Dates
- Cover date
- July 1982
- On sale
- April 15, 1982
- Pages
- 132
Editions and covers
Stories
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie's electronic video game has arrived to the Rich mansion, but Reggie is not interested in it - until he discovers it spews gold nuggets when achieving a goal on the video game that Richie and Freckles is playing.
- Richie Rich and the Funny Machine · 5 pages
Keenbean has invented a machine that creates jokes designed for a TV comedy on a network Mr. Rich owns. However, the machine causes other machines to laugh, including Mr. Rich's electric razor, and some appliances. Things get out of hand when a vault is laughing, and spewing riches all over the estate grounds. Keenbean believes the behavior is through telepathy, and then the elevator laughs and starts dropping.
- Untitled · 2 pages
Mr. Rich wants Richie to have more mature interests rather than play with toys. While Richie watches road work being done, the workman's truck breaks down, and eventually another workman needing an elephant to move logs. Richie's toys came in handy in both situations.
- Beware of Grinning Gadgets · 5 pages
After Richie saves his father and Keenbean from injury, Richie realizes that pulling the plug on Keenbean's invention was the route to go. The machine was plugged back in and demonstrated it can only tell jokes about machinery. Keenbean must find the solution to the problem, after Mr. Rich threatened to have the machine destroyed. The solution to the problem was having the machine read sad and gloomy books. But it turns out the machine laughed again because Richie had left a funny Casper comic among the other sad books.
- Rich for a Day, Part 1 · 5 pages
A young boy won a contest in which he will serve Mr. Rich's duties for a day while Richie's parents are enjoying their day off fishing on board a yacht. Richie shows Stevie around the mansion, and Stevie takes advantage of his being Mr. Rich for a day by ordering items when he is really faking it and Richie doesn't realize a robbery is about to happen.
- First and Last · 5 pages
After Stevie claims he has ordered ice cream for all of the staff, an ice cream truck pulls in, but really it was operated by Stevie's boss - an organized crime boss, and kidnaps everybody in the mansion, and carries the stolen money via cargo helicopter. But Richie uses a vent to expel the money which gets noticed by Mr. Rich, who follows the money to a remote island where the crooks are located. When the Coast Guard made an arrest, it was revealed that the stolen money was actually play money.
- Untitled · 1 pages
As Gloria and Richie have a conversation about different methods of flight and Penny has a fantasy of every example. But after mentioning the idea of flapping wings like a bird, Penny really dozes off as if she is tired from flapping wings.
- Fisherchef · 5 pages
Chef Pierre claims he is an expert fisherman, and demonstrates to a fish delivery worker his ability to use a fishing rod. When he ties a steak to the end of the fishing rod like bait, he expects Dollar to chomp onto it and pull him in. But instead, he pulls in a lion which a circus owner left on the Rich estate's lawn. Luckily, the lion is harmless.
- Who's Missing You? · 5 pages
Mayda is missing and her mother offers a reward for her return. It turns out that Mayda created a secret hideaway inside a cave and is faking a kidnapping plot for the purpose of Richie finding her and getting his mind off Gloria. As always, Mayda's scheme backfires.
- The Extraordinary Dot Remover · 5 pages
Dot gets in trouble with her Uncle Branes' new invention - a gadget which removes dots.
- She's Good for What Ails Anything · 5 pages
Two bad guys plot a kidnapping while Nurse Jenny tries to free a seal caught between rocks, tend to an octopus snarled up in wire, and tend to an ailing sea monster. The bad guys successfully kidnap Nurse Jenny, claiming she is worth a lot of money, and decide to hold her for ransom. But their tactic is foiled thanks to Jenny's friends - wildlife.
- Badman is Loose! · 5 pages
Badman escapes from prison after Richie and Cadbury perform for prison inmates, and steals money from a men's clothing store by destroying a cash register with his bare hand, and steals guns in a gun shop by smashing a glass case. Badman steals a bakery van which has a key in the ignition, and is headed for the Rich mansion where he destroys a time lock to access money. Richie and Cadbury are now on an arrest warrant for assisting Badman's escape.
- Badman is Loose, Part 2: The Last Split · 5 pages
As Richie and Cadbury head to Badman's hideout, Badman uses his hand to split a tree to fall in their path. Badman relies on karate chops in order to find Richie and Cadbury who hide from the fugitive. Badman ultimately gets captured when he splits a safe which contains glue that spews on him.
- It's Snow Use · 5 pages
Rich Invention Center employee Professor Keenbean becomes obsessed with finding a practical use for snow.
- Action Shots · 5 pages
When the school Photo Club is told to get some action shots, Reggie tries to get a photo of someone falling down.
- Out in the Open · 5 pages
A crook claiming to be a landscape artist visits the Rich estate where Richie shows him all the sights, but he intends to steal valuables. Richie had painted gold nuggets to look like rocks, and his golden piggy bank was empty. Plus he did manage to sketch a pond, but was really the top of a gigantic underground diamond.
- Treasured Chest · 5 pages
Cadbury and Richie have their hands tied to their backs, but Cadbury's chest comes in handy when it comes to escaping from harm's way and even foiling crooks.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After observing a TV show in which someone is playing a piano while bending backwards, Mr. Woody decides to do his carpentry work while his body is in awkward positions. Mr. Woody had done his job right once for a change, and Mr. Rich was quite impressed.
- Beehive Yourself · 5 pages
Lotta's class takes a field trip to observe nature.
- The Very Nick of Time · 5 pages
Cadbury tells Richie about his experiences in which he managed to escape from harm's way at the last second.
- Cooped Up · 5 pages
When Richie must stay inside because of a cold, his cousin discovers all the different things to do inside the Rich mansion.
- Helpful Hound · 5 pages
Dollar tries every attempt to be heroic and helpful, but misunderstands every situation - including a crook dropping a money bag and giving it back to the crook. He becomes very helpful when he frees Chef Pierre from getting stuck in taffy he made using a malfunctioning taffy machine.
Characters
Reprinted in
Richie Rich Digest Magazine (1986), Richie Rich (1960), Million Dollar Digest (1986)