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Issue: Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine #21
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
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Pages: 132
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UPC/EAN: 02710006910221
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 29 (28 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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childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews
Boom! Boom!
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A Clean Sweep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Pop Tate; Little Veronica; Little Archie; Smithers; Hiram Lodge
Little Archie is hired to clean the pool at the Lodge Mansion.
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Lettering credit from Betty and Veronica Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #243.
Cartoon Laffs

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childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Veronica Lodge
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Three gag strips.
Film Fun

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childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Director Little Archie shoots a Western film with Ronnie as the leading lady.
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City Limits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx; Greg
Jinx and Greg have a close encounter.
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Say It With Flowers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy, humorous
Little Sabrina Spellman; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Jughead Jones; Miss Haggly
Little Sabrina enters the Student Teacher Flower Show with her magical flower.
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A New Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge; Smithers; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones
Mr. Lodge causes confusion when he shaves off his mustache.
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The Right Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Jughead Jones
Little Jughead hears some bells.
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What Are Friends For?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Granny Sage
Betty tries to be Little Archie's friend, but he's not interested in being friends with a girl. What he's interested in is fishing, but when he takes his father's rod and reel without permission, he loses it in the middle of Weedum Pond. The only person who can tell him how to find the rod and reel is Granny Sage, the mysterious old woman who lives in the Hockomock Swamps, but he finds that he needs Betty's help to remember Granny's instructions.
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As Bolling explains in a footnote, Granny Sage first appeared in "Picnic" (Little Archie #31). Here, she helps Little Archie in exchange for what he did in that story.
Date Bait

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Smithers (cameo)
Little Jughead asks Betty on a date, but he really wants her to go on a quiz show with him to help him win big prizes.
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A Tale to Bug Ya

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
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The Camping Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews
Fred decides to accompany Archie and Jughead on their hike to Log Jam Lake, so Jughead decides to put him to good use.
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Down Under

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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
That's right, Fat Charley! I bet I can stay underwater for five minutes!
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Young Fun

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childrens
The Little Archies
Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Fred doesn't understand the slang Little Archie and his friends use, and he doesn't like the music the Little Archies play so he decides to give them sheet music from his youth.
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Fly Boy

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Subject Matter
childrens, fantasy, humorous
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Prize Catch

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childrens, humorous
Greg! You've been grumbling for the last hour - stop complaining about not catching any fish!
Greg gets into trouble when he gives a fish he and Jinx caught to Gigi.
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Crying the Blues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Hold it, Jug!
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High and Low!

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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx got second best grade in history. So, what did Charley get?
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The Island of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Chester Punkett; Mad Doctor Doom
Little Archie and his friends crash-land on an island inhabited by Little Archie's old enemies Mad Doctor Doom and Chester, who plan to use a metallic fire-breathing dragon to rob banks in Riverdale.
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The first appearance of Mad Doctor Doom and Chester since the '60s, and the only Mad Doctor Doom story by Dexter Taylor (Bob Bolling, who created the characters, usually handled their return appearances after this). Their return appearance may have been influenced by the then-recent launch of the Little Archie digest, which reprinted the original Mad Doctor Doom stories for a new generation of readers.
Dog Goned

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Jughead Jones; Hot Dog, Jr.; Little Archie Andrews; Terry "Pop" Tate; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
Little Jughead buys breakfast for him and Hot Dog Jr. from Pop Tate. Little Jughead takes extra to school for lunch and Hot Dog Jr. can't wait.
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The Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Smithers
Mr. Lodge takes the kids on an expedition to find a replacement for the priceless urn that Little Archie broke.
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The Last Word

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
Oohboy! You're impossible, Li'l Jinx!
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Help Mates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
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The Sale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Reggie Mantle; Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy; Mr. Svenson; Fangs Fogarty
The School cancels sports because it's broke. Little Reggie plans a school garage sale to raise money but gets a little carried away.
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The Big Show

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Spotty; un-named fleas; un-named circus performers
A troupe of performing fleas settles on Spotty.
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The Right Form

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Subject Matter
Little Archie
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Aim of the Game!

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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx; Greg; Gigi
Li'l Jinx is upset when her friends are better at archery than she is.
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Test Pest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Little Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones
Reggie cheats on a test by copying Archie's answers, but Miss Grundy was prepared for that and catches him anyway.
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Facts about Growing Things

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
What did you plant over there, Daddy?
Hap plants a vegetable garden.
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