Price: 0.50 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1981-06-09
Editing: Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
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That Wilkin Boy / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:drama; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In a brand new adventure!
  • Keywords:soap opera
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Indexer Notes

Starting with this issue, writer-artist Dick Malmgren took over "That Wilkin Boy" and revamped it as a soap opera/adventure title. In this form it lasted four issues before being cancelled.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.

All-American Celebration
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Archie; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Chapter I: It Takes a Thief
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That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages

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After Bingo is rushed to the hospital, Samantha meets and falls for his doctor, and signs up as a volunteer.

It Makes Cents
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Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page

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Joe Edwards (signed as Edwards)
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Joe Edwards (signed as Edwards)
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Joe Edwards (signed as Edwards)
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Joe Edwards (signed as Edwards)
  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Er… What are you looking for Charley?
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You Don’t Mean It?
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Bingo / activity / 1 page

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Joe Edwards ? (logo illustration)
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  • Genre:teen
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Match words to unlikely definitions

Chapter II: What Are Friends For?
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That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 5 pages

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A jealous nurse, Jessica Jason, tries to frame Samantha for robbery. When that doesn't work, Jessica makes Samantha think Bingo is unfaithful.

Chapter III: What's in a Name?
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That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 5 pages

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Samantha is followed home from the hospital by two mysterious, threatening-looking men.

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Dear Bingo and Samantha / letters page / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In school everyone makes fun of me

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Advice column; page is hand-lettered, not typeset.

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Uncle Herman Pin Up / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Golly Uncle Herman –
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Uncle Herman; Bingo Wilkin
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Uncle Herman fishes for dinner.

Indexer Notes

This is a slightly cropped redrawing of the cover of That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 Series) #29

Chapter IV: Silence Is Golden
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That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 5 pages

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After finding out that the men are undercover cops, Samantha tries to help them catch a crook at the hospital.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["In a brand new adventure!"]
    That Wilkin Boy
  2. All-American Celebration
    Archie; Hostess Fruit Pies
  3. Chapter I: It Takes a Thief
    That Wilkin Boy
  4. It Makes Cents
    Li'l Jinx
  5. You Don’t Mean It?
    Bingo
  6. Chapter II: What Are Friends For?
    That Wilkin Boy
  7. Chapter III: What's in a Name?
    That Wilkin Boy
  8. ["In school everyone makes fun of me"]
    Dear Bingo and Samantha
  9. ["Golly Uncle Herman –"]
    Uncle Herman Pin Up
  10. Chapter IV: Silence Is Golden
    That Wilkin Boy
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