(August 1979)
Harvey,
1961 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-05-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey World
- Barcode
- 0716585274096
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #168.
The Slump!
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're a happy family to have the kind of household staff we do! There's Cadbury, the Perfect Butler!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Cadbury; Irona; Bascomb; Socko Rockem (on television); Richard Rich, Sr.; Chef Pierre; Regina Rich
- Synopsis
- After Mr. Rich sees Socko Rockem strike out again on a baseball game on television, and Richie claims he is known for making blunders, the mansion's staff are suddenly involved in blunders afterwards.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Richie! What are you doing?
- Genre
- humor; children; crime
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; Cadbury; unnamed crook
- Synopsis
- Richie uses the four seasons to describe to Gloria a crime being foiled.
Fair Re-Tale
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurry up and get into your costume, Richie--Dad and I will meet you downstairs in 5 minutes!
- Genre
- humor; children; crime; satire-parody
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Richard Rich, Sr.; Chef Pierre; Muggsy Mooknik; unnamed police officers
- Synopsis
- A parody of the Grimm fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", the Riches dress in bear costumes for a masquerade party. Later, a hungry intruder eats a meal already prepared for the Riches, complaining about quality of steak, sits in a chair which collapses, then heads to a bedroom to sleep. Assuming they were real bears, the Riches caught the intruder in the act.
Reggie the Unbeliever
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...fortunately I calculated swiftly that the meteorite wouldn't quite strike the yacht and prevailed upon the captain and the passengers not to panic!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; Cadbury;
- Synopsis
- Reggie claims that Cadbury's stories about his actions are untrue; but Reggie decides to put it to the test by playing pranks, forcing Cadbury to deter them, thus debunking Reggie's claims.
Keeping Fit with Money
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mom, who's that running around our gold fountain?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Uncle Loot; unnamed men (robots); unnamed elderly woman (robot)
- Synopsis
- Richie's uncle, Loot, is obsessed with keeping fit, especially around money. But thanks to Richie's robots posing as humans, Loot learns a valuable lesson as to why his fitness obsession and money do not mix.
Bad Weather Country
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich, Sr.; Regina Rich; Cadbury
- Synopsis
- Richie and Cadbury fly to South America to view Mr. Rich's new estate, but encounter thick clouds along the way. Cadbury tries to eliminate them, but ends up causing more bad weather in another form, which Cadbury makes good use of. Upon arrival, they set up a weather controller with a large diamond attached to it, and successfully evaporate the thick clouds.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, here comes that awful show-off, Penelope Cashola! She's so money-crazy!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Penelope Cashola
- Synopsis
- Richie's cousin, Penelope, shows off her jewels, causing Richie to get bored. But when she discovers her hair is messed up, she wants to go to a mirror, but Richie brings her to a gigantic diamond that gives off a reflection.
Give a Little Whistle
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dot! Isn't there a prize in that box of Cracker Dots?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mr. Polka; unnamed male drivers; unnamed police officers; unnamed dog catcher; Lefty; Lefty's unnamed sidekick; unnamed bank tellers; unnamed doctor
- Synopsis
- Dot accidentally swallows a whistle while she doesn't care about the prize and pours the contents in a box of Cracker Dots into her mouth. While en route to the doctor's office, Dot's whistle causes trouble, and eventually put to good use by foiling a bank robbery.
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; unnamed farmer
- Synopsis
- Lotta discovers a tractor tire at a farm near a swimming hole, which she mistakes for an inflatable toy.
[no title indexed]
Little Dot / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Polka, I thought you said Dot was a crack shot!
- Genre
- humor; children; sports
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Chuck; Mr. Polka
- Synopsis
- During skeet shooting, Dot fails every time, but successfully shoots a clay pigeon. This is because the targets she missed are dot-shaped and she refused to shoot them even in self-defense.
The Red Box
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chee! I put on another six pounds, pa!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta];
- Synopsis
- Lotta's father buys her daughter a red box puzzle in an effort to keep her away from food after gaining six pounds. But the puzzle had a prize inside: a coupon for a free hero sandwich every day for two weeks, much to Mr. Plump's dismay.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hee hee! Does that mean I'm going to cash a dollar-phin?"]
Richie Rich Millions -
1.
The Slump!
Richie Rich -
2.
["Hi, Richie! What are you doing?"]
Richie Rich -
3.
Fair Re-Tale
Richie Rich -
4.
Reggie the Unbeliever
Richie Rich -
5.
Keeping Fit with Money
Richie Rich -
6.
Bad Weather Country
Richie Rich -
7.
["Oh, here comes that awful show-off, Penelope Cashola! She's so money-crazy!"]
Richie Rich -
8.
Give a Little Whistle
Little Dot -
9.
["Oh, boy!"]
Little Lotta -
10.
["Polka, I thought you said Dot was a crack shot!"]
Little Dot -
11.
The Red Box
Little Lotta
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Thomas Johnson
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Jonathan Seaward
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