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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published Winter 1958
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Heavy Rain Due Today"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Genre humor; children
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)

10 page Little Archie story "Bubble Gum Blues"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis The West Side Warriors try to get away from the "stupid girls" by turning their clubhouse into a boat. Meanwhile, the girls have taken up fortune telling and warn the boys that if they're not nice, the "good fairy" won't come to help them. The fortune comes true, but with a different spelling than the boys expected.
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling

1 page Little Archie story "Sum Friend"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason; Waldo Weatherbee
Synopsis Moose is forbidden to pitch for the school team because of his bad grades in math.
Genre children; humor
Script Samm Schwartz
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

9 page Little Archie story "Map Saps"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis Little Archie and Reggie hire Ambrose to create a map of the neighborhood that they can use to plot strategy against the South Side Serpents. After Ambrose turns in a beautifully-made map, they try to find a flaw in it so they can get out of paying him.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes Two pages of this story are devoted to Ambrose's map, which includes many of the specific places that Bolling created for his version of Riverdale, including "Thrill Hill," "Carson's Creek," the swamp (later named the Hockomock Swamp) and the Serpents' hideout "Cobra Cave."

5 page Little Archie story "Taboo It May Concern"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper
Synopsis Little Archie asks Betty to a movie on Friday the 13th, and Betty goes reluctantly, worried about bad luck.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

6 page Little Archie story "The Reign Is Over"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis Little Archie and his friends play a game based on "The Prince and the Pauper," and Little Archie enjoys being the Prince.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz

6 page Little Archie story "Plane Advice"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis After Fred helps Little Archie with his model plane, his boss gets the mistaken idea that Fred can fly actual planes.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Bunny and the Kids story "Secret Talk!"

Characters Bunny
Synopsis Bunny gloats about knowing a secret.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz

1 page text story "Reptiles of Yesterday"

Genre fact; nature

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Hit and Miss!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Greg
Synopsis Greg throws snowballs at Li'l Jinx.
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

4 page Little Archie story "For Friendship's Ache"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis Little Archie tries to talk Moose out of beating up Jughead.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

Half page Little Reggie story "Art Antics"

Characters Little Reggie Mantle; Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis Reggie is chosen by Miss Grundy to help decorate the gym.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

Half page Little Ambrose story "Here comes Secretary Ambrose!"

Characters Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis Ambrose is club Secretary even though he can't write.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Betty story "Sweet Talk"

Characters Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis Betty won't give Jughead a piece of candy unless he says nice things about her.
Genre children; humor
Script Samm Schwartz
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Nature's Notebook text article "The Great Apes"

Genre fact; nature
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Letters Typeset

6 page Little Archie story "Film Fun"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Director Little Archie shoots a Western film with Ronnie as the leading lady.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page text story "The World's Largest Mammal"

Synopsis An introduction to various whales.
Genre fact; nature

5 page Little Archie story "Keep 'Em Flying"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis Little Archie makes a kite tail out of his father's ties.
Genre children; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Little Jughead story "Ride Or Wrong"

Characters Little Jughead Jones; Little Archie Andrews
Synopsis Jughead opens a dog-walking service, but charges half price on big dogs.
Genre children; humor
Script Samm Schwartz
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Little Ambrose story "Business Forecast"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis Ambrose opens a newsstand where he sells yesterday's papers.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Nature's Notebook text article "American Mammals"

Genre fact; nature
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Letters Typeset

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Thin Ice?"

Characters Li'l Jinx
Synopsis Li'l Jinx goes skating.
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

4 page Little Archie story "Friend Or Foe"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis After his father encourages him to try harder to make friends, Little Archie goes out and befriends a squirrel, who promptly drives his father crazy.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling

1 page Little Veronica story "Berry Good Friends"

Characters Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis Ronnie does the old Vaudeville "that's good/that's bad" phone routine, complete with the traditional punchline ("I helped her sort the strawberries").
Genre children; humor
Script Samm Schwartz
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Little Ambrose story "Sports Sharpy"

Characters Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis Ambrose uses his dog George to help him score a touchdown against the South Side Serpents.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

8 page Little Archie story "Business Bungle"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis Inspired by all the advice-givers in TV and newspapers, Little Archie starts "Little Archie's Good Advice Business," offering advice to anyone who can pay him in jellybeans. All the kids are disgusted by his greed and stop liking him, except Evelyn, who becomes his secretary, and Ambrose, who Little Archie tells to "go jump in the lake." And it's that bit of advice that leads to Ambrose becoming the most popular kid on the West Side. An act of generosity by Ambrose then makes Little Archie realize that friends are more important than jellybeans any day.
Genre humor; children
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes The first story to show a closer friendship between Little Archie and Ambrose.