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Issue: Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine #20
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
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Pages: 132
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UPC/EAN: 0271000691020
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 29 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard US digest size
Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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A Trip Into Space

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Sabrina Spellman; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Dilton Doily; Little Veronica Lodge
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Miscellaneous
1
Meets the Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
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Miscellaneous
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Dark Thoughts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
Jinx is glad for Charley's presence on a spooky trip home.
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Miscellaneous
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Right to the Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Murgatroid Palanski; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Shapely; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Little Archie is supposed to take the Valentine Day cards to Miss Shapely's house but Mr. Weatherbee wants the honors. Little Archie accidentally gives him the wrong address, the address to the plumber that Fred had angered earlier in the day.
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Miscellaneous
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The Pie and I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Jughead tells Betty that the way to get Little Archie is to bake his favorite pie.
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Miscellaneous
5
Credits from the reprint in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #190, no credits listed in this digest.
The Little Archie Joke Page

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Why do you say the baseball catcher read Cinderella?
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Gosh! Do you think I really deserve first place in the snow sculpture, Mr. Weatherbee?
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Miscellaneous
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Collection of one-panel jokes.
Paper-Boy, or "The Strange Case of Mrs. Skratchlow's Cat" -- or "Nobody's Purr-fect!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Little Dilton Doiley; Mrs. Skratchlow; Yakaboo; Chick Cooper; Mrs. Doiley
Little Archie is helping out Chick Cooper on his paper route. When Chick is sick and Little Archie has to handle the route himself, he and Dilton decide to test out a machine that can throw papers automatically. Little Archie gets Spotty to pull Dilton's machine, which works fine until Spotty sees his childhood enemy, Mrs. Skratchlow's cat Yakaboo, and takes off after him.
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The Story Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy
Beanie the Genie
Hilda insists that Zelda has too many books, so Zelda tries to sell them at a flea market.
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Miscellaneous
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The Helper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Greg tries to help Jinx and only makes things worse.
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Miscellaneous
1
Real Sports

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
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Miscellaneous
7
Not So Fast

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy, humorous
Little Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee
Sabrina's aunts take over her class and teach using actual letters from Little Archie's mail bag.
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Miscellaneous
5
Promotion Commotion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
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Miscellaneous
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Fool's Folly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty
Little Archie plays April Fool's jokes on his father.
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Miscellaneous
4
The Wax Wagon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Mr. Weatherbee; Mr. Svenson; Miss Phlips; Professor Flutesnoot; Little Archie Andrews (cameo); Little Jughead Jones (cameo); Miss Beazly (cameo); Miss Grundy (cameo)
Faced with budget problems, Mr. Weatherbee wants Professor Flutesnoot to rework his new riding lawn mower so it can polish floors for Svenson.
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Miscellaneous
5
Little Archie and His Teachers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot
When Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy hear the students complaining about school, they imagine what school would be like if their students were the teachers and they were the students.
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Miscellaneous
4
A Good Sport

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Reggie tries to learn the art of voodoo to cause trouble for others; Sabrina uses some real magic to teach him a lesson.
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Miscellaneous
5
The Board Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Greg; Gigi; Li'l Jinx
Gigi hides her skateboarding ability from Greg.
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Miscellaneous
5
Gags, Giggles 'N' Gals

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie
But you said you wanted to go sailing, Veronica!
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Miscellaneous
1
Three one-panel cartoons.
The Old Shell Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Dilton Doiley;Little Chuck Clayton; Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge
The kids are visiting Ronnie's beach cottage, where her parents are fighting over proposed renovations to the house. To get away from the Lodges' fighting, the children go down to the beach to collect shells. There they find the biggest shell of all, and an example of what can happen when fighting gets out of hand: a shell from World War II.
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Miscellaneous
10
First appearance of Chuck in the Little Archie comics.
In the Bag

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy, humorous
Little Sabrina; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
When Jughead forgets his lunch, Sabrina gives him a magic lunch bag that will give him all the food he wants.
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Miscellaneous
5
Modern Smart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Li'l Jinx
Jinx adjusts her snowman to have a more impressionist feel.
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Miscellaneous
1
Dance Date

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle
Little Archie finds that Jughead has how-to books on dating, and becomes convinced that he's a rival for Veronica.
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Miscellaneous
5
One More Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Coach Kleats
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Miscellaneous
1
The Game Plan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Li'l Jinx; Gigi; Charley Hawse; Greg
Jinx challenges Greg's team to a pickup football game to demonstrate that women are equal to men. Surprisingly, Greg readily accepts.
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Miscellaneous
5
Winning Ways

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Spotty; Fangs Fogarty
Ronnie keeps trying to tag along with Little Archie and Spotty. He's so busy running away from her that he doesn't notice he's wandered into the territory of Fangs Fogarty and the South Side Serpents. Ronnie beats Little Archie up herself to prevent the Serpents from doing it.
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Miscellaneous
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Tragic Magic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Fangs Fogarty
Little Archie sabotages Reggie's card trick.
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Miscellaneous
2
The Loser

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Mort the worry wart; Li'l Jinx
Jinx suggests Mort write a book about his phenomenal bad luck.
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Miscellaneous
5
My Number One Gal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Little Veronica Lodge; Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper
Little Reggie and Little Jughead try to help Little Betty get her picture in the paper.
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Miscellaneous
4
Lettering credit from 2016 reprint.

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