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Issue: Little Archie Comics Digest Annual #1
Publication Date: October 1977
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/16/1977
Volume: none
Pages: 196
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000691010
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 42 (34 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #146.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard US digest size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Archie
Character(s): Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Sabrina Spellman; Salem; Little Veronica Lodge
First Line: Look! One bird is kissing another... I'd like to do that!
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Disclose Notes: Cover gag redrawn from the cover of Archie's Pal Jughead #11.
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Little Archie and the Astral Amphibian

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Genres: fantasy, humorous, science fiction
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Tad; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Jarvis; Officer O'Beez; unnamed policemen; unnamed frogs
Synopsis: Tad, a friendly but snobbish frog from planet Sog, comes to Earth to take notes on the inferior human race. He meets Little Archie, who brings Tad to a costume party at the Lodge house, so that he can observe humans while everyone thinks he's a kid in a costume. But when Tad begins pocketing the silverware to bring back as samples to his home planet, Mr. Lodge thinks he's the noted disguise-wearing criminal Midgit Morris.
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Disclose Notes: Jaime Hernández named this as one of his favorite Bob Bolling stories (in the book "In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists").

In a digest reprint, the name of Jarvis (Mr. Lodge's butler in this story) was changed to the butler's usual name, Smithers.
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Law and Disorder

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Reggie Mantle; Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; unnamed kids
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee tries to get Reggie to behave by making him a hall monitor, but it just makes him power-mad.
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Disclose Notes: This is a remake of an earlier "big" Archie story where Archie and Reggie became hall monitors. It even carries over some of the earlier story's dialogue in simplified form ("The entire faculty will have to stay" becomes "all the teachers will have to stay too").
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Mystery of the Old Boathouse

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Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Little Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Susan Johnson; unnamed camp director; unnamed crooks
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica go to Silver Lake Camp, near the site of a recent rash of bank robberies. Betty thinks she notices someone hiding out in the old abandoned boathouse near the camp. She goes to investigate and is captured by the bank robbers. Veronica then goes looking for Betty.
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In Good Taste

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Coach Kleats
Synopsis: The teachers try to get Little Archie more physically active by having a race.
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Silent Stuff With Little Archie

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Ambrose Pipps; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Spotty
Synopsis: Four silent one-panel cartoons.
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What a Ball

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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The Long Walk

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Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Caramel; Little Veronica Lodge; the panda; the captain; the witch
Synopsis: Betty convinces Little Archie to walk her home after school. Not wanting to walk any more "sissy girls" home, Little Archie decides to take her via his famous short cut, through Spook Woods and the Hockomock Swamp, hoping that she'll turn back and go home by herself. Meanwhile, three of Betty's stuffed dolls -- a stupid panda, a vain sea captain, and a wise old witch -- comment on her behavior and try to figure out what (or who) is making her act so strangely.
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Disclose Notes: One of the great masterpieces of comics, this is also Bob Bolling's personal favorite among his stories (see http://www.comic-con.org/common/03upd2005_little_archie_50th.shtml).

"The Long Walk" was also selected as the best Little Archie story by Gary Brown in Comic Book Artist magazine (March 2004).

Page 6 of this story is one of the most famous Bolling creations: Little Archie and Betty's entire walk is portrayed in one huge panel, in the form of a map.
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The Card Collector

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Little Archie and Reggie trade baseball cards.
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Martian Mystery

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Feature(s): Super Duck
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Pop's Weighty Problem!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Moose Mason; Little Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Fred tries to use Little Archie's hula hoop to lose weight, not realizing that it's actually Ambrose's extra-small hoop.
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Beach Magic

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Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Little Sabrina
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Feature(s): Li'l Jinx Puzzler
First Line: Here is someone a space traveler might see...
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En-Lightning

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx is scared of a thunderstorm.
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Just His Luck

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
Synopsis: Little Archie finds a quarter.
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Gorilla

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Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Smedlington Smythe; un-named boater
Synopsis: An unusually intelligent gorilla, bound for the Riverdale zoo, escapes from his cage while being unloaded from the "Pride of Walvis Bay." The next day, the gorilla comes upon Little Archie and Jughead in their treehouse, and chases Little Archie through the woods, across the rocks of Carson's Creek, and finally out into the ocean on a rolling log.
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Disclose Notes: The events of this story happen concurrently with those of the following story, "Time Taxi."

The newspaper headline at the end includes another of Bolling's references to the "Prune Fungus."
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Time Taxi

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Genres: adventure, childrens, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Mad Doctor Doom; Chester Punkett; Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Smedlington Smythe; Cap'n Moon; unnamed Egyptian
Synopsis: When the gorilla escapes from the "Pride of Walvis Bay," Mad Doctor Doom and Chester take advantage of the commotion to jump ship again and head back to Crackstone Manor. Realizing that fate has decreed that Little Archie will always foil his plans for world domination, Mad Doctor Doom builds a time machine to take him and Chester back to B.L.A. (Before Little Archie) so they can take over the world without interference. But no matter where or when they go, an ancestor of Little Archie is there to stand in their way.
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Disclose Notes: The events of this story happen concurrently with the preceding story, "Gorilla." Doom and Chester escape from the ship as the events of "Gorilla" begin, and meet up with Little Archie just after "Gorilla" ends.

