Issue | #2 |
Published | [March] 2008 |
Cover Price | 9.95 USD |
Pages | 100 |
Editing | Paul Castiglia (compilation editor); Mike Pellerito (managing editor); Joe Pep (art director); Stephen Oswald (production associate); Carlos Antunes (production associate); Joe Morciglio (production associate) |
Notes | ISBN 978-1-879794-28-3. Stories "previously published and copyrighted by Archie Comic Publications, Inc. (or its predecessors) in magazine form in 1974-2008". Compilation copyright 2008 Archie Comic Publications, Inc. Month of release per the publisher. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Chester Punkett; Mad Doctor Doom |
Genre | Children |
Script | Paul Castiglia ? |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Jim Amash (signed) |
Colors | Rosario "Tito" Peña |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Masthead on first interior page credits cover art to Bob Bolling and Bob Smith, but the cover is clearly signed by Bolling and Amash. Front of wraparound cover is illustration referencing the first story; back continues illustration (broken by text on spine) with ISBN, bar code, price, and blurb about contents. |
Characters | Mad Doctor Doom |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Notes | The inside front cover features an enlarged detail from Pg. 15 of the first story. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper |
Letters | ? (design); typeset |
Notes | The first interior page presents the book's editorial and production credits plus indicia within an illustration. |
Pencils | Bob Bolling; ? |
Inks | Bob Bolling; ? |
Letters | ? (design); typeset |
Notes | Illustration is possibly redrawn composite using some art from the first story. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Chic Cooper; Kimberly Clark; Mr. Andrews [Fred Andrews; Little Archie's father] (cameo); Mrs. Andrews [Mary Andrews; Little Archie's mother] (non-speaking cameo) |
Synopsis | Mad Doctor Doom enlarges a dragonfly to steal an armored car, planning to smuggle it aboard the Pride of Walvis Bay and finance his plans for world domination. Little Archie, helping Chic Cooper with his paper route, ends up at Doom's lair, Crackstone Manor. Soon Archie, Chic, and Kimberly Clark are in an aerial battle with Doom and Chester over the open water. |
Genre | Children; Adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | This a new story published here for the first time. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee [Waldo Weatherbee]; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #85 (April 1974) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Coachie [Coach Kleats]; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy [Geraldine Grundy]; Mr. Weatherbee [Waldo Weatherbee]; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | Little Archie joins the girls' softball team as a laugh, but they teach him a lesson. |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #157 (August 1980) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones [Juggie]; Mr. Lodge [Hiram Lodge; Little Veronica's father]; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper |
Synopsis | Juggie and Little Archie cause trouble when they visit the Lodges' summer house. |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #110 (September 1976) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Dilton Doiley (non-speaking cameo); Miss Grundy [Geraldine Grundy] (non-speaking cameo); Mr. Weatherbee [Waldo Weatherbee] (non-speaking cameo); Little Betty Cooper (non-speaking cameo) |
Synopsis | The square dance that Veronica has helped plan is in jeopardy thanks to Reggie's mistake until Pop Tate steps up as caller with Little Archie and Jughead providing the music. |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #91 (December 1974) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Mimi [full name unknown] (introduction); Miss Grundy [Geraldine Grundy] (cameo); Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Weatherbee [Waldo Weatherbee]; The Great Martino [real name unknown] (introduction) |
Synopsis | Little Archie meets a new girl in town while tossing a football with Reggie. She turns out to be the daughter of The Great Martino, an old friend of Weatherbee's, and invites Archie to participate in a trick during her father's show for the school. |
Genre | Children |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #112 (November 1976) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Lodge [Hiram Lodge; Little Veronica's father]; Little Veronica Lodge; Hubert Smithers [the Lodges' butler]; Mr. Richbucks |
Synopsis | Everything goes wrong when Little Archie visits Veronica just as her father is meeting Mr. Richbucks to sign important contracts. |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #162 (January 1981) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones [Juggie]; Mr. Lodge [Hiram Lodge; Little Veronica's father] (see Notes); Hubert Smithers [the Lodges' butler]; Mrs. Lodge [Hermione Lodge; Little Veronica's mother] (cameo); a vampire |
Synopsis | When Little Archie and Juggie accidentally let Mr. Lodge's parrot loose, they track it to a creepy house and appear to discover a vampire. Joined by Mr. Lodge and Smithers, they learn that the house is being used by crooks to stash stolen goods. |
Genre | Children; Adventure |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Notes | According to the GCD index of the issue from which this story is reprinted, Mr. Lodge's first name was spelled "Hirum" in the initial printing; it is corrected to "Hiram" here. |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #104 (March 1976) |
Characters | Little Veronica Lodge; Sue Stringly; Miss Grundy [Geraldine Grundy]; Pop Feebly; Peggy Clark |
Synopsis | Sue Stringly's Christmas wish is a light for the water tower near her house because ducks flying north and south for the seasons keep hitting it and getting hurt. Veronica ends up trapped on the tower at night, but Sue gets help and publicity for the ducks' plight from roving Riverdale Record reporter Peggy Clark in the bargain. |
Genre | Children; Adventure; Christmas |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Colors | Barry Grossman ? |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Grossman is identified as colorist of this story in the GCD index of the issue from which this story is reprinted, presumably based on credits in the issue, but it is unknown whether the original colors were preserved for the reprint. |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #163 (February 1981) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones [Juggie]; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Lodge [Hiram Lodge; Little Veronica's father] (non-speaking cameo); Hubert Smithers [the Lodges' butler] (non-speaking cameo) |
Synopsis | Little Archie hides inside a huge heart-shaped box that his friends deliver to Veronica's house for Valentine's Day. |
Genre | Children; Humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #85 (April 1974) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Zerk (introduction); Mr. Andrews [Fred Andrews; Little Archie's father]; Mrs. Jones [Gladys Jones; Little Jughead's mother]; Spotty [Little Archie's dog] (cameo); Little Reggie Mantle |
Synopsis | Little Archie is lamenting his homework to Juggie when a strange pink creature falls from the sky and does it for him, then conjures up food for Juggie and cleans the boys' rooms before being reclaimed. |
Genre | Children; Science Fiction |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #162 (January 1981) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Fangs Fogarty; other members of the South-Side Serpents; Chester Punkett; Officer O'Fuzzly |
Synopsis | Little Archie suspects the South-Side Serpents of breaking into the teachers' cars, but when he uncovers the real perpetrator he disrupts the Serpents' baseball game for assistance in giving chase. |
Genre | Children; Adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Colors | Barry Grossman ? |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Grossman is identified as colorist of this story in the GCD index of the issue from which this story is reprinted, presumably based on credits in the issue, but it is unknown whether the original colors were preserved for the reprint. |
Reprinted | from Adventures of Little Archie, The (Archie, 1957 series) #156 (July 1980) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews |
Pencils | Bob Bolling ? |
Inks | Bob Bolling ? |
Letters | ? (design); typeset |
Notes | The last interior page advertises the Archie Americana Series and other collections from the publisher's backlist. |
Characters | Little Archie |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Notes | The inside back cover features an enlarged, altered detail from Pg. 1 of the first story in this book. |