Issue | #28 |
Published | Fall 1963 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge |
Genre | adventure; mystery |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Based on the story "The China Doll Mystery." The only Bob Bolling cover based on a Dexter Taylor story. Bolling's signature is omitted from the cover, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; un-named thief; un-named policemen |
Synopsis | While Spotty is at the vet's recovering from an infection, the only thing remaining to warn the Andrews family of an attempted car theft is a little squeak from the rusty garage door. As the thief drives away with their car, Little Archie hops on his bike and tries to catch the crook himself. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Synopsis | Another version of the old fortune-telling machine joke ("It got your weight wrong too!"). |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Tad; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Jarvis; Officer O'Beez; un-named policemen; un-named frogs |
Synopsis | Tad, a friendly but snobbish frog from planet Sog, comes to Earth to take notes on the inferior human race. He meets Little Archie, who brings Tad to a costume party at the Lodge house, so that he can observe humans while everyone thinks he's a kid in a costume. But when Tad begins pocketing the silverware to bring back as samples to his home planet, Mr. Lodge thinks he's the noted disguise-wearing criminal Midgit Morris. |
Genre | humor; fantasy; science fiction |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Jaime Hernández named this as one of his favorite Bob Bolling stories (in the book "In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists"). In a digest reprint, the name of Jarvis (Mr. Lodge's butler in this story) was changed to the butler's usual name, Smithers. |
Synopsis | Article on child star Hayley Mills. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Spotty; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Pop Tate; Mary's father; Fred's father; Lori Day; Geraldine Grundy |
Synopsis | To teach Little Archie that he should be nicer to Betty, both his parents tell him the story of how they first became interested in each other. But they both tell completely different stories. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Synopsis | Li'l Jinx writes a letter. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Coach Kleats |
Synopsis | The teachers try to get Little Archie more physically active by having a race. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Dilton Doiley; Fatty Fuller; Weasel Williams |
Synopsis | Little Archie waits outside the school to collect a debt from Mushy Miller, but he doesn't seem as anxious to shake down the other kids he lent money to. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Ambrose Pipps; Geraldine Grundy |
Synopsis | One-panel gags with the Little Archie gang. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Notes | The last appearance of Ambrose (who had already been dropped from the main stories) in the original run of "Little Archie." He returned in the '80s. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Susan Johnson; Mr. Johnson; Mr. Johnson |
Synopsis | Little Archie stays with the Johnsons, and Mr. Johnson is driven crazy waiting for Little Archie to cause some kind of disaster. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Professor Chu; un-named shopkeeper; un-named cook |
Synopsis | After Ronnie buys a small statue in a china shop, a mysterious stranger follows Ronnie, Mr. Lodge and Little Archie to the Lodge house and tries to steal the statue by any means necessary. |
Genre | adventure; mystery |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Chick Cooper; Fred Andrews; un-named policeman |
Synopsis | Little Archie and Betty are riding in a truck with Betty's brother Chick. When the brakes get jammed and the truck crashes, they escape unharmed because they were wearing seat belts. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Notes | This story encourages the readers to wear seat belts, which were still not widely used at the time. |
Synopsis | Article on Elvis Presley. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Beazly |
Synopsis | Jughead explains that he thinks about other things besides food. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |