(October 1976)
Harvey,
1976 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1976-07-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey World
Issue Notes
On-sale date confirmed from publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 30, Part 2, Number 2, Periodicals, July-December 1976. Copyright number B146667.
The Richest Poor Kid in the World: Part 1
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Pee Wee Friendly; TV commercial producers
- Synopsis
- After Richie retrieves a coin from a storm sewer, a TV producer is looking for a young, poor kid to star in a TV commercial, which Richie accepts. Every time Richie retrieves money or jewels, he keeps it for himself or people come looking for it.
Indexer Notes
Part 1 of 2.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, mom! Some crooks are coming after us!
- Genre
- humor; children; crime
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Regina Rich; crooks
The Poor Kid Part 2: Camera... Action!
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Pee Wee Friendly; TV commercial producers; Cadbury; Regina Rich; Richard Rich, Sr.
- Synopsis
- Production of a commercial gets impacted by a robbery, which Richie repeatedly attempts to foil, and the actions get filmed.
Indexer Notes
Conclusion of a two-part story.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's go over to my place today, Gloria!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad
- Synopsis
- After Richie and Gloria walk past a flower shop, Gloria wants Richie to buy her a bouquet, but Richie has something bigger in mind; he gives her one giant-sized flower!
- Reprints
-
from Richie Rich Millions (Harvey, 1961 series) #7 (December 1963) - in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- Flowers
[no title indexed]
Little Dot / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dot, I'd like to give you this punching bag! It's too light for me!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dot Polka; Lotta Plump
- Synopsis
- Lotta gives Dot a punching bag since it serves no purpose for Lotta.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich Millions (Harvey, 1961 series) #7 (December 1963)
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
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The Time Machine
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; Mr. Codger; Adventurers Club members; Cadbury
- Synopsis
- Mr. Codger shows off his invention: a portable time machine. Reggie decides to take advantage of it by going back to the prehistoric era to gather some live dinosaurs for exhibit at the zoo of the Adventurers Club.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich Millions (Harvey, 1961 series) #7 (December 1963)
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- dinosaurs; prehistoric; time travel
Indexer Notes
Story continues into "Time Marches Back!"
This story is not to be confused with an earlier 5-page story "The Time Machine", which involves Richie traveling back to the medieval era.
Time Marches Back!
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; Cadbury; cavemen
- Synopsis
- While in prehistoric times, Richie and Reggie are threatened by live dinosaurs. Cadbury drives his limousine through Codger's time machine, and later the three get abducted by cavemen and escorted into their cave.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- dinosaurs; prehistoric; Time travel
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "The Time Machine" and continues into "The Animals".
The Animals
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough; Cadbury; cavemen; Adventurers Club members; Mr. Codger
- Synopsis
- Richie finds ways to distract the cavemen so that he, Reggie and Cadbury could escape and head back to the 20th century. Reggie is thrilled when live dinosaurs are following them as they made their journey to the 20th century, and Reggie now has the greatest contribution to the Adventurers Club ever made, only for them to see dinosaur skeletons. Meanwhile, Codger's time machine was destroyed on his own free will because he needed the parts for a more useful invention.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- dinosaurs; prehistoric; time travel
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Time Marches Back!", which continued from "The Time Machine".
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gerald and I are going to eat in the woods, mom!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump; Mrs. Plump; Gerald
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
The Cherry Tree
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children; history
- Characters
- Dot Polka; Lotta Plump; Mr. Polka; George Washington
- Synopsis
- After Mr. Polka decides to chop down his cherry tree due to being worn and eaten by insects, Dot dozes off and dreams about Washington's adventures, with Lotta playing George Washington, Mr. Plump playing Washington's father, and Lotta's friends as her team crosses the Delaware River, and crashes into an iceberg, causing Dot to suddenly wake up, and then accuses Lotta for chopping down the cherry tree, even though it was really a lumberjack who did the job.
- Reprints
- from Richie Rich Millions (Harvey, 1961 series) #7 (December 1963)
- in Richie Rich Money World (Harvey, 1972 series) #55 (January 1982)
-
Private Eyesore
Richie Rich / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children; crime
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Reggie Van Dough
- Reprints
- from Little Dot (Harvey, 1953 series) #119 (October 1968)
-
The Expert
Little Lotta / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump; used car salesman; customer; Mr. Plump
- Synopsis
- After noticing a prospective buyer testing out a car's durability by kicking and slapping it, Lotta believes she can do better. But little does she know that her attempts are actually harmful and not useful. Lotta discovers her father has an aching neck, and wants to help her out, but Lotta thinks twice, and decides to get liniment instead, likely out of fear that her being physical could lead to consequences.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Riches (Harvey, 1972 series) #56 (January 1982)
-
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hmm!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich
- Synopsis
- Richie tries to find a way to make his bed of flowers look better. He discovers an art auction, and bids $50,000 for the work of art, for which it is sold; but Richie buys the art just for the gold frame - for the purpose of surrounding the flower bed.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Riches (Harvey, 1972 series) #56 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- flowers
[no title indexed]
Little Dot / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dot, it looks like rain tonight! You'd better bring in your doll house!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dot Polka; Mrs. Polka
- Synopsis
- Mrs. Polka wants Dot to bring in her metal dollhouse because of a looming rainstorm, and was concerned about rust. The next morning, the dollhouse was rusted - but much to her delight, because the rusty specks resemble little dots.
- Reprints
- in Richie Rich Riches (Harvey, 1972 series) #56 (January 1982)
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Art Appreciation
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Freckles Friendly; Pee Wee Friendly; Ms. Turpentine
- Synopsis
- The art teacher, Ms. Turpentine, appreciates art so much, her lectures go overboard and the boys get quite bored over it.
[no title indexed]
Richie Rich / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, dad!
- Genre
- humor; children; crime
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Richard Rich, Sr.; Dollar; crooks
- Synopsis
- Richie comes into the living room wearing a moose head designed for a school play, which startles his father. Richie then lays the head on a table, but later that night, crooks attempt to abduct Dollar by luring him, but he knocks his head and the moose head falls on Dollar's head, and scares the crooks away, thinking it was a live moose.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hi! Curtain going up on a big new Richie book!"]
Richie Rich Zillionz -
1.
The Richest Poor Kid in the World: Part 1
Richie Rich -
2.
["Look, mom! Some crooks are coming after us!"]
Richie Rich -
3.
The Poor Kid Part 2: Camera... Action!
Richie Rich -
4.
["Let's go over to my place today, Gloria!"]
Richie Rich -
5.
["Dot, I'd like to give you this punching bag! It's too light for me!"]
Little Dot -
6.
The Time Machine
Richie Rich -
7.
Time Marches Back!
Richie Rich -
8.
The Animals
Richie Rich -
9.
["Gerald and I are going to eat in the woods, mom!"]
Little Lotta -
10.
The Cherry Tree
Little Dot -
11.
Private Eyesore
Richie Rich -
12.
The Expert
Little Lotta -
13.
["Hmm!"]
Richie Rich -
14.
["Dot, it looks like rain tonight! You'd better bring in your doll house!"]
Little Dot -
15.
Art Appreciation
Richie Rich -
16.
["Hello, dad!"]
Richie Rich -
17.
The Big Supply
Nurse Jenny
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Jonathan Seaward
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