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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published Summer 1962
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Richard Goldwater
Notes With this issue, the title was reduced from 84 to 68 pages.

Cover Details - "I don't care if you are the toughest kid in town..."

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; un-named bully
Genre humor; adventure
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes The scene depicted on this cover does not appear anywhere in the issue (or any other); it's just a way to show Little Archie as a heroic character. Little Betty and Veronica have been re-designed a bit as of this cover; Betty now sports a ponytail like her teen counterpart.

10 page Little Archie story "Venus Revisited"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Herbnik; Greenback Klutchum; Waldo Pinckley; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; un-named Venusians
Synopsis On the planet Venus, a Venusian named Herbnik invents the BaBongos, and plays music that is unacceptable to his people. He decides to leave Venus and travels to Earth, where Little Archie saves his life by getting him a drink of ammonia. Little Archie then sets up a meeting between Herbnik and the talented talent agent Mr. Greenback Klutchum, who turns Herbnik into an Earth-wide musical star. But when humans start copying Herbnik's music, Earthlings reject him in favor of musicians who look like them.
Genre humor; science fiction
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes A combination of science-fiction and satire of the music business. Herbnik's musical downfall is an obvious reference to the copying of African-American music by white performers in the late '50s.

1 page Little Archie cartoon "One Panel Jokes With Little Archie"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis Four one-panel cartoons.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

8 page Polly story "Ga Ga Over Gary"

Characters Little Betty Cooper; Polly Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Gary Grover; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis Betty's big sister Polly gets a date with Gary Grover, "the most popular boy in the whole junior class." To go on the date, she has to break her promise to make a dress for Betty's doll.
Genre humor
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes First appearance of Polly Cooper. She would have her own story in each of the next three issues, plus another story in Little Archie # 36. She was brought into the "big" Archie continuity in the late '80s.

1 page Little Archie cartoon "Silent Stuff With Little Archie"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Spotty
Synopsis Four silent one-panel cartoons.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

2 page text article "Samuel F.B. Morse"

Synopsis Article on the inventor of the telegraph.
Genre fact; history
Letters Typeset

Half page Shrimpy filler "Medically Speaking!"

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

Half page Shrimpy filler "Seeing the Light!"

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

Half page Shrimpy filler "Puddle Muddle!"

Characters Shrimpy; Cousin Kim
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Harold
Pencils Joe Harold

7 page Little Archie story "Spotty Gets the Bird"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; un-named bird; un-named cat
Synopsis Spotty is jealous of a bird that Little Archie adopts.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

4 page Little Archie story "Get the Picture"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis The girls try to get Jughead to put on nice clothes for the school photo.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Archie story "Space Shot"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis Little Archie plays spaceman.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

5 page Li'l Jinx story "Hits and Misses"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; GaGa; Greg; Charley Hawse
Synopsis Everyone is nice to Li'l Jinx.
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

8 page Little Archie story "Love Thy Neighbor"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Susan Johnson
Synopsis A new family moves into Little Archie's neighborhood, and when Little Archie tries to help them carry their things into the house, he drives the father crazy.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor
Notes First appearance of the Johnson family. Mr. Johnson was Dexter Taylor's attempt to create his own version of Mr. Wilson from "Dennis the Menace."

10 page Little Archie story "The Law and Hermit Harper"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Hermit Harper; un-named policemen; un-named doctor
Synopsis Little Archie is bitten by a dog owned by a paranoid hermit. The police need to get the man to give them his dog for a rabies test.
Genre adventure
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor