Volume: 1
Price: 0.25 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1962-04-25
Editing: Richard H. Goldwater (credited) (managing editor); John L. Goldwater (credited) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #23 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Little Archie / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I don't care if you are the toughest kid in town, nobody picks on my girls!
Characters:
unnamed bully

Indexer 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.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

With this issue, the title was reduced from 84 to 68 pages. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Venus Revisited
(Table of Contents: 1)

Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children; science fiction
Characters:
Herbnik; Greenback Klutchum; Waldo Pinckley; unnamed 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.
Reprints (2)

Indexer 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.

One Panel Jokes with Little Archie
(Table of Contents: 2)

Little Archie / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Synopsis:
Four one-panel cartoons.
Reprints (1)

Ga Ga Over Gary
(Table of Contents: 3)

Polly / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks:
Bob Bolling (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Gary Grover
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.
Reprints (2)

Indexer 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.

Silent Stuff with Little Archie
(Table of Contents: 4)

Little Archie / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Synopsis:
Four silent one-panel cartoons.
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Samuel F. B. Morse
(Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1.75 pages

Script:
?
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?
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?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction; history
Synopsis:
Article on the inventor of the telegraph.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page

Script:
Louis H. Silberkleit (credited) (publisher)
Letters:
typeset

Medically Speaking!
(Table of Contents: 7)

Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Reprints (2)

Seeing the Light!
(Table of Contents: 8)

Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
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Puddle Muddle!
(Table of Contents: 9)

Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Cousin Kim
Reprints (1)

Spotty Gets the Bird
(Table of Contents: 10)

Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; un-named bird; un-named cat
Synopsis:
Spotty is jealous of a bird that Little Archie adopts.
Reprints (3)

Get the Picture
(Table of Contents: 11)

Little Archie / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Synopsis:
The girls try to get Jughead to put on nice clothes for the school photo.
Reprints (1)

Class Picture
(Table of Contents: 12)

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Reprints (1)

Space Shot
(Table of Contents: 13)

Little Archie / comic story / 1 page

Script:
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Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Synopsis:
Little Archie plays spaceman.
Reprints (2)

Hits and Misses
(Table of Contents: 14)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
GaGa
Synopsis:
Everyone is nice to Li'l Jinx.
Reprints (1)

Love Thy Neighbor
(Table of Contents: 15)

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; children
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.
Reprints (2)

Indexer 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."

The Law and Hermit Harper
(Table of Contents: 16)

Little Archie / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; children
Characters:
Hermit Harper; unnamed policemen; unnamed 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.
Reprints (2)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["I don't care if you are the toughest kid in town, nobody picks on my girls!"]
    Little Archie
  2. Venus Revisited
    Little Archie
  3. One Panel Jokes with Little Archie
    Little Archie
  4. Ga Ga Over Gary
    Polly
  5. Silent Stuff with Little Archie
    Little Archie
  6. Samuel F. B. Morse
  7. [no title indexed]
  8. Medically Speaking!
    Shrimpy
  9. Seeing the Light!
    Shrimpy
  10. Puddle Muddle!
    Shrimpy
  11. Spotty Gets the Bird
    Little Archie
  12. Get the Picture
    Little Archie
  13. Class Picture
  14. Space Shot
    Little Archie
  15. Hits and Misses
    Li'l Jinx
  16. Love Thy Neighbor
    Little Archie
  17. The Law and Hermit Harper
    Little Archie
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