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Issue Details

Issue #144
Published July 1979
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Egad! Did a truck run over this newspaper, Little Archie?"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman

6 page Little Archie featuring Little Jughead story "From Bad To Worse"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers
Synopsis Mr. Lodge throws Little Archie out and tells Veronica to invite over a nice normal boy like Jughead.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Li'l Jinx's Pal Greg filler "Fighting Tactics"

Characters Greg
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Little Archie story "Cartoons From Little Archie"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
Synopsis One-panel gags with the Little Archie gang.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

10 page Little Archie story "The Old Shell Game"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Dilton Doily; Little Chuck Clayton; Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge
Synopsis The kids are visiting Ronnie's beach cottage, where her parents are fighting over proposed renovations to the house. To get away from the Lodges' fighting, the children go down to the beach to collect shells. There they find the biggest shell of all, and an example of what can happen when fighting gets out of hand: a shell from World War II.
Genre children; humor; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes First appearance of Chuck in the Little Archie comics.

5 page Little Sabrina story "The Magic Music"

Characters Little Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda
Synopsis Zelda's violin playing is so bad that no one can stand it, not even ghosts in a haunted house.
Genre children; humor; fantasy
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida