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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published Spring 1963
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Remember, this is National Be Kind To Your Neighbor Week!"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
Genre humor
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob Bolling
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his.

10 page Little Archie story "A Reel Adventure"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Officer O'Beez; Shakey; Fingers; Mr. Cooper
Synopsis Little Archie gets a movie camera and unwittingly films two wanted criminals outside a store they're planning to rob. To ensure that they won't be identified after the robbery, the crooks try to get the camera away from Little Archie, first by theft, then by bribery, and finally by force.
Genre humor; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes The end of the story shows Little Archie taking up stamp collecting, one of Bolling's own hobbies. Mr. Cooper is named "Henry" in this story.

1 page text article "Dion - Young Singer In Search of a Song"

Genre fact
Letters Typeset

8 page Little Archie story "Made For Trouble"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Harry McTwinge; Trouble Dragon
Synopsis When Little Archie is annoyed at all the things that have been going wrong for him, a Demon appears to make him an offer: if he fights and defeats his entire lifetime of troubles, in the form of a dragon, he'll never have any trouble again.
Genre humor; fantasy
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob Bolling
Colors Bob Bolling
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his.

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Time Is Money!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

8 page Polly story "Daddy's Diet"

Characters Polly Cooper; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Danny; Little Archie Andrews
Synopsis Mr. Cooper promises to buy Polly the five-dollar blouse she wants if she helps him to stay on his diet. So Polly enlists her boyfriend Danny to help her come up with some ingenious ways to keep her father away from food.
Genre humor
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes One of the earliest examples of a technique Bolling would use a lot in later stories: including a caption at the very end that fills us in on what happened after the story ended.

1 page Little Archie story "Muskrat Ramble"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis Evelyn shows Archie her pet muskrat, but Little Archie insists that an animal with such a flat, wide tail must be a beaver.
Genre humor
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob Bolling
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes Bob Bolling's signature is omitted here, but the art and lettering are identifiable as his. Last appearance of Evelyn Evernever in the original Little Archie comics (she would later appear in some "big" Archie stories).

1 page text article "Jimmy Clanton"

Genre fact
Letters Typeset

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Perfectionist!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

3 page Little Archie story "The Uninvited Guests"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; un-named auctioneer; un-named Swiss man; un-named goat
Synopsis Fred buys a Swiss music box at an auction, and discovers that it has a tiny Swiss goatherd and goat inside.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

6 page Little Archie story "Candid Camera"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Bagly
Synopsis Reggie tries to get Little Archie into trouble, but everything he tries seems to wind up making Little Archie more popular with the teachers.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

8 page Little Archie story "Chip Off the Ol' Block!"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; George Washington; un-named historical characters
Synopsis When Little Archie refuses to eat his fish, Fred tells him the story of an Andrews ancestor whose love of fish helped to save the American troops at Valley Forge.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

6 page Little Archie story "The Baby Quitter"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Susan Johnson; Jumbo Jones; Spotty
Synopsis Little Archie's babysitter, Susan, is trapped in a relationship with a big, conceited boy named "Jumbo" Jones, who won't let any other man near her. Little Archie comes up with a way to scare Jumbo away from Susan.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

2 page Little Archie story "The Image"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis Miss Grundy sees Little Archie's face everywhere.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Archie story "Hearty Turnabout"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; un-named mailman
Synopsis Little Archie spends the whole day playing mean tricks on Ronnie.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor