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Issue: Little Archie #4
Publication Date: September 1957
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues (5 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Little Archie Giant ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/18/1957
Volume: 1
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from Library of Congress, Periodicals 1958.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
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Pages: 1
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Trick By Trial

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis: After watching a movie about a judge, the kids hold a trial with Little Archie as the judge and Ambrose as the defendant.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: After some prototypes in the previous issue, this story is the formal introduction of Ambrose, Little Archie's "picked-on pal" with the cap that covers his eyes.

The story also introduces the girls' catchphrase "Poor Ambrose!" which is said whenever the boys start to pick on him.
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Pop's Pet Peeve

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Evelyn Evernever; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis: Fred is talked into acting as the judge in Little Archie's neighborhood pet show.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This story introduces the buck-toothed girl with a bow in her hair, who would be named Evelyn Evernever in future stories.
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Sales Switch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Moose Mason; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis: After seeing a fast-talking salesman sell his father things he doesn't need, Little Archie tries to become a super salesman, opening up the "West Side big bargain store" with the boys. But the girls retaliate by becoming salespeople themselves and creating an urgent need for the boys to buy their hornet exterminating service.
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Pages: 7
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Toads and Frogs

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Letterer(s): typeset
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It's Friendship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica hate each other, but they're best friends.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics #[nn] published September 2009
as It's Friendship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Skip It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Bunny and the Kids
Character(s): Bunny; Tubes
Synopsis: Bunny skips rope even though she's sick.
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Cab Caper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Ambrose Pipps
Synopsis: Little Archie starts his own taxi service, taking money to drive people around in his soapbox derby. Betty and Veronica open a competing taxi service and fight with Little Archie for passengers. Jughead creates his own taxi, a wagon pulled by a dog. And Ambrose becomes a traffic cop.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The first mention of "Carson's Creek," one of many Riverdale geographical locations created by Bolling. It would become frequently mentioned in Little Archie stories and eventually in "big" Archie stories.
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The Giraffe

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Mad About the Boy!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge
Synopsis: Little Archie, Betty and Veronica spend all their playtime fighting with each other.
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Pages: 6
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Little Archie Puzzle Page

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Reggie's Soda Pop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Mr. Mantle
Synopsis: Reggie's dad keeps boring the boys with stories of his past as a boxer and telling them that "boxing pays off." The boys figure out how to exploit make these stories pay off for them.
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Hoopin' and Hollerin'!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: The kids roll hoops.
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Pages: 6
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Bears

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For Petter Or Worse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Scotty and Dotty
Character(s): Scotty; Dotty; Daddy
Synopsis: Scotty and Dotty argue over who will get to pet the new dog.
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Kill Or Cure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis: The girls play nurse and bandage the boys.
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Pages: 6
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Shakes Pair

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Scout
Character(s): Little Scout
Synopsis: Scout wants to ride on a pogo stick.
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Pages: 1
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It's a Gem Dandy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: Ronnie's dad gives her a diamond ring. Jughead figures out how to make it look like Betty has one too.
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Pages: 7
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Navy Nuts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Moose Mason; Spotty
Synopsis: The boys play "navy" on a raft in the middle of Carson's Creek. The girls attack their craft with a barrage of apples.
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Pages: 9

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