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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Richard Rich; Cadbury

Synopsis: Richie runs to escape from an avalanche of currency.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Gloria Glad

First Line: I have a new dress, Richie!

Synopsis: Gloria shows Richie her new dress which is made out of paper, and Richie reluctantly shows her a suit he owns made of paper money.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Cadbury

First Line: Heavens! My room's a mess!

Synopsis: After vacuuming Mrs. Rich's dressing room, Cadbury empties the vacuum bag and finds a number of huge gems and jewels.

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Richie Rich and the Blackbeard Caper

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; masquerade party guests; Timmy Index; Timothy Index; Uriah Heap; Blackbeard the pirate; unnamed pirates

Synopsis: One of the scientists working for Mr. Rich has built a working but untested time machine. Intrigued, Richie seeks out the scientist and asks if he can help test it right then. Richie, the scientist and the scientist's son Timmy are sent back in time to meet Blackbeard the pirate, who promptly imprisons them and decides to hold Richie for ransom.

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Notes: This story is continued in "A Taste of Money" immediately following in this issue. The scientist's assistant, Uriah Heap, is an obvious reference to the Uriah Heep character in Charles Dickens's classic novel David Copperfield.

A Taste of Money

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Uriah Heap; Heap's henchmen; Blackbeard

Synopsis: Richie "returns" to the present, where he learns that Heap has tricked them all to get the ransom money. Richie and the others were merely drugged rather than transported through time. However, in an attempt to escape, Richie damages the time machine and the real Blackbeard is brought forward in time. Blackbeard agrees to help Richie rescue his friends.

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Notes: This story continues from "Richie Rich and the Blackbeard Caper", immediately preceding in this issue, and is continued in "Richie Rich and Blackbeard's Bash", which immediately follows. Uriah Heap is an obvious reference to the Uriah Heep character in Charles Dickens's classic novel David Copperfield.

Richie Rich and Blackbeard's Bash

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Blackbeard the pirate; Uriah Heap; Dr. Timothy Index; Heap's henchman; Timmy Index; Richard Rich

Synopsis: With Blackbeard's help, Richie rescues his friends and recovers the stolen ransom money, after which Blackbeard is sent back to his own time.

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Notes: This story continues from "A Taste of Money", immediately preceding in this issue. Uriah Heap is an obvious reference to the Uriah Heep character in Charles Dickens's classic novel David Copperfield.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mr. Polka; unnamed woman; Dotty; Jotty

First Line: You can talk about anything but dots on our little walk!

Synopsis: As Dot and her father set out for a walk, he tells her that he doesn't want to talk about anything related to dots during their jaunt. He relents, however, when they see such a preponderance of dotted things that it begs discussion.

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Dot Puzzle Solver

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Dot Polka [Little Dot]; letter carrier; children; Aunt Sally

Synopsis: After doing a dot-shaped puzzle, Dot searches the neighborhood for broken items that she can reassemble, but she always ends up turning them into dot shapes.

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Clumsy Cyril

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Cyril the centipede; Cyril's father; cave men

Synopsis: Cyril the centipede has trouble coordinating all one hundred of his legs while walking, but his father helps him use counting to do so and helps invent marching in the process.

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The Marriage of Minnie

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Minnie the Moth; Oscar the Fly

Synopsis: Minnie and Oscar get married.

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Notes: As mentioned in the story, this is a sequel to another text story detailing Minnie and Oscar's first date, entitled "Big Date". The earliest indexed instance of that first story is in Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #134, although since that issue was published well after the first indexed instance of the sequel story, there must be an earlier instance of "Big Date" that has not yet been indexed.

Clubhouse Builder

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Gerald; Billy; unnamed boy; golfers

Synopsis: Two boys scheme to let Gerald join their club so that Lotta will do all the work of building their clubhouse. With the clubhouse built, they kick Gerald out, so Lotta gets revenge.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Mrs. Plump

First Line: Lotta, I've prepared some thick pea soup for your lunch!

Synopsis: Lotta creates havoc when she blows on her hot soup to cool it off.

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Character(s): Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mr. Polka; unnamed woamn

First Line: If you can't call a dot-shaped thing by its real name, don't mention it!

Synopsis: Dot's father forbids her to call dot-shaped things by anything but their proper name, then regrets it later.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Regina Rich; Richard Rich; professor

First Line: Look at this man with a gold tooth, Mother!

Synopsis: Richie gives a dinosaur skeleton a gold tooth.

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Butler on the Run

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Cadbury; Lady Sybil Gaspipe; would-be thief; pedestrian

Synopsis: Cadbury unsuccessfully flees the attention of a former employer who talks incessantly.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]

First Line: Danger! Bridge out!

Synopsis: Lotta crosses a river in an unconventional way.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; pedestrian; salesman

First Line: Abner Crummy & Smith

Synopsis: Lotta rushes into a sporting goods store to avoid the rain. When no raincoats there fit her, she finds another way to stay dry in the rain.

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Little Dot and Her Uncle Tod

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Character(s): Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Uncle Tod; children; Mr. McShambles; Fly-By-Night; horse jockeys; horse race attendees; reporters; photographer

Synopsis: Dot's Uncle looks just like her, but can't get a job because of his size. When he tries out for a job as a horse racing jockey, they learn that the horse loves Dot but doesn't like Tod. Eventually Dot discovers that the horse likes her dotted dress, so she paints dots on Tod's jockey uniform and he wins the race.

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Now When I Was A Girl

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; Granny Plump; Spud; unnamed boys; motorist; homeowner

Synopsis: Granny Plump teaches Lotta to be ladylike.

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Shining Up

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Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Richie Rich's Dollar Sense

Synopsis: Suggestions for starting a shoe shining business.

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Centers of Attraction

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Feature(s): Little Lotta's Food Fun

Synopsis: Suggestions for creating attractive centerpieces for the dinner table.

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The Mostest

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; Aunt Marthy; chauffeur

Synopsis: Richie takes Gloria and her Aunt on a tour of the Rich estate, but Gloria gets upset when his descriptions of various parts of the estate sound to her like bragging.

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