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Issue Details

Issue #148
Published November 1979
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "What do you mean Reggie's act got mixed reviews, Little Archie?"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman

6 page Little Archie story "A Guide In the Woods"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Synopsis Little Archie and Reggie think Jughead has struck gold.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "You Don't Say!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

10 page Little Archie story "What Are Friends For?"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Granny Sage
Synopsis Betty tries to be Little Archie's friend, but he's not interested in being friends with a girl. What he's interested in is fishing, but when he takes his father's rod and reel without permission, he loses it in the middle of Weedum Pond. The only person who can tell him how to find the rod and reel is Granny Sage, the mysterious old woman who lives in the Hockomock Swamps, but he finds that he needs Betty's help to remember Granny's instructions.
Genre children; humor; fantasy
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes As Bolling explains in a footnote, Granny Sage first appeared in "Picnic" (Little Archie # 31). Here she helps Little Archie in exchange for what he did in that story.

5 page Little Sabrina story "The Magic Mirror"

Characters Little Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Magic Mirror; Salem
Synopsis A magic mirror explains why he doesn't tell women the truth when they ask who's the fairest of them all.
Genre children; humor; fantasy
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida