Issue | #26 |
Published | Spring 1963 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Officer O'Beez; Shakey; Fingers; Mr. Cooper |
Synopsis | Little Archie gets a movie camera and unwittingly films two wanted criminals outside a store they're planning to rob. To ensure that they won't be identified after the robbery, the crooks try to get the camera away from Little Archie, first by theft, then by bribery, and finally by force. |
Genre | humor; adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | The end of the story shows Little Archie taking up stamp collecting, one of Bolling's own hobbies. Mr. Cooper is named "Henry" in this story. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Harry McTwinge; Trouble Dragon |
Synopsis | When Little Archie is annoyed at all the things that have been going wrong for him, a Demon appears to make him an offer: if he fights and defeats his entire lifetime of troubles, in the form of a dragon, he'll never have any trouble again. |
Genre | humor; fantasy |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Colors | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his. |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Polly Cooper; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Danny; Little Archie Andrews |
Synopsis | Mr. Cooper promises to buy Polly the five-dollar blouse she wants if she helps him to stay on his diet. So Polly enlists her boyfriend Danny to help her come up with some ingenious ways to keep her father away from food. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | One of the earliest examples of a technique Bolling would use a lot in later stories: including a caption at the very end that fills us in on what happened after the story ended. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Evelyn Evernever |
Synopsis | Evelyn shows Archie her pet muskrat, but Little Archie insists that an animal with such a flat, wide tail must be a beaver. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his. Last appearance of Evelyn Evernever in the original Little Archie comics (she would later appear in some "big" Archie stories). |
Genre | fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; un-named auctioneer; un-named Swiss man; un-named goat |
Synopsis | Fred buys a Swiss music box at an auction, and discovers that it has a tiny Swiss goatherd and goat inside. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Bagly |
Synopsis | Reggie tries to get Little Archie into trouble, but everything he tries seems to wind up making Little Archie more popular with the teachers. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; George Washington; un-named historical characters |
Synopsis | When Little Archie refuses to eat his fish, Fred tells him the story of an Andrews ancestor whose love of fish helped to save the American troops at Valley Forge. |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Susan Johnson; Jumbo Jones; Spotty |
Synopsis | Little Archie's babysitter, Susan, is trapped in a relationship with a big, conceited boy named "Jumbo" Jones, who won't let any other man near her. Little Archie comes up with a way to scare Jumbo away from Susan. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy |
Synopsis | Miss Grundy sees Little Archie's face everywhere. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; un-named mailman |
Synopsis | Little Archie spends the whole day playing mean tricks on Ronnie. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |