Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	October 1977
Cover Price	0.75 USD
Pages	132
Editing	?
Notes	PDC51694-9. Copyrights are 1969, 1972, 1973, so stories may be reprints from those years.

Cover Details - "Gold-tar"

Characters	Richie Rich
Genre	humor
Notes	PDC51694-9. Copyrights are 1969, 1972, 1973, so stories may be reprints from those years.

1 page Boy Scouts of America; Casper The Friendly Ghost public service announcement "Casper The Friendly Cub Scout Invites You To Be A Cub Scout"

Characters	Casper
Letters	?; typeset
Notes	Inside front cover.

1 page Richie Rich foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Richie Rich Be$t Of The Year$"

Characters	Richie Rich; Dr. Creemy; Jack Potts; Peewee
Synopsis	Table of contents for the issue.
Notes	Art appears to be excerpts from stories in this issue.

1 page Richie Rich story "See The Trillions of Richie Rich"

Characters	Richie Rich; Mr. Gloot
Synopsis	Mr. Gloot's Fort Knox tour business is suffering because no one is interested in billions, so Richie lets him give tours of his dad's trillions.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "The Endless Ice Cream"

Characters	Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Dr. Creemy; Dot Polka (cameo); Freckles (cameo); Nurse Jenny; Cadbury
Synopsis	Due to an accident with Richie at the ice cream factory, Dr. Creemy invents endless ice cream. Mr. Rich decides to give it away, but kids soon begin developing tummy aches from eating too much, so Mr. Rich orders it all destroyed.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Amusement Park Surprise"

Characters	Richie Rich; Gloria
Synopsis	Richie shows off a new ride at his Harveyville Amusement Park.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Tips"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles
Synopsis	Richie accompanies Freckles on his dentist appointment and explains the meaning of tips.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "Cousin Jack Potts Returns!"

Characters	Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Jack Potts; Mr. Snerd; crook
Synopsis	Jack fails at several jobs in Rich-owned businesses but foils a bank robber to collect a reward.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Flowers"

Characters	Richie Rich; Gloria
Synopsis	Richie laments that he always ends up buying flowers for Gloria, until he finds that things could be worse if she were allergic to them.
Genre	humor

2 page Richie Rich comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Have Yourself A Richie Rich Holiday...All Summer Long"

Characters	Richie Rich; Gloria; Reggie
Synopsis	House ad for 21 different Richie Rich titled comics.

5 page Richie Rich story "Make Me Laugh!"

Characters	Richie Rich; Cadbury; Uncle Herbert
Synopsis	Richie's uncle never laughs despite all sorts of inducements at his home, but finally does when Cadbury slips on a banana peel.
Genre	humor

4 page Nurse Jenny story "The Horse's Aide"

Characters	Nurse Jenny; Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Mr. Fetlock; Mr. Carruthers; Asparagus
Synopsis	Asparagus, a racehorse of Mrs. Rich's, becomes so scared of Nurse Jenny that he wins a race trying to get away.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "Richie's Stamp Collection"

Characters	Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Freckles; King of Swobodia; members of International Stamp Collectors Association
Synopsis	Richie tires of his postage stamp collection because he has them all, but Freckles shows him how to collect handstamps.
Genre	humor
Reprinted	from Richie Rich Diamonds (Harvey, 1972 Series) #4

1 page Richie Rich comics promo (ad from the publisher) "New! Get It Now!"

Characters	Richie Rich
Synopsis	House ad for Richie Rich Digest Stories Magazine.

5 page Richie Rich story "Operation Ice-Bucket"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles; Peewee; Reggie; Cadbury; Charlie; Lester; Chef Pierre; Nurse Jenny; Richard Rich
Synopsis	Richie and his friends conduct a secret mission to bring home a surprise for Reggie's birthday, even though Reggie is a stowaway on the trip.
Genre	humor
Reprinted	from Richie Rich Diamonds (Harvey, 1972 Series) #4

5 page Irona story "A Guarded Moment"

Characters	Irona; Richard Rich; Regina Rich (cameo); Cadbury
Synopsis	Irona strictly interprets her instructions not to let anyone in or out of the house, which interferes with Cadbury's attempts to take a walk.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Telephones"

Characters	Regina Rich; a telephone installer
Synopsis	It has taken so long for telephones to be installed in every room of the Rich mansion that a new model has come out since the task was begun...so the installer must start over.
Genre	humor

5 page Little Lotta story "Gramps Is A Champ!"

Characters	Little Lotta; Lotta's grandfather
Synopsis	Lotta's grandfather loses his glasses and they take a trip to his optometrist. But because he can't see, he mistakenly leads them to Mexico, where Lotta wins a bullfight.
Genre	humor

2 page Richie Rich story "Palm Tree"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles; Richard Rich
Synopsis	The boys are washed off Richie's yacht by a wave and saved by a palm tree that signals the search party.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "The Healing Gem"

Characters	Richie Rich; Nurse Jenny; a crook; Uncle Fortune (on phone)
Synopsis	Richie's uncle sends a gem that Nurse Jenny believes solves every problem that occurs.
Genre	humor
Reprinted	from Richie Rich Diamonds (Harvey, 1972 Series) #4

5 page Richie Rich story "The Punk Robot"

Characters	Richie Rich; Richard Rich; Richie robot; Gloria; town bully
Synopsis	Richie's new guard robot suffers a thinking failure after hitting a tree, so Richie has to rescue it instead.
Genre	humor

1 page Little Dot story "Uncle Rush"

Characters	Dot Polka; Uncle Rush
Synopsis	Dot's uncle rushes around so fast he changes his mind in midair while making a dive into a pool.
Genre	humor

5 page Little Dot story "Meets Uncle Ecol"

Characters	Dot Polka; Uncle Ecol; aliens
Synopsis	Dot's uncle tries to study some aliens who have landed but instead has to scare them off earth after learning they plan to conquer the planet.
Genre	humor
Reprinted	from Richie Rich Diamonds (Harvey, 1972 Series) #4

1 page Little Lotta story "Tying The Ribbon"

Characters	Little Lotta; moving men
Synopsis	Lotta ties up a crate using a length of pipe as a ribbon.
Genre	humor

10 page Richie Rich story "The School Transfer"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles; Mrs. Rich; Mrs. Vandersnoot; Snerdly Vandersnoot; Cadbury (cameo); Bascomb; Snobside School registrar; Gordon; various teachers; Mr. Heathcliff
Synopsis	Richie's mother enrolls him in a private school, but it turns out not to actually teach anything but snobbery, so he is allowed to go back to public school.
Genre	humor
Notes	Presented in two parts: Part 1 is 5 pages and has no other title, Part 2 is 5 pages and is titled "The Snobside School."

1 page Richie Rich story "Snow Statue"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles; Peewee (cameo)
Synopsis	Richie builds a snow Statue of Liberty.
Genre	humor
Reprinted	from Richie Rich Diamonds (Harvey, 1972 Series) #4

5 page Richie Rich story "The Raffle!"

Characters	Richie Rich; Freckles; Regina Rich; Richard Rich; Little Audrey (on tv); Casper (on tv)
Synopsis	Freckles and Richie buy raffle tickets for a tv and of course Richie wins. But he (and both of his parents) have the idea to swap tickets between the boys, so Freckles ends up with 3 tvs.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Sledding"

Characters	Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Irona; Bucksworth
Synopsis	Irona takes cousin Bucksworth sledding, with her legs as runners.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Chandelier"

Characters	Richie Rich; Regina Rich
Synopsis	Richie designs a new chandelier using some of his mother's gems.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "The Beastie Ray"

Characters	Professor Mindblow; Ted; Richie Rich; Reggie; Cadbury; Nurse Jenny; Richard Rich
Synopsis	The professor invents a device that causes people to behave like animals and Reggie steals it and uses it for pranks, until it accidentally hits him.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "The Dome"

Characters	Richie Rich; Gloria
Synopsis	Gloria mistakes a giant gem for a geodesic dome that Richie is building.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "Dollar's School Daze"

Characters	Richie Rich; Dollar; Regina Rich; Mrs. Snobry; Fifi; Mrs. Van Snoot; Cadbury (cameo); Richard Rich
Synopsis	Dollar is sent to a training school but flunks out in his first day.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich comics promo (ad from the publisher) "It'$ A Bull$-Eye!"

