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The Mystery of the Secret Panel

Little Archie / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:children
Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Smithers; Hiram Lodge [Mr. Lodge]; a vampire
Reprints (1)

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Indexer Notes

The "Fawcett" logo appears on the cover.

Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:children
Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Fangs Fogarty; Professor Flutesnoot; Waldo Weatherbee [Mr. Weatherbee]; Geraldine Grundy [Miss Grundy]; Unnamed Riverdale kids
Synopsis:
To get it out of their system, Mr. Weatherbee allows the kids to have a snowball fight with the boys against the girls and when he joins the boys team they get a surprise when the girls unveil their secret weapon.
Reprints (6)

Indexer Notes

Art is identified as Dexter Taylor's by his distinctive style.

Crossword Puzzlement

Archie; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Fat Charley / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse; Greg; Unnamed teacher
Synopsis:
Charley explains why he is late.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Credits based on artist's distinctive style. Top half page gag shared with Li'l Jinx, "In And Out" gag.

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis:
Li'l Jinx asks her daddy if you fill in or fill out an application.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Credits based on artist's distinctive style. Bottom half page gag shared with Fat Charley, "Late Shift" gag.

Mystery of the Secret Panel

Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Chester; Hiram Lodge [Hirum Lodge]; Hermione Lodge; Smithers; a vampire; unnamed police officer; unnamed crook; unnamed old lady
Synopsis:
Little Archie and Little Jughead let Mr. Lodge's pet bird out and go searching for him in an old haunted house that turns out to be a front for a burglary operation.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Mr. Lodge's first name, Hiram, is spelled "Hirum" in this story; it is corrected when reprinted in The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 2008 series) #2. Dexter Taylor credits from that publication.

[no title indexed]

Little Archie's Mail Board / letters page / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Dexter Taylor (illustrations)
Inks:
Dexter Taylor (illustrations)
Colors:
? (illustrations)
Letters:

Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge (In title header only); Bengry; Princess
Synopsis:
Letters page section with letters from Julie Desalvo, Yoshiko Imai, Cindi Roxenberg, Marcie Magee, Gleyenna Trabajo, Lorraine Goussey, Sandra Pearson, and Maureen Gruben.

Fan art from Cindi Roxenberg, Gleyenna Trabajo, and Julie Desalvo.

games; gags; riddles and pen pal information.

Indexer Notes

Drawings contributed by Cindi Roxenberg; Gleyenna Trabajo & Julie Desalvo, a maze contributed by Gleyenna Trabajo, riddle by by Marcie Magee, gag bag by Sandra Pearson and letters from Julie Desalvo; Yoshiko Imai; Cindi Roxenberg; Marcie Magee; Gleyenna Trabajo; Lorraine Goussey; Sandra Pearson & Maureen Gruben along with a listing of pen pal addresses and accompanying art by Dexter Taylor.
Page is hand-lettered, not typeset.

The School Fool

Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Dilton Doiley [Little Dilton Doily]; Unnamed Riverdale kid; Professor Flutesnoot
Synopsis:
Flutesnoot gets more than he bargained for when he asks Little Archie and Little Jughead to bring insects to school.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

No credits given for two page gag. Art is identified as Dexter Taylor's by his distinctive style.

Little Sabrina / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:children; fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Little Sabrina Spellman; Little Salem; Aunt Hilda Spellman; Aunt Zelda Spellman; Unnamed father; Unnamed daughter; Unnamed little girl; Unnamed dog; Unnamed ski instructor; Unnamed skiing people; Unnamed trophy holder
Synopsis:
Little Sabrina and her witch aunts go to the ski slopes in a ski copter but things go wrong when they realize it has no brakes.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

No credits given for story. Art is identified as Dexter Taylor's by his distinctive style.

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