Dates
- Cover date
- February 1980
- On sale
- November 22, 1979
- Pages
- 132
Editions and covers
Stories
- Untitled · 1 pages
A delivery truck arrives to the Rich mansion to deliver jewels which Mrs. Rich purchased plenty of. Unfortunately, only one delivery worker came because his partner fell ill and was unable to bring the mass amount of jewels to her by himself. Richie offered to help by using a coal chute to help transport the jewels to the basement of the mansion.
- The Richest Place in the World, Part I · 5 pages
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie Rich; Cadbury; Mr. Vandergilt; Mrs. Vandergilt
- The Richest Place in the World, Part II: The Picnic Must Go On · 1 pages
- Untitled · 2 pages
A robot named Rivet is helping with fixing vaults for Mr. Rich, but after Rivet hears Irona's name, he suddenly develops a crush on her.
- Pee Wee · 1 pages
Pee Wee finds a nickel on the sidewalk in front of a candy store, and Pee Wee wants to use it to buy candy for himself, but the nickel belongs to Dolores and after Pee Wee gives the nickel back to her, she kisses him on the cheek, which he thinks is a good deal.
- Untitled · 1 pages
While Dot watches a TV western, she believes Uncle Rush would make the fastest gun in the west, but he zooms by, and says he was on his way to the office with a pint of yogurt and claimed he had time to visit, but when Dot obliged, he finished his yogurt so fast, and zoomed off, making him the fastest yogurt eater in the west.
- A Hair-Raising Tale · 5 pages
After several mishaps where Dollar knocks down a table, Mr. Rich decides to send Dollar to the veterinarian where he is prescribed eyeglasses. The glasses are proven not to work, as he had a similar mishap afterwards. After Dollar banged into a barbershop pole while downtown, Richie realized the problem was that Dollar needed a haircut. After a visit to the barber, Dollar's mishaps were no longer prevalent.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Reggie tries to throw a snowball after seeing Richie walk by. The snowball misses Richie, but Richie does notice, and decides to get Reggie back by Richie taking off his hat, and placing it on a piece of wood, standing vertically, making Reggie believe he will succeed in getting Reggie. But little does Reggie know that Richie was behind Reggie and threw a snowball back at him, giving Reggie a taste of his own medicine.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie and his pals are eager to go on a three-mile hike, only to discover it is raining outside. Richie's alternate idea is a three-mile hike through the hallways of the Rich mansion!
- Improving Mr. Cheepers · 5 pages
After a crook gets away with stealing a bag of money which Mr. Cheepers was looking after, he realizes he needs to become stronger so he could foil future robberies. Richie has the accountant do exercises by lifting a barbell with money bags on each end, shooting baskets with a money bag, and pole vaulting into a pile of banknotes. Neither were effective, but one thing did successfully foil the next robbery: his loud yelling.
- Untitled · 2 pages
Richie and Reggie go on a treasure hunt up a hill, but when Richie tries to dig for treasure, oil is discovered, which splatters on Reggie, and in addition to oil, diamonds are discovered, which proves "the oily bird gets the worm".
- Mr. Gleam, Part I · 5 pages
Mr. Rich's scientists have developed a robot, Mr. Gleam, designed to polish items efficiently. He does a great job, until he discovers another shiny item on the Rich estate: water. After he falls into the pool, he ends up going haywire.
- Mr. Gleam, Part II: Polished Off Neatly · 5 pages
Mr. Gleam is getting out of control after the pool incident, and gets aggressive in his polishing, even to the extent to polishing Mr. Rich's car to a shrunken size, and polishing a statue to a shrunken size. After dirt ends up on the robot, Mr. Rich orders the robot to clean himself, which he does. But his aggressive cleaning is causing friction and shrinking himself down so much, he eventually becomes nonexistent, and Richie and his father realize that Irona is a better fit for the family.
- The Money Lesson · 5 pages
Richie learns from a hobo about the importance of finding money, after the hobo finds a banknote on the ground in a park. But Richie stumbles upon various riches along the path, and the hobo gets paid for a TV appearance, as well as land a job running a hot dog cart. Richie turns the riches he found into the lost and found department in the police station, citing he also had a little money lesson to go with it.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Mrs. Plump has Lotta help with the vacuuming, and using her superhuman strength, she lifts chairs and even the sofa which Pa Plump is taking a nap on. Mr. Plump claims the vacuum is too heavy for a little girl, without realizing her strength.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Mr. Polka has purchased a tape recorder and wants to record a singing number by Dot. After so many delays, Mr. Polka gets frustrated, but the reason for the delay is because the cuckoo clock on a nearby wall is soon going off.
- The Happiness Maker · 5 pages
Nurse Jenny can bring anything back to good health, including a computer, after it was learned it was not functioning properly.
- The Expanding Dot · 5 pages
Richie offers Dot a spherical device that expands upon pushing a button. But the device rolls out of Dot's hand and ends up in a dog's mouth, and it grows and ends up between two small trees, and after Dot tries to release it by kicking it, it is no longer spherical, but more in a zigzag shape, and when Dot reduces it, she places the shrunken device under a chair with a man sleeping on it. It appears to be a vertical shape now, and it rises until the man falls off. Since it is no longer spherical, Richie decides to use it to view a baseball game from above for free.
- Royal Target · Cadbury the Perfect Butler · 5 pages
After successfully dodging a boy's throwing of a snowball, Cadbury tells Richie a story about his experience as a bodyguard for the crown prince, who was actually mean to Cadbury.
- Snap-Happy · Mayda Munny · 5 pages
Mayda is desperate to show off, so she decides to hire someone to film a movie which showcases her wealth, but the final outcome is a film showcasing bloopers.
- Untitled · 1 pages
A boy is struggling to fly his kite, and believes Dot can use magic to create a breeze. She does succeed, as a breeze made his kite fly. But little does he know that it was Uncle Rush who was credited for the breeze.
- I Want to Handle Money · 5 pages
After Reggie's pie-throwing machine strikes his father instead of Richie, Mr. Van Dough is unsure how to get Reggie's mind off pranks. Richie invites Reggie to help Mr. Rich in his factory. Reggie reluctantly accepts, but he plans to take advantage of the tasks by playing pranks involving handling money, but Mr. Rich praised his work in creating new products, including shirts with a banknote design which would become a new fad, and Reggie gets paid and feels as if he's been had.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Two bullies try to manipulate Richie for financial gain by claiming they are poor and want to build a playhouse. But Richie informs them they don't need money; they can use one of Richie's playhouses, which prompts the boys to change their minds, implying that their tactic was defeated, which Richie was unaware about.
- Dr. Frankenspook, Part I · Richie Rich and Casper · 5 pages
Dr. Frankenspook lures Cadbury into his castle, in which he is about to turn Cadbury into a monster, a la Frankenstein.
- Dr. Frankenspook, Part II: The Perfect Monster · Richie Rich and Casper · 5 pages
Cadbury, now transformed into a monster, tries to attack Richie.
- Dr. Frankenspook, Part III: Hard-Hearted Haunts · Richie Rich and Casper · 5 pages
- Caught in the Act! · Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers · 5 pages
Jackie Jokers is booked for an entertainment gig in Rugovia, but unbeknownst to Jackie, when he thought he was going to appear on stage, it wasn't necessary, as Mr. Rich was recording his acts on video tape, never seen before the general public.
- The Allergy · Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers · 5 pages
Richie investigates the cause of Jackie's constant sneezing which impacts his performances. It turns out the cause of Jackie's allergy was cologne which Mr. Rich was wearing. When Mr. Rich changed his perfume, Richie was allergic to it.
- Dr. Jackie and Mr. Hide · Movie Special Presents · 5 pages
Parody of the film and novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
- Mystery Cruise · Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers · 5 pages
Jackie is invited on a cruise on board Mr. Rich's private cruise ship. But the next morning, the ship is hijacked by pirates -- or are they?
- The Fastest Travelers · 5 pages
Mr. Rich gets automatically sent to hazardous places, such as the Arctic region and the African savanna (with lions ready to attack), thanks to a device used by crooks which they will use to repeatedly transport until the Riches surrender a lot of money in ransom in order for them to stop. Richie and his father use special outfits that will deflect the effects on the crooks and they end up in the air and falling into a lake.
- The Successful Getaway, Part I · 5 pages
- The Successful Getaway, Part II: Very Well Drilled · 5 pages
Richie discovers that a drilling vehicle is being used in a crook's getaway, but they end up in a lake, as per Richie's plan to foil the robberies.
Reprinted in
Richie Rich Money World Digest (1991)