Synopsis

House ad for Richie Rich Digest Winners.

1 page Little Dot story "Branes Laboratory"

Characters	Dot Polka; uncle Branes; robot
Synopsis	Uncle Branes invents a robot that blows enormous bubbles...with enormously messy results.
Genre	humor

10 page Richie Rich story "Walla The Magician"

Characters	Richie Rich; Gloria; talent agent; Walla; ogre; Bastante; Porido; Artie; Cadbury; Richard Rich; Regina Rich; Hiram Hokum
Synopsis	Richie hires a magician for a party but Walla shows up first and plays tricks to scare the kids.
Genre	humor; adventure
Notes	Presented in two parts: Part 1 is 5 pages and has no other title, Part 2 is 5 pages and is titled "The Surprise Party." There are two 1-page stories between the two parts of this story.

1 page Jackie Jokers story "Cleaning"

Characters	Jackie Jokers; Sam Booker
Synopsis	Jackie gets a new gig and takes his magician's outfit to the cleaners...complete with rabbit in the hat and other stuff.
Genre	humor
Notes	Appears between parts 1 and 2 of Walla The Magician story.

1 page Richie Rich story "Exercise Break"

Characters	Richie Rich; Cadbury; crook
Synopsis	Cadbury takes a exercise break and knocks out a crook while working out.
Genre	humor
Notes	Appears between parts 1 and 2 of Walla The Magician story.

1 page Little Dot story "New Watch"

Characters	Dot Polka; Little Lotta
Synopsis	Dot gets a new watch that tells everything but time.
Genre	humor

2 page Richie Rich comics promo (ad from the publisher) "4 New Sensational Richie Rich Magazines Are Coming Your Way!!"

Characters

Richie Rich

1 page Richie Rich story "Gift Suggestions"

Characters	Richie Rich; store clerk
Synopsis	Richie asks for gift suggestions for his father, but finds he already has everything that is suggested.
Genre	humor

5 page Richie Rich story "The Remarkable Target"

Characters	Richie Rich; Reggie
Synopsis	Reggie tries to hit Richie with his new pumpkin gun, but Richie keeps outsmarting him with dummies.
Genre	humor

1 page Little Lotta story "Crunchy Carrots"

Characters	Little Lotta
Synopsis	Lotta crunches her carrots so loudly that she annoys the whole town.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Toy Horse"

Characters	Richie Rich; mechanic
Synopsis	Richie's new robot horse throws him and breaks a leg.
Genre	humor

5 page Little Lotta story "A Ghost, What Else?"

Characters	Little Lotta; two crooks
Synopsis	Lotta tries to get a cat to come out of an abandoned house and makes such a ruckus she scares two crooks right into the hands of the police.
Genre	humor

1 page Richie Rich story "Emergency 'Plan X'"

Characters	Richie Rich; Richard Rich; pilot
Synopsis	The Rich's turn on certain lights in their mansion on foggy nights to guide planes to the airport.
Genre	humor

1 page Harvey Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "It's Baseball Time"

Characters	Richie Rich
Synopsis	House ad for various sports-themed digest-sized comics.

1 page American Dental Association; Casper The Friendly Ghost public service announcement "Casper Helps The Friendly Dentists"

Characters	Casper; Richie Rich; Wendy The Witch
Synopsis	Message to brush and floss and visit your dentist every 6 months.
Notes	Inside back cover.

1 page Richie Rich comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Grab Them Before They're Gone!"

Synopsis	House ad for digest-sized comics.
Notes	Includes cover of this comic. Back cover.