CATALOG RECORD
Little Archie Comics Digest Annual #1
Dates
- Cover date
- October 1977
- On sale
- August 16, 1977
- Pages
- 196
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- Little Archie and the Astral Amphibian · 10 pages
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.
- Law and Disorder · 6 pages
Mr. Weatherbee tries to get Reggie to behave by making him a hall monitor, but it just makes him power-mad.
- Mystery of the Old Boathouse · Little Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica · 9 pages
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.
- In Good Taste · 2 pages
The teachers try to get Little Archie more physically active by having a race.
- What a Ball · 6 pages
- The Long Walk · 9 pages
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.
- The Card Collector · 1 pages
Little Archie and Reggie trade baseball cards.
- Martian Mystery · Super Duck · 6 pages
- Pop's Weighty Problem! · 4 pages
Fred tries to use Little Archie's hula hoop to lose weight, not realizing that it's actually Ambrose's extra-small hoop.
- Beach Magic · Little Sabrina · 6 pages
- En-Lightning · 4 pages
Li'l Jinx is scared of a thunderstorm.
- Just His Luck · 1 pages
Little Archie finds a quarter.
- Gorilla · 10 pages
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.
- Time Taxi · 11 pages
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.
- Untitled · 2 pages
Jinx writes a letter to her daddy, because she is homesick.
- One Quiet Night · Polly · 8 pages
Mr. Cooper climbs up on the roof to rescue Betty's cat, just as Polly is walking home with her new boyfriend.
- Buzzin' Cousin · 8 pages
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.
- The New and the Old · Little Reggie · 6 pages
- Space Shot · 1 pages
Little Archie plays spaceman.
- Speech Teach · 6 pages
- Road Race · Super Duck · 6 pages
- A Nice Cool Gal · Little Sabrina · 7 pages
- What's the Use · The Little Archies · 7 pages
- Timing! · 1 pages
Li'l Jinx writes a letter.
- Fishing Fool · 2 pages
Betty proves that she's better than Little Archie at catching fish.
- A Born Leader · 1 pages
Miss Grundy tells the lethargic Little Archie to show some get-up-and-go.
- The China Doll Mystery · 8 pages
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.
- Highway To Danger · 5 pages
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.
- Non-Cents · 1 pages
Jinx frets over what Greg does with his money.
- What’s My Lion? · Super Duck · 4 pages
- Better Late · 7 pages
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.
- Miss-Fortune! · 1 pages
Another version of the old fortune-telling machine joke ("It got your weight wrong too!").
- Ga Ga Over Gary · Polly · 8 pages
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.
- Venus Revisited · 10 pages
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.