In his interview with Gary Brown (Comic Book Artist, March 2004), Bob Bolling called this "one of my favorite stories."
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx Holliday
First Line: Dear Daddy - Surprise!
Synopsis: Jinx writes a letter to her daddy, because she is homesick.
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One Panel Jokes With Little Archie

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis: Four one-panel cartoons.
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One Quiet Night

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Polly
Character(s): Polly Cooper; Little Betty Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Gregory; Officer O'Beez; Caramel
Synopsis: Mr. Cooper climbs up on the roof to rescue Betty's cat, just as Polly is walking home with her new boyfriend.
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Pages: 8
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Buzzin' Cousin

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Fangs Fogarty; Dewey Lippersnipper
Synopsis: Little Archie recalls his introduction to Ronnie's cousin Dewey Lippersnipper, a kid with a perpetual grin and an ability to do everything Little Archie can do, only better.
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The New and the Old

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Little Reggie
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Little Archie Fun Page
First Line: What's fun about it?
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Space Shot

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis: Little Archie plays spaceman.
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Speech Teach

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Genres: humorous, teen
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Pages: 6
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Road Race

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Super Duck
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Pages: 6
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A Nice Cool Gal

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Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Little Sabrina
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Pages: 7
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Laugh Along With Little Archie

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Ambrose Pipps; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis: One-panel gags with the Little Archie gang.
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Disclose Notes: The last appearance of Ambrose (who had already been dropped from the main stories) in the original run of "Little Archie." He returned in the '80s.
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What's the Use

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): The Little Archies
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Timing!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx writes a letter.
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Li'l Jinx Puzzles?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Li'l Jinx
Character(s): Li'l Jinx
Synopsis: Color the numbered squares and a crossword puzzle.
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Fishing Fool

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Betty proves that she's better than Little Archie at catching fish.
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Pages: 2
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A Born Leader

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis: Miss Grundy tells the lethargic Little Archie to show some get-up-and-go.
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The China Doll Mystery

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Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Professor Chu; unnamed shopkeeper; unnamed cook
Synopsis: After Ronnie buys a small statue in a china shop, a mysterious stranger follows Ronnie, Mr. Lodge and Little Archie to the Lodge house and tries to steal the statue by any means necessary.
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Pages: 8
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Highway To Danger

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Chick Cooper; Fred Andrews; un-named policeman
Synopsis: Little Archie and Betty are riding in a truck with Betty's brother Chick. When the brakes get jammed and the truck crashes, they escape unharmed because they were wearing seat belts.
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Disclose Notes: This story encourages the readers to wear seat belts, which were still not widely used at the time.
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Non-Cents

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Gigi
First Line: Boy! I don't know what Greg does with his money!
Synopsis: Jinx frets over what Greg does with his money.
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What’s My Lion?

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Feature(s): Super Duck
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Pages: 4
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Better Late

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Phoebe Finch; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Dilton Doiley
Synopsis: Little Archie is constantly late for school, and is warned that he'll be kept in detention for two hours if he's late again. The next morning, he starts out early, but is delayed when he stops to put a baby bird back in its nest, and the mother bird attacks him.
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Miss-Fortune!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis: Another version of the old fortune-telling machine joke ("It got your weight wrong too!").
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Ga Ga Over Gary

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Polly
Character(s): Little Betty Cooper; Polly Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Gary Grover; Little Veronica Lodge; Evelyn Evernever
Synopsis: Betty's big sister Polly gets a date with Gary Grover, "the most popular boy in the whole junior class." To go on the date, she has to break her promise to make a dress for Betty's doll.
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Disclose Notes: First appearance of Polly Cooper. She would have her own story in each of the next three issues, plus another story in Little Archie #36. She was brought into the "big" Archie continuity in the late '80s.
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Venus Revisited

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Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Herbnik; Greenback Klutchum; Waldo Pinckley; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Ambrose Pipps; un-named Venusians
Synopsis: On the planet Venus, a Venusian named Herbnik invents the BaBongos, and plays music that is unacceptable to his people. He decides to leave Venus and travels to Earth, where Little Archie saves his life by getting him a drink of ammonia. Little Archie then sets up a meeting between Herbnik and the talented talent agent Mr. Greenback Klutchum, who turns Herbnik into an Earth-wide musical star. But when humans start copying Herbnik's music, Earthlings reject him in favor of musicians who look like them.
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Disclose Notes: A combination of science-fiction and satire of the music business. Herbnik's musical downfall is an obvious reference to the copying of African-American music by white performers in the late '50s.
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Class Picture

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