CATALOG RECORD
Little Archie Comics Digest Annual #3
Dates
- Cover date
- 1978
- On sale
- August 1, 1978
- Pages
- 196
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- Stampede! · 10 pages
A magic carpet is accidentally delivered to the Andrews home. Little Archie winds up taking a ride on the carpet with its creator, Abu Broadloombo, "carpet-weaver extraordinary and pin-ball champion of all Persia." But Abu can only keep the carpet flying when he can concentrate, and he can't concentrate without a lighted cigar -- and he loses all his matches as they're flying over Africa.
- Remember This Day · Little Archie · 7 pages
Needing a break from business decisions, Mr. Lodge takes Archie, Jughead, and Veronica on a picnic by the old swimming hole. Unfortunately, Archie and Jughead's usual picnic spot is in a pasture with Farmer Farley's bull.
- A Lesson In French · 2 pages
Little Archie and his dad look for a bottle of French dressing.
- Think Cool! · 1 pages
On a hot day, Jinx fans herself with a "Think" sign.
- The Baby Quitter · 6 pages
Little Archie's babysitter, Susan, is trapped in a relationship with a big, conceited boy named "Jumbo" Jones, who won't let any other man near her. Little Archie comes up with a way to scare Jumbo away from Susan.
- The Glacier Glow-Gun · 10 pages
Mad Doctor Doom builds a heat gun capable of melting the polar ice caps and flooding all the coastal cities. To make sure that Little Archie won't interfere with his plan, he and Chester capture their red-haired nemesis and encase him in a vat of gelatin at Crackstone Manor.
- Hidey Ho! · 6 pages
Super builds a hideout under the staircase so he can hide when the landlord comes for the rent.
- Flight of the Penny Black · 6 pages
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.
- A Happy Holiday · 6 pages
When Little Archie says he wishes there were no school tomorrow, it sets off a chain of rumors that leads to the creation of a new civic holiday.
- Blow Up! · 4 pages
When Jinx and Greg make too much noise indoors, Jinx's father blows up an inflatable wading pool so they can play outdoors.
- Troubles of a Money Lender · 1 pages
Little Archie waits outside the school to collect a debt from Mushy Miller, but he doesn't seem as anxious to shake down the other kids he lent money to.
- Ball Happy · Little Archie Andrews · 6 pages
Little Archie and the gang play a Student vs. Faculty baseball game.
- Roger's Riot · 6 pages
Fred and Mary think that the "Roger" Little Archie keeps talking to is an imaginary friend. At an inopportune time, they discover Roger is quite real.
- Time Travels · 8 pages
Miss Grundy gives a homework assignment of an essay titled "If Your Wish Could Come True." Little Sabrina dreams of making the others' wishes come true, with unexpected consequences.
- Super Duck · 8 pages
Super has a Tasmanian Flunkie, which only lays one egg per year. He gets a feisty rooster to keep her company, but after she lays the egg, the rooster won't let Super near it.
- The Golf Bug · 6 pages
Little Jughead fixes Mr. Lodge's golf cart, which leads to a wild ride on the golf course.
- Fair Game · 6 pages
When the gang is lost in the woods, Reggie acts abusively toward the animals, until Jughead shows everyone that the animals are nicer and smarter than they are.
- Football Foolery · Ambrose · 4.75 pages
The girls won't let the boys have any brownies unless they let Ambrose play football with them.
- Ambrose · 0.25 pages
Ambrose isn't satisfied with a milkshake he buys from Little Archie and Moose.
- Flower Power! · 4 pages
Li'l Jinx covers the interior of her house with decorative flowers that stick to any surface.
- For the Birds · 1 pages
Little Archie wants architect Ambrose to design a boat, while Ambrose wants to design a birdhouse.
- A Dangerous Adventure · 10 pages
A witch grants Little Archie's wish to have the powers of his hero, Captain Courage. He and Spotty (granted similar powers) go to fight crime with the timid actor who plays Captain Courage on TV.
- The Master of Junk-Ri-La! · 6 pages
Hans Yunkmann creates fabulous machines from junk and has his gang use them to commit crimes.
- In Time to Save a Dime! · 2 pages
Super races to the theater to beat the dime price raise at 5:00 p.m., but is nailed for several traffic violations that cost him $200 in fines.
- Champion Chomper · 1 pages
Miss Grundy tells the boys that Mr. Weatherbee was "heavyweight champion" in college.
- All Dolled Up · Little Archie · 6 pages
Tired of Veronica flaunting her material advantages over Betty, Reggie and Jughead team up to make Veronica think Betty has a highly advanced new doll.
- Daddy's Diet · Polly · 8 pages
Hal promises to buy Polly the five-dollar blouse she wants if she helps him to stay on his diet. So Polly enlists her boyfriend Danny to help her come up with some ingenious ways to keep her father away from food.
- The Uninvited Guests · 3 pages
Fred buys a Swiss music box at an auction, and discovers that it has a tiny Swiss goatherd and goat inside.
- Helping Out! · 4 pages
Jinx tries to do favors for her friends, but they all backfire.
- Wish Boner · 1 pages
Betty and Veronica make a wish over a chicken wishbone.
- News from Home · Little Sabrina · 6 pages
While at summer camp, Little Sabrina gets a copy of the Riverdale newspaper. She reads about a crime wave and uses her magic to see if her aunts are all right.
- Teachers Are Never Too Old · Little Archie's Teachers · 5 pages
While looking for supplies in the storeroom, Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy overhear the children chanting derogatory rhymes about her clothes and his toupee.
- For Ham the Bell Tolls · Super Duck, featuring Ham Burger · 3 pages
Ham uses his head (literally) to ring the bell to alert the firemen of a forest fire.
- Hunters of the Skies · Nature's Notebook · 1 pages
Article about falcons with 1/4 page illustration.
- Automation · 4 pages
Greg takes Jinx to use a vending machine to get some candy, but the machine doesn't give her what she picked.
- Watch Out For Girls · 8 pages
Little Archie teaches Ambrose to beware of girls, especially Ronnie Lodge, who is "sneakier than all the rest" and hits him whenever he touches her pedigreed cat Smedley.
- The Phantom of Landlocked Lakes · 10 pages
Little Archie discovers the truth of a legend about a relative of the Loch Ness Monster, who lives in a lake near Mr. Lodge's country estate, and about a ghostly Indian woman who has waited by the lake ever since her mate was killed by the monster.