Issue Details

Issue	#12
Published	Fall 1959
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	84
Editing	Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Ronnie's Bakery"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
Genre	humor; children
Pencils	Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks	Bob Bolling (signed)

11 page Little Archie story "The Famous Flyer"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Ambrose Pipps; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Evelyn Evernever; Mrs. Cooper; Chick Cooper
Synopsis	Little Archie becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming famous, and takes to heart his father's advice that to become famous he needs to be a "good mixer." After getting advice from Chick Cooper on how to build model planes, Little Archie gets one of his "fran-tastical ideas": he'll become famous by building and flying a full-sized airplane based on Chick's instructions. Meanwhile, the girls try to make the world's biggest mud pie.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Bob Bolling
Pencils	Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks	Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters	Bob Bolling
Notes	In this issue, Spotty is colored grey instead of his usual color.

9 page Little Ambrose story "The Handsome Ransom"

Characters	Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
Synopsis	The kids find a note from Ambrose saying that he's being held for ransom by the South Side Serpents. After the girls accuse them of being too "sissy" to go after him, the boys set out to rescue Ambrose and wind up being captured by the Serpents themselves.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Archie story "One For the Books"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis	Little Archie stands on a stack of books to reach the cookies his mother made.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

6 page Little Archie story "It's An Old Saying"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Doctor Throb
Synopsis	Trying to get Little Archie to go to the dentist, Fred uses a lot of wise old sayings. Unfortunately, it's the dentist who uses the old sayings on him when it turns out Fred's teeth need more work than Little Archie's.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Bob Bolling
Pencils	Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks	Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters	Bob Bolling

1 page Nature's Notebook text article "The Musk Ox"

Genre	fact; nature
Pencils	Ken Hultgren
Inks	Ken Hultgren
Letters	Typeset

10 page Little Archie and the Good Ol' Gang story "Brain Boobs"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Svenson; Waldo Weatherbee
Synopsis	The boys try to steal the girls' ice cream and cake, first by capturing Ambrose, then by fooling Evelyn into trading them the goodies for a "brain box" that they claim can give the right answer to any question.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

Half page Little Archie story "Will you put this sign up for my doggy"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

1 page Caramel story "TV Time"

Characters	Little Betty Cooper; Caramel; Mrs. Cooper; Mrs. Crump
Synopsis	A guest at the Cooper house is amused to see Caramel staring intently at the TV set.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Bob Bolling
Pencils	Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks	Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters	Bob Bolling

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Miss Helpful!"

Characters	Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Merry Holliday
Genre	children; humor
Script	Joe Edwards
Pencils	Joe Edwards
Inks	Joe Edwards
Letters	Joe Edwards

2 page Little Archie activity "Balloon Round-Up!"

Characters

Little Archie Andrews

10 page Little Archie story "The Beauty and the Boat"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Evelyn Evernever; Sheldon Broadbeam
Synopsis	Little Archie and Jughead take Evelyn up on her suggestion to start a sightseeing boat tour on Carson's Creek, but reject her offer to be the tour's "boo-ful" main attraction.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

1 page Evelyn Evernever story "The Glamour Gal of the West Side"

Characters	Evelyn Evernever; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis	All the kids bring in scrapbooks of something near and dear to them, and Evelyn's is filled with pictures of herself.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

Half page Shrimpy filler "The Wide Open Spaces"

Characters	Brando; Peggy
Genre	children; humor
Script	Joe Harold
Pencils	Joe Harold

Half page Shrimpy filler "News Story"

Characters	Shrimpy; Peggy
Genre	children; humor
Script	Joe Harold
Pencils	Joe Harold

1 page American Heritage text article "Big Guns For Washington"

Genre	fact; history
Pencils	Ken Hultgren
Inks	Ken Hultgren
Letters	Typeset

4 page Little Archie story "The Big Move"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Pop Tate; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis	All the kids are nice to Ambrose when they hear that he and his family are moving.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

Half page Little Archie story "Lesson Learned"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis	Little Archie prepares to give Ronnie a lesson.
Genre	children; humor
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

Half page Little Archie story "Picnic Party"

Characters	Little Archie Andrews;Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis	For once Jughead doesn't eat before everyone else does on a picnic.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Dexter Taylor
Pencils	Dexter Taylor
Inks	Dexter Taylor
Letters	Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Veronica activity "Little Veronica Fun Page"

Characters	Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis	Cut-out dresses for Ronnie.
Genre	children; humor

Half page Pipsqueak filler "The Rules"

Characters	Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
Genre	children; humor
Script	Walt Lardner
Pencils	Walt Lardner
Inks	Walt Lardner
Letters	Walt Lardner

Half page Pipsqueak filler "Thinner"

Characters	Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
Genre	children; humor
Script	Walt Lardner
Pencils	Walt Lardner
Inks	Walt Lardner
Letters	Walt Lardner

11 page Ambrose story "A Fishy Marriage"

Characters	Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever; Bubbles McBounce
Synopsis	The boys glumly realize that someday they'll grow up and get married to girls, like most guys do. Ambrose is determined to devote his life to fishing instead of getting married, but the girls tell him they've already picked out his future wife: Bubbles McBounce, an obsese girl who just moved to the West Side. While Ambrose's mother tells him that someday he'll want to get married when he finds a girl who understand him, the boys start fighting over the right to marry Bubbles, who is despondent when she realizes that they only want her because her father owns McBounce's ice cream parlor.
Genre	humor; children
Script	Bob Bolling
Pencils	Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks	Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters	Bob Bolling
Notes	First appearance of Bubbles McBounce.