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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published Spring 1966
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - Read "The Terrible Tornado Machine"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Genre humor; adventure; fantasy
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Bob Bolling
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes Though Betty and Veronica appear on the cover, they don't appear in the actual story.

11 page Little Archie story "The Terrible Tornado Machine"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Detective Parker; Millionaire Dibbledock; un-named clerk
Synopsis Mad Doctor Doom creates a machine that can control tornadoes, and uses it to destroy Riverdale's newly-completed Dibbledock Towers. He begins to blackmail wealthy businessmen, and uses the remote-controlled tornadoes to collect the ransom money. The police don't believe Little Archie's insistence that the "harmless nut" Mad Doctor Doom is behind this reign of terror. So it's once again up to that "meddlesome brat" to foil Doom's plans himself, using two things: the gold bars Doom has collected as ransom, and Chester's huge supply of "Icky Slicky" hair oil.
Genre humor; adventure; fantasy
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes This was the last Little Archie story for many years by the title's creator, Bob Bolling. He was transferred to the "big" Archie titles after this, with Dexter Taylor handling the Little Archie title almost exclusively. Bolling drew (but didn't write) one Little Archie story in the early '70s, and finally returned to the title on a semi-regular basis starting in Little Archie # 142. This was also the last appearance of Mad Doctor Doom in Little Archie for many years. He briefly became a recurring villain in Archie superhero stories. He and Chester reappeared in a Dexter Taylor story in Little Archie # 136, and Bolling returned to the characters in the mid-'80s.

8 page Little Archie story "George To the Rescue"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis Little Archie brings a parakeet to school.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

6 page Little Archie story "Science on the March"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot
Synopsis Little Archie and Jughead build an ant farm as their science project, but the "ants" are actually termites.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Archie story "The Right One"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis The kids discuss their favorite rings.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

9 page Little Archie story "Challenge of the Storm"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Pierre; Brownie
Synopsis Little Archie and his father return to Moosehorn Lumber Camp, where Pierre is injured while trying to protect his dog Brownie from a wolverine.
Genre adventure
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor
Notes The camp, and the character of Pierre, first appeared in Bob Bolling's story "Cougar" (Little Archie # 15). Pierre mentions that Little Archie saved his life in that story.

5 page Li'l Jinx story "Cornered"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg
Synopsis Li'l Jinx's daddy makes her stand in the corner and think about what she did, but instead she lets her imagination run wild.
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

2 page Little Archie story "Little Archie Theatre"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Little Archie and Jughead put on a puppet show consisting mostly of jokes about Reggie.
Genre humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Don't Call Me..."

Characters Li'l Jinx; Greg; Sylvester
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

11 page Little Archie story "Monster of the Quarter Moon"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; un-named woman
Synopsis Mr. Lodge takes Ronnie and Little Archie to the seaside, where he is planning to build a resort at the site of an old abandoned lighthouse. A mysterious woman appears to warn the children of a giant sea monster who will appear there in search of food.
Genre adventure
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Letters Dexter Taylor