Issue | #11 |
Published | Summer 1959 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 84 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps; Little Jughead Jones; Pop Tate |
Genre | humor; children |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Dilton Doily; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; Evelyn Evernever |
Synopsis | When the girls are beating the boys at a scavenger hunt, Little Archie scares away Evelyn, who's guarding the girls' findings, by making her think a ghost is after her. The boys then hide their plunder -- including several dogs and cats -- in Little Archie's house. They don't count on Mr. Andrews coming home early from work. And after the girls get their animals back, Mr. Andrews offers a twenty-five cent reward to whoever brings him Little Archie. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Ludwig La Stanza; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Ruben; Sheldon Broadbeam |
Synopsis | Mr. Weatherbee asks Ludwig La Stanza to conduct the Good Ol' Gang's orchestra in his composition, "Wet Sneaker Serenade," on Parent-Teacher Night. Ludwig can't get the right sound out of the orchestra until he gets the idea of adding live animals, two chickens and a pig, to the orchestra. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | First appearance of Ludwig La Stanza, Bolling's short-lived answer to Schroeder from "Peanuts." |
Characters | Little Scout; Egbert |
Synopsis | Scout goes bowling. |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Samm Schwartz |
Pencils | Samm Schwartz |
Inks | Samm Schwartz |
Letters | Samm Schwartz |
Characters | Shrimpy; Brando |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Joe Harold |
Pencils | Joe Harold |
Notes | The first of many appearances in this title by "Shrimpy," Archie Comics' thinly-disguised copy of "Peanuts." (Shrimpy is even referred to as "George Smith" in this strip.) The strip appeared in several Archie titles for the next few years, before being retired and replaced by the old standby "Li'l Jinx." |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Dilton Doily; Ambrose Pipps; Evelyn Evernever; Pop Tate |
Synopsis | After Fred tells the kids that they should settle dispute democratically instead of with fighting, Little Archie and Reggie run against each other in an election for "Boss of the West Side." The results are a tie, but there's one kid who hasn't voted yet: Ambrose. |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Pipps; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews |
Synopsis | Ambrose wants a dollar to buy Little Archie Giant Comics (which apparently are a comic book in this world too) and sees his opportunity when Mr. Andrews offers a prize of a dollar to the first person who guesses the killer in a new movie. |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Ambrose Pipps; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason |
Synopsis | After Little Archie hits a ball through Mr. Weatherbee's window, he and the boys try to use disguises to get home without being caught. |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Caramel |
Synopsis | Little Archie rescues Betty's cat Caramel from a tree. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Synopsis | Article on owls. |
Genre | fact; nature |
Pencils | Ken Hultgren |
Inks | Ken Hultgren |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Evelyn Evernever; Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; Teddy; Evelyn's friend |
Synopsis | The kids decide to hold a pet show, with the winner's owner getting a ticket to the circus. Evelyn, who desperately wants to see the "lovely ladies" at the circus but doesn't have a pet, tries to attract a cat with a fish skeleton. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose's cousin |
Synopsis | The boys take Ambrose's money to help finance their health-club business, and then fire him. Ambrose starts a cake and cookie business with his cousin, and attracts all the kids who would rather be fat and happy than healthy. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Caramel |
Synopsis | A mouse is chased by Caramel, who is chased by Spotty, who is chased by Little Archie. And someone else chases them all away. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | An early example of one of Bolling's favorite layout methods: long, page-wide panels stacked directly on top of each other with no separation. |
Genre | fact; history |
Pencils | Ken Hultgren |
Inks | Ken Hultgren |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Ludwig La Stanza; Little Moose Mason |
Synopsis | Fred has to go on a diet because Little Archie, being ashamed of his father's weight, won't go on walks with him anymore. But when he sees three freshly-baked mince pies out in the woods, he takes them and eats two of them. Ambrose, who was bringing the pies to the gang's pie auction, gets his deerstalker cap and magnifying glass and tries to solve the mystery of who stole the pies. He gets the evidence he needs when he sees Fred hiding the last of the three pies. Little Archie is crushed to discover that his dad might be a pie thief, while Fred tries to replace the stolen pies, all the while repeating his new motto: "You just can't win." |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | This and the following story, "The Shrimp From Outer Space," show Bolling becoming more ambitious in his stories and art, and more willing to explore the relationships of the characters (in this case, Little Archie's relationship with his dad). Ludwig La Stanza hums the rhythm of the theme from the show "Dragnet" when Ambrose first appears as a detective. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Lovely reporter; Sheldon Broadbeam; Ludwig La Stanza |
Synopsis | Little Archie and the Good Ol' Gang build a rocket out of a barrel and a giant slingshot, but can't find anyone who'll volunteer to go to the moon in it. When Ambrose comes by, trying to get into the Good Ol' Gang, the kids promise him that he can be part of the gang if he goes up in the rocket -- and if he comes back alive. |
Genre | humor; children; adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | The splash panel of this story is Bolling's first attempt to use a realistic drawing style (rather than the cartoony style of the story itself) in "Little Archie." |
Reprinted | in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #27 |