Dates
- Cover date
- November 1978
- On sale
- July 1, 1978
- Pages
- 132
Editions and covers
Stories
- Untitled · 1 pages
A very obese man is staying overnight in the Rich mansion, but he is so obese, he cannot walk up the stairs - but lucky for him, the staircase is actually an escalator case.
- Wedded Blitz, Part 1 · 5 pages
Mayda imagines her married life with Richie. She believes that they will be happy together, but Richie was actually miserable and his servants have quit because they can't stand Mayda.
- Untitled · 1 pages
A photograph of Dollar makes Chef Pierre believe he is waiting to steal the roast beef from the kitchen, but when the real Dollar comes in out of nowhere and steals the roast beef, Pierre is puzzled. It turns out Dollar had snipped his likeness that was to be used in a dog food ad, for the purpose of being sneaky.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie learns that Chef Pierre put a cake in the oven, and the dough rose so fast, it went poof. Richie used the exact same dialogue Pierre used after Richie put his weekly allowance in a vault and it caused a boom.
- Wedded Blitz Part 2: The Marriage · 5 pages
Mayda tricks Richie into marrying her by staging a fake movie set. This plan seems to work but it turns out that it was a fisherman (a parishioner's twin brother) playing the role as a fisherman. This means that Richie and Mayda are not really married, much to Richie's relief and Mayda's chagrin.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie's parents are eager to see a performance of "Romeo and Juliet", but the tickets were sold out. Thanks to Jackie Jokers, Mr. and Mrs. Rich have gotten the best seats in the house - the balcony, which is also where the actress playing Juliet is performing from.
- Untitled · 1 pages
An ice cream factory worker has left his ice cream machine working too fast, and it explodes, spewing ice cream all over the floor. But Lotta, who was already inside, ate her way out.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot buys a typewriter with a $5 bill she receives for her birthday. But the typewriter has only one key - a period, which is used to fulfill her dot obsession.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Cadbury is prompt when it comes to getting three things for Mrs. Rich, but when she expects to sit down on a chair, she falls to the floor, and Cadbury apologized with a chair in his hands, saying that three out of four isn't bad.
- Cover Dog · 5 pages
Dollar has a nightmare after he has pictures taken for the ocver of a magazine, so Richie takes him to a lab to examine the source of Dollar's nightmare.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie has so much money in his bank account, he is earning $700 a second in interest. When a hobo asks Richie if he has three seconds to spare, Richie does the math, and places $2,100 in the hobo's hat.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Gloria expects no expensive gift from Richie for her birthday, and Richie suggests a record, which she believes to be a phonograph record. When Richie arrives, her gift ended up being a ring with a jewel that is 2 1/2 pounds. It's a record - a record-breaker, that is.
- Gold Nose · 5 pages
A prospector nicknamed "Gold Nose" sneezes every time he sees gold.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After Dot mentions her hobbies - all of which are connected to her dot obsession - to her teacher, she reveals she does have an interest in animals - she has pets all of whose names are associated with dots.
- Untitled · 1 pages
A girl tells a boy that she believe Lotta is quite strong, and Lotta proves it by juggling three heavy objects. Lotta is so tired afterwards, she can't even lift her feet. The boy tells the other girl she shouldn't believe everything she hears.
- Safes at Home · 5 pages
After the Riches leave for a weekend trip, two crooks attempt a robbery by cracking a safe. However, one safe leads to another, ending to a small safe that contains a note inside which informs the crooks that by the time they got this far, it is Monday morning, the Riches returned, and the police were notified, waiting from behind.
- Bored Billy · 5 pages
Cadbury tries to find something for a boy to do, but no matter how much Cadbury tries, he doesn't succeed - but Billy ultimately becomes interested in counting Richie's allowance using a calculator.
- The Club · 5 pages
Richie and his friends visit a club designed for snobs which is run by president Reggie. However, Reggie's rules are strict, and Richie and his friends repeatedly violate the rules. The kids do not agree with the rules and ultimately decide to do their own activity - swimming in a pond.
- Wash New? · 5 pages
A genius tries to fix Mr. Plump's washing machine, but ends up converting it to a color television.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie doesn't expect Cadbury to go inside the low space keeping his chest out to retrieve a ball that rolled inside - but he does.
- The Return of the Onion, Part 1 · 5 pages
The Onion has escaped from prison and deterred the police using his powerful onion breath. The villain decides to kidnap Mrs. Rich and hold her for ransom.
- The Return of the Onion Part 2: Can an Onion Lose its Smell? · 5 pages
Richie uses a device to track down the Onion, but then decides to pay a grocery delivery worker for a bag of onions and his uniform for the purpose of trying to capture the culprit undercover. It was revealed that the Onion had kidnapped Mrs. Rich, but the villain decides to cancel the abduction and wants to go straight. The villain's breath is so powerful, it creates a new type of fuel.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Pa Plump notices some rotten leaves clogging up the water spout, but Lotta blows through the bottom of the spout and does successfully unclog it, but not without expelling the rotten leaves into Pa's face.
- Dollar Comes Through! · 5 pages
Richie assigns Dollar to guard the house while his family and the mansion staff are away. Richie directs him to a machine that serves his meals and even has a television screen. But at night, when the phone rings, he learns of a possible robbery. When the crooks successfully enter, Dollar foils the attempted robbery by using the machine to spew water on the crooks, which make them go away.
