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Issue Details

Issue #169
Published August 1981
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Victor Gorelick ?

Cover Details

Characters The Little Archies [Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones]; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Pop Tate
Genre children
Script Dexter Taylor ?
Pencils Dexter Taylor (signed)
Inks Dexter Taylor ?
Letters Dexter Taylor ?

1 page Sabrina; Hostess advertisement "Growling Grizzlies"

Characters Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Hilda
Synopsis Sabrina and Aunt Hilda distract bears from campers with Hostess Fruit Pies.
Genre teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo ?
Notes Advertisement for Hostess Fruit Pies. Copyright © 1981 Continental Baking Company

6 page Little Archie story "Test Pest"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis Reggie cheats on a test by copying Archie's answers, but Miss Grundy was prepared for that and catches him anyway.
Genre children
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida [as Saburo Y.]

1 page Mort story "More or Less!"

Characters Mort; Li'l Jinx
Genre children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Little Archie's Fan Club letters page

Pencils ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes Letters submitted by Nancy Bryant; Amber Young; Shelley Graves Page is hand-lettered, not typeset; also includes drawings of the letter writers from photographs they submitted with their letters.

6 page Little Archie story "Date Bait"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Smithers (cameo)
Synopsis Little Jughead asks Betty on a date, but he really wants her to go on a quiz show with him to help him win big prizes.
Genre children
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Little Sabrina story "The Magic Treat"

Characters Little Sabrina Spellman; Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Miss Beazly; Mr. Weatherbee (cameo); Miss Grundy (cameo); Smithers (cameo)
Synopsis When Veronica won't invite Jughead to her party because he eats too much, Sabrina tries to help by casting a spell that makes Juggie completely lose his appetite. However, this causes several unforeseen problems and she has to undo the spell.
Genre children
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

2 page Little Archie's Mail Board letters page

Synopsis Art and letters submitted by Rhonda Lee Zandstra; Brian Meager; Heather McKinnon; Jenny Bernstein; Karalia Dorion; Amy Lewis; Vikki Mak; Mary Kay Albowicz; Shannon Gilliam; Mindy Berger
Pencils Dexter Taylor ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes Page is hand-lettered, not typeset.

4 page Little Archie story "The Chow Horse"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Little Veronica Lodge (dream sequence); Little Betty Cooper (dream sequence); Miss Grundy (dream sequence)
Synopsis Annoyed that Mary invited Jughead to dinner, Fred dreams that Juggie is a centaur with an enormous appetite.
Genre children
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida