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Issue: The Adventures of Little Archie #31
Publication Date: June 1964
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Issues: #31 of 35 Issues (40 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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: 04/01/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 12 (9 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 U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In5
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Fangs Fogarty
First Line: This'll teach you to take my girl's skates!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This scene does not correspond with any actual Little Archie story; it's just a generic "action hero" pose for Little Archie.
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Picnic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Granny Sage
Synopsis: Little Archie, Betty and Veronica go for a picnic in the Hockomock Swamps, near the home of the local hermit, Granny Sage. They discover why Granny never comes out of her house: there's a giant, man-eating turtle living in the swamp.
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In Content Item: FlagArchie Annual Digest #31 published January 1977
as Picnic [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Attack of the Ice Mice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason; un-named Captain; un-named sailor; un-named driver
Synopsis: In Mad Doctor Doom's latest plan for world domination, he gets the help of the Ice Mice, a rare group of Arctic mice whose frozen breath can form a wall of ice that's thick enough to stop any bullet. He and Chester bring the mice to Riverdale, and try to use them to steal the Rare Ruby Rooster from the Humble Home Bank. But fate once again intervenes to put Little Archie in Doom's way: when Chester steals a silver fox tail from a bike to spruce up his car, that bike belongs to Little Archie's pal Jughead.
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In Issue: FlagArchie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #8 published November 1978
In Content Item: FlagLittle Archie Digest Magazine #14 [Direct Edition] published August 1995
as Attack of the Ice Mice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: The newspaper story about the Rare Ruby Rooster mentions the "outbreak of the Prune Fungus." The nonexistent disease "Prune Fungus" is a recurring gag in Bolling's stories.
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Flight of the Penny Black

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Moose Mason
Synopsis: When Fred is looking over his stamp collection, an antique envelope with a rare "Penny Black" stamp is carried out the window by a strong wind. The boys put the envelope on Little Archie's model plane, and the "capricious" spring breeze keeps the plane in the air despite Fred's efforts to get it down.
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In Content Item: FlagLittle Archie Comics Digest Annual #3 published November 1978
as Flight of the Penny Black [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: An example of Bolling's mystical side: a slapstick story is given a fantasy twist through captions and images that seem to suggest that the wind has a mind of its own.

Two of Bolling's own hobbies, stamp collecting and model planes, are referred to in this story.
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The Missing Mouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: To get Little Archie to come over, Veronica pretends there's a mouse in the house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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A Friend In Need

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Al; George
Synopsis: To avoid getting a bath, Spotty runs off without his collar and is captured by dogcatchers. To get back to Little Archie, Spotty tries to make a seemingly-impossible escape from the dog pound.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Never Too Old

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie's Teachers
Character(s): Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Archie Andrews
Synopsis: While looking for supplies in the storeroom, Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy overhear the children chanting derogatory rhymes about her clothes and his toupee.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLittle Archie Comics Digest Annual #3 published November 1978
as Teachers Are Never Too Old [Story on Interior Page(s)]with "Teachers Are Never Too Old" title
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Texas Longhorn

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Top Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Little Archie likes Veronica because she's so bad at top-spinning, instead of Betty, who's too good at it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: One of the first examples of Taylor making the kids act more like their teenage counterparts, with Archie being romantically interested in Veronica as in the "big" Archie comics. Taylor told Gary Brown (in Comic Book Artist, March 2004) that this was in response to requests from the editors: "They wanted a love interest like the Archie characters. You know, Betty likes Archie, but he always goes for Veronica. That's what they wanted. I mean, the editor said, I know little boys don't necessarily like little girls, but the readers want that."
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Viewpoint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Greg
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx draws a cartoon.
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Pages: 1
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Grooming Your Dog

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
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The Lucky Coin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Major; Ringer; un-named adults
Synopsis: At the circus, Little Archie's wallet is stolen and with it, his lucky coin. He and Jughead discover that the pickpocket actually works for the owner of the circus.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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