Dates
- Cover date
- September 1979
- On sale
- June 21, 1979
- Pages
- 132
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.
Barcode 0716585196203 · shared with another edition
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Stories
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie and his friends play in a huge pile of money.
- There's Always Room For Improvement · 5 pages
Mr. Rich demonstrates his new home security system and Gloria hires her uncle to put it to the test.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie practices throwing his voice.
- Untitled · 1 pages
One problem with the robot mailman Richie's dad's scientists developed is that it chases dogs.
- A Penny Saved · 5 pages
Richie visits his frugal uncle, who has some extremely odd ways of saving money.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After loading several large sacks of loose change in the trunk of the limousine, the car is somewhat overloaded in the rear.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Regina's friends mistake Cadbury for a wax figure.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Lotta starts a hobby collecting and eating watermelons.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Reggie tries to scare Freckles, but has the tables turned on him.
- The Sleepwalking Robbery Part 1 · 5 pages
Crooks are making the Riches and Cadbury sleepwalk and bring them money, jewels and other treasures.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Mr. Polka grows agitated because Dot says the stars remind her of dots.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie sneaks out of his piano lesson to play with his friends.
- The Sleepwalking Robbery Part 2 The Dream Masters · 5 pages
After two crooks use a device to put Mr. Rich and Cadbury to sleep, Richie gets the device and puts the criminals to sleep.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie demonstrates his new binoculars to Reggie.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Lotta goes to Jane's house to see her new dresses, and helps herself to everything in the refrigerator
- The Secret Prank · 5 pages
Richie and Gloria get Reggie to become obsessed with discovering their secret prank.
- Mechanized Mischief · 5 pages
Reggie and Richie mess up an area of the Rich estate during a prank battle, and Mr. Rich gets angry despite his movie producer stating that he wants to use the area for a movie he's making.
- Everybody Wants an English Butler · 5 pages
Cadbury and his butler's club are taken by aliens from the planet Bingbosh, who want them to butle for them. The butler do a horrible job and the aliens return them to Earth.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot enjoys the sound of water dripping through a leaky roof.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie releases the big fish he caught in order to let a friend with the $10 prize for catching the biggest fish.
- A Weighty Subject · 5 pages
Mayda spends a fortune on gym equipment to impress Richie, but is so focused on how much money it cost her that she offends Richie. When he leaves to go on a date with Gloria, Mayda has her butler donate all the gym equipment to the monkeys at the zoo.
- He Was Surly Early · 5 pages
Reggie's mother reminisces about how loud and surly he was as a child.
- Toy Boy · 5 pages
Richie donates all his toys to the town's children, but when they leave them scattered everywhere the citizens complain to the mayor. Richie buys them back, only to have the children buy more toys and leave them scattered around. Finally, Richie builds a huge indoor playground to store the toys and let the kids play in.
- Goldslinger · The Jackie Jokers Movie Special Presents · 5 pages
Jackie, as agent Double Oh-oh, thwarts the trenchcoat thief Goldslinger.
- Untitled · 1 pages
When two weightlifters bolt the weight to the floor in an effort to keep Lotta off the team, she lifts the weight with the floor and two weightlifters on it.
- Ready and Willing · 5 pages
Nurse Jenny has trouble determining who needs her help.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot takes a nap by the City Park and the police try to wake her up to send her home.
- The World of Dr. Meek! Part 1 · 5 pages
One of Mr. Rich's inventor's tries to trap Richie but they both end up traveling to the Enchanted Forest, where they meet Casper & Wendy. Dr. Meek steals Wendy's magic wand and broomstick and returns home with the aim of ruling the world.
- The World of Dr. Meek! Part 2: Who's Got the Button? · 5 pages
Wendy sends Richie back to his world to retrieve her wand and stop Dr. Meek, but he discovers his family is under the evil inventor's control. Casper arrives and tries to help Richie, but they discover that the magic happy buttons Wendy gave them are allowing Dr. Meek to control them. Casper manages to get rid of his button and asks Richie to lead him to Dr. Meek.
- The World of Dr. Meek! Part 3: Think · 5 pages
Casper discovers that Dr. Meek created "live" magic buttons and these took over control of the lab. The buttons are making more magic buttons that turn people into leaders or followers, thinkers or obeyers. He gives a "Think" button to Richie and takes Dr. Meek back to the Enchanted Forest. Wendy beats Meek with her broom, disenchanting him, and the three return to the real world to help Richie destroy the remaining magic buttons.
- What a D-Doll · 5 pages
Unknown to Gloria, the doll that Richie gave her is actually Casper.
- Untitled · 1 pages
When Dot's mother asks Dot to remove the polka dots from her dresser, she complies but puts dots on everything else in her room.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Bobbie glues Junior to the floor so he doesn't keep crawling off while she's trying to work on her scrap book.
- Job-Seeking Robot · 5 pages
During an interview with an employment agency, Irona tells the man stories of how she saved the Rich family. The person interviewing her believes she has a fertile imagination and suggests she pursue a career writing comic books.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Dot gives her father dotted garters for a birthday present.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Lotta wants to help her father move a truckload of books.
- A Valuable Workout · 5 pages
Richie gets a workout dealing with a money avalanche and a thief.
- Untitled · 1 pages
When Jerry's father won't let him use the spray gun to paint his bike, he uses he squirt gun.
- Untitled · 1 pages
When Richie's mom buys a new piano, he gives the crate to Freckles to use as a newsstand.
- Untitled · 1 pages
When Richie joins some kids who are fishing for change in the sewer, he pulls up