- Untitled · 1 pages
A snobby boy who moved in to the neighborhood meets Richie, and claims he met a boy named Richie before. When the snobby boy introduces himself, Richie introduces himself in return, but the snobby boy believes Richie Rich is an impostor and will never be friends with Richie Rich.
- Untitled · 1 pages
An earthquake machine broke down, and Lotta has an idea on how to create a shaking effect for a house. With the help of a piece of ice slipped through the back of her collar, she shivers and creates a quake effect inside the house.
- Master of Meanness · 5 pages
Reggie wants to buy an extremely scary prank from a wizard, but after he gets victimized upon demonstration, Reggie is the one who gets scared.
- The Fifth Dimension, Part 1 · 5 pages
At the Utah Salt Flats, Richie and his father try out a special car that would break the speed record - but instead the vehicle rapidly travels back in time to the prehistoric era, and get threatened by dinosaurs and cavemen.
- The Fifth Dimension Part 2: A Search and Rescue Operation · 5 pages
Richie and his father are tied up on the trunk of a tree by cavemen, and are in danger of being attacked by dinosaurs. Richie uses spectacles like a magnifying glass to burn the rope fibers so they could be released. The father and son head to the car so they could escape from harm and head back to the Utah Salt Flats in the mid-1970s A.D.
- Too Hot to Handle · 5 pages
Richie buys a bag to carry his allowance to the bank, but the bag has handles that heats up and is apparently designed to cause Richie to release the bag which falls into a crook's hands - but the crook's tactic fails in the end.
- Bring the Moon Down! · 5 pages
After Richie shows Gloria a movie (in which his name was listed everywhere in the opening credits) where he vows to bring the moon down to Earth, she decides to produce a sequel where the moon is to be saved and put back in its proper place in outer space.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot's uncle tests out a rocket which would travel to the moon in just four minutes, stay on the moon for five minutes, then return. Dot wonders if anyone lives on the moon, and if Werner knew, he'd go to the moon himself. When the rocket returns backward, the two discover a rude message ("WATCH WHERE YOU'RE AIMING, STUPID!") written on the rocket, which surprised Werner as if there really may be life on the moon.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After Richie is exhausted from carrying bags of money to a vault, he decides to go to a general store to buy something that would help make his work easier and build his stamina. Although Richie looked tired, the merchant suggests weightlifting equipment.
- Hurricane Trapped, Part 1 · 5 pages
Mr. Rich tries out a special vacuum that sucks away hurricane activity. But Mr. Rich's aircraft gets hijacked after the bad guys learn about this hurricane trapper.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Lotta's breathing exercises come to good use when it comes to defeating a pair of bullies.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie, dressed like a poor person, visits a carnival where he has his fortune told. The gypsy predicts he will be very rich - so rich, that Richie would have to pay five dollars instead of fifty cents. Richie leaves a large denomination banknote, and tells the gypsy to keep the change because Richie doesn't have any small denominations.
- Hurricane Trapped, Part 2: It was a Terrible Blow · 5 pages
Hijackers order Mr. Rich to release the captured hurricane to cause havoc to the island of Aguapura. Regardless, Richie manages to foil the bad guys' tactics.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After a boy Bobbie is babysitting finished watching a TV western, Bobbie wants to watch her program. But the TV changes to the boy's favorite show, and Bobbie wonders why. It turns out the boy was using a remote control.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot wonders if her pet dog missed her while she was away. Dot paints dots on the dog's bone, but the dog is frightened, thinking there are bugs on the bone which the dog washes off with water, and Dot believes that her dog no longer loves her.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After Gloria realizes she is unable to store her toys due to her toy boxes reaching capacity, she learns that Richie has the same problem too - but Richie chooses to keep his favorite toys, and storing the excess in a gigantic toy chest and the excess is placed inside via cranes.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Lotta tries out a weight reducing machine, but she ends up destroying it instead.
- A Hard Day at the Office · 5 pages
Richie takes over as executive for Rich Enterprises for a day, after his father had so many hard days in the office.
- Untitled · 2 pages
Richie needs a shirt made of rags for a special party which is Gloria's idea. After Richie tries on the shabby shirt, he goes to stores hoping to buy cheap jewelry, candy and flowers for Gloria, then go to a restaurant - only to be given luxury items and treated like a wealthy person. Unbeknownst to Richie, the staff who worked at these outlets did find out about Richie's wealth because information on Rich Enterprises and his $100,000 weekly allowance was shown on the back of his shabby shirt.
- Please Bring Something Simple · Richie's Girl Friend Gloria · 5 pages
Gloria keeps a diary full of stories about Richie giving her giant treats.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie is impressed at Cadbury addressing everybody who arrives to the door. But when a salesman trips up into the front doorway after Cadbury opens the door, he utters "Whoops!", and Cadbury mentioned "Mr. Whoops Tripped!", much to the surprise of the salesman and Mr. Rich.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Scientists have invented a new wallet that has an unusual feature, where a pickpocket would be sorry if he stole a wallet from a person's pocket. Mr. Rich demonstrates by placing the wallet inside his pocket, and asks Richie to steal it. Richie doesn't notice a thing, and he doesn't know that everybody knows he's a pickpocket because the words "I'm a pickpocket" are written on the back of his jacket.
Characters
Reprinted in
Richie Rich Vacation Digest '93 Magazine (1993)