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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harry Shorten
Notes This issue marks the first appearance of Little Archie. In his interview with Gary Brown in Comic Book Artist (March 2004), Little Archie's creator Bob Bolling recalled that editor Harry Shorten called him in and said "I want you to do a book of Archie as a little boy, but before you do, I want you to do some sketches and I'm going to mail them to [publisher] John Goldwater." Bolling designed the Archie characters as children, and once they were approved by Shorten and Goldwater, he wrote and drew the entire first issue. Bob Bolling told Gary Brown that Bob White inked most of this issue.

Cover Details - "No! You're not seeing things! This is really Archie when he was a little kid!"

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

7 page Little Archie story "Hunting"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis After Archie's mom asks him to stop playing hunter inside the house, he and his friends go outside to hunt wild animals, and come upon a snapping turtle.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob White
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes The characters call the title character "Archie" in these early stories. In later stories this would change, and he would always be addressed as "Little Archie."

4 page Little Archie story "Racing"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Archie builds an "imported Italian sports racer" for the soapbox derby.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob White
Letters Bob Bolling

10 page Little Archie story "Playing House"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis Archie and Ronnie play house and fight even more than real married couples; Betty tries to get in on the act by marrying her cat to Archie's dog.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob White
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes First appearance of Betty's cat, who would later be named "Caramel." Little Archie's dog would soon be re-designed and evolve into his regular dog, Spotty.

7 page Little Archie story "Troops"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis General Archie and Sergeant Moose try to prevent Ronnie from joining their army, but she gains the troops' loyalty with her "secret orders."
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob White
Letters Bob Bolling