Issue | #38 |
Published | Spring 1966 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge |
Genre | humor; adventure; fantasy |
Pencils | Bob Bolling |
Inks | Bob Bolling |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | Though Betty and Veronica appear on the cover, they don't appear in the actual story. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Detective Parker; Millionaire Dibbledock; un-named clerk |
Synopsis | Mad Doctor Doom creates a machine that can control tornadoes, and uses it to destroy Riverdale's newly-completed Dibbledock Towers. He begins to blackmail wealthy businessmen, and uses the remote-controlled tornadoes to collect the ransom money. The police don't believe Little Archie's insistence that the "harmless nut" Mad Doctor Doom is behind this reign of terror. So it's once again up to that "meddlesome brat" to foil Doom's plans himself, using two things: the gold bars Doom has collected as ransom, and Chester's huge supply of "Icky Slicky" hair oil. |
Genre | humor; adventure; fantasy |
Script | Bob Bolling |
Pencils | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Inks | Bob Bolling (signed) |
Letters | Bob Bolling |
Notes | This was the last Little Archie story for many years by the title's creator, Bob Bolling. He was transferred to the "big" Archie titles after this, with Dexter Taylor handling the Little Archie title almost exclusively. Bolling drew (but didn't write) one Little Archie story in the early '70s, and finally returned to the title on a semi-regular basis starting in Little Archie # 142. This was also the last appearance of Mad Doctor Doom in Little Archie for many years. He briefly became a recurring villain in Archie superhero stories. He and Chester reappeared in a Dexter Taylor story in Little Archie # 136, and Bolling returned to the characters in the mid-'80s. |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy |
Synopsis | Little Archie brings a parakeet to school. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot |
Synopsis | Little Archie and Jughead build an ant farm as their science project, but the "ants" are actually termites. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy |
Synopsis | The kids discuss their favorite rings. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Pierre; Brownie |
Synopsis | Little Archie and his father return to Moosehorn Lumber Camp, where Pierre is injured while trying to protect his dog Brownie from a wolverine. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Notes | The camp, and the character of Pierre, first appeared in Bob Bolling's story "Cougar" (Little Archie # 15). Pierre mentions that Little Archie saved his life in that story. |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg |
Synopsis | Li'l Jinx's daddy makes her stand in the corner and think about what she did, but instead she lets her imagination run wild. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle |
Synopsis | Little Archie and Jughead put on a puppet show consisting mostly of jokes about Reggie. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Greg; Sylvester |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Little Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; un-named woman |
Synopsis | Mr. Lodge takes Ronnie and Little Archie to the seaside, where he is planning to build a resort at the site of an old abandoned lighthouse. A mysterious woman appears to warn the children of a giant sea monster who will appear there in search of food. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Dexter Taylor |
Pencils | Dexter Taylor |
Inks | Dexter Taylor |
Letters | Dexter Taylor |