lambie Pie!... and thank you, Lotta, for taking him to the barber for me!"]
Little Lotta -
12.
["Gee! Look at the time!"]
Little Lotta -
13.
["Have you been all over your estate, Richie?"]
Richie Rich -
14.
Money Matters Not
Richie Rich -
15.
["Look what I have, Gloria! A laugh machine!"]
Richie Rich -
16.
["Isn't Cadbury calm? Those kids are mean, Richie!"]
Richie Rich -
17.
Feeling Low in High Places
Richie Rich -
18.
Little Dot and Laughing Boy
Little Dot -
19.
Sleepyhead
-
20.
Bad Housekeeping
-
21.
Quite Quiet!
Little Lotta
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Craig Richardson
- Len Wolinsky
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