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Issue Details

Issue #581
Published January 1988
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Victor Gorelick

Cover Details - "Little Archie"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Chuck Clayton; Little Dilton Doily; Ambrose Pipps
Genre humor; children; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Betty dancing on Veronica's toy piano is a reference to "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

6 page Little Archie story "Go With the Floe"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Sue Stringly; Snuffles
Synopsis After Little Archie protects Sue Stringly and her scrawny Christmas tree from the South Side Serpents, the two run out onto the ice after her dog Snuffles and get caught on an ice floe that takes them out into the middle of the river.
Genre humor; children; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page Little Sabrina filler "Tree Spree"

Characters Little Sabrina; Aunt Zelda
Synopsis Sabrina and Zelda pick out a Christmas tree.
Genre children; humor
Script Dexter Taylor
Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Dexter Taylor

1 page Little Archie letters page "Little Archie's Mail Board"

Pencils Dexter Taylor
Inks Dexter Taylor

11 page Little Archie story "The Christmas Comet (or Halley-Luiah!)"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Professor Pither
Synopsis Little Archie goes to Crackstone Manor to retrieve the camera he left there the last time Mad Doctor Doom captured him (in Archie Giant Series # 570). He finds that in the Doctor's absence, Professor Pither From Planet Pluto is using Crackstone Manor to create tiny tornadoes that can steal people's jewelry.
Genre humor; children; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Professor Pither was originally created by Bob Bolling as an adversary for Sabrina the Teenage Witch. (In at least one Sabrina story we learn that he continues to use Crackstone Manor after Archie has grown up and driven Mad Doctor Doom out of Riverdale.)

5 page Little Archie story "The Pikers"

Characters Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Mr. Weatherbee is ice-fishing for the legendary Perilous Pike of Logger's Pond, but the boys almost catch the Perilous Pike using a sandwich as bait.
Genre humor; children; adventure
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes The Perilous Pike, and Mr. Weatherbee's obsession with catching him, were introduced in Bolling's Archie and Me # 144.