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Issue: Little Archie Giant Comics #12
Publication Date: September 1959
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Issues: #12 of 14 Issues (18 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: 07/29/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 23 (18 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from mikesamazingworld.com
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Ronnie's Bakery

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
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Pages: 1
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The Famous Flyer

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Ambrose Pipps; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Evelyn Evernever; Mrs. Cooper; Chick Cooper
Synopsis: Little Archie becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming famous, and takes to heart his father's advice that to become famous he needs to be a "good mixer." After getting advice from Chick Cooper on how to build model planes, Little Archie gets one of his "fran-tastical ideas": he'll become famous by building and flying a full-sized airplane based on Chick's instructions. Meanwhile, the girls try to make the world's biggest mud pie.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: In this issue, Spotty is colored grey instead of his usual color.
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The Handsome Ransom

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper
Synopsis: The kids find a note from Ambrose saying that he's being held for ransom by the South Side Serpents. After the girls accuse them of being too "sissy" to go after him, the boys set out to rescue Ambrose and wind up being captured by the Serpents themselves.
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Pages: 9
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One for the Books

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis: Little Archie stands on a stack of books to reach the cookies his mother made.
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It's An Old Saying

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty; Doctor Throb
Synopsis: Trying to get Little Archie to go to the dentist, Fred uses a lot of wise old sayings. Unfortunately, it's the dentist who uses the old sayings on him when it turns out Fred's teeth need more work than Little Archie's.
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The Musk Ox

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
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Brain Boobs

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Svenson; Waldo Weatherbee
Synopsis: The boys try to steal the girls' ice cream and cake, first by capturing Ambrose, then by fooling Evelyn into trading them the goodies for a "brain box" that they claim can give the right answer to any question.
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge
First Line: Will you put this sign up for my doggy
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Pages: 0.25
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TV Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Caramel
Character(s): Little Betty Cooper; Caramel; Mrs. Cooper; Mrs. Crump
Synopsis: A guest at the Cooper house is amused to see Caramel staring intently at the TV set.
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Miss Helpful!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Merry Holliday
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Balloon Round-Up!

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Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews
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Pages: 2
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The Beauty and the Boat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Evelyn Evernever; Sheldon Broadbeam
Synopsis: Little Archie and Jughead take Evelyn up on her suggestion to start a sightseeing boat tour on Carson's Creek, but reject her offer to be the tour's "boo-ful" main attraction.
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Pages: 10
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The Glamour Gal of the West Side

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Evelyn Evernever; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis: All the kids bring in scrapbooks of something near and dear to them, and Evelyn's is filled with pictures of herself.
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The Wide Open Spaces

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Brando; Peggy
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News Story

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Shrimpy; Peggy
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Big Guns For Washington

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: historical, informational, non-fiction
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The Big Move

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Pop Tate; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis: All the kids are nice to Ambrose when they hear that he and his family are moving.
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Pages: 4
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Lesson Learned

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Little Archie prepares to give Ronnie a lesson.
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Picnic Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis: For once Jughead doesn't eat before everyone else does on a picnic.
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Little Veronica Fun Page

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Cut-out dresses for Ronnie.
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The Rules

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
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Thinner

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Pipsqueak; Pipsqueak's dad
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A Fishy Marriage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Ambrose Pipps; Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Pipps; Mrs. Pipps; Putnam Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; Evelyn Evernever; Bubbles McBounce
Synopsis: The boys glumly realize that someday they'll grow up and get married to girls, like most guys do. Ambrose is determined to devote his life to fishing instead of getting married, but the girls tell him they've already picked out his future wife: Bubbles McBounce, an obese girl who just moved to the West Side. While Ambrose's mother tells him that someday he'll want to get married when he finds a girl who understand him, the boys start fighting over the right to marry Bubbles, who is despondent when she realizes that they only want her because her father owns McBounce's ice cream parlor.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: First appearance of Bubbles McBounce.

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