Issue | #27 |
Published | Summer 1963 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews |
Genre | humor; adventure; mystery; children |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Bob Bolling's signature does not appear here, but the art appears to be his. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Caroline Baker; Sandra Fleming; Mr. Fleming; Mrs. Fleming; Jim Farrell; J.P. Knudge; Hob Kane; Coast Guard officer; un-named beachcomber; un-named spy |
Synopsis | Little Archie goes along with his dad on a business trip to the Bahamas, near the site of a planned rocket launch with Caroline Baker, America's first female astronaut. Soon Little Archie discovers that the area is full of spies, American and Russian, and that there's a plot to kidnap Caroline Baker and ensure a Soviet victory in the Space Race. |
Genre | mystery; adventure |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | The story has the same length, format and approach as the "Little Archie Mystery Comics" published that same year (including the device of drawing most of the characters, except Little Archie, in a realistic style). |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Synopsis | Li'l Jinx learns how to test reflexes. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Synopsis | Article on teen star Shelley Fabares. |
Genre | fact; biography |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Ambrose Pipps; Pamela; un-named girl |
Synopsis | Little Archie finds an old pair of glasses that magically turn back time when he puts them on. When the glasses are taken away by a young woman at 210 Oak Street, he is transported back to the present. Investigating, he and his friends go back to 210 Oak Street, now a dilapidated and apparently deserted house. |
Genre | fantasy |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | After this story, Ambrose was dropped from the comic. He would return in the mid-'80s. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews |
Synopsis | Little Archie catches a fish. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee |
Synopsis | Mr. Weatherbee tells Little Archie to get in shape. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Notes | One of several Archie comics stories around this time that reference President Kennedy's call for young people to excercise more. |
Characters | Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; Plato Potts; un-named principal; un-named host |
Synopsis | Mr. Weatherbee enters Jughead in a televised quiz competition with Stoneyburg Grammar School. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Spotty; un-named fleas; un-named circus performers |
Synopsis | A troupe of performing fleas settles on Spotty. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Greg |
Synopsis | Greg will do anything for ice cream. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Synopsis | Article on pop star Tommy Sands. |
Genre | fact; biography |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; un-named adults |
Synopsis | Little Archie has to chain Spotty up outside the school. Chasing a rabbit, Spotty pulls the chain out of the ground and escapes, but then gets chained to the train tracks. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |