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Issue: Archie Giant Series Magazine #581
Publication Date: January 1988
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Issues: #581 of 332 Issues (390 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Giant SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Gorelick
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfect bound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Bolling
Penciller(s): Bob Bolling
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): 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 Doiley; Ambrose Pipps
First Line: Tis the season to be jolly…
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Betty dancing on Veronica's toy piano is a reference to "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
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Go With the Floe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Bolling
Penciller(s): Bob Bolling
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Double Digest Magazine #148 [Direct Edition] published February 2004
as Go With the Floe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Comics Digest #2 published January 2012
as Go With the Floe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: When reprinted in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2012 series) #2, the inks are credited to Chic Stone.
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Tree Spree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dexter Taylor
Penciller(s): Dexter Taylor
Inker(s): Dexter Taylor
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Dexter Taylor
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Sabrina
Character(s): Little Sabrina; Aunt Zelda
Synopsis: Sabrina and Zelda pick out a Christmas tree.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Little Archie's Mail Board

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Dexter Taylor
Inker(s): Dexter Taylor
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Little Archie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Christmas Comet (or Halley-Luiah!)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Bolling
Penciller(s): Bob Bolling
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose 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.)
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The Pikers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Bolling
Penciller(s): Bob Bolling
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Perilous Pike, and Mr. Weatherbee's obsession with catching him, were introduced in Bolling's Archie and Me #144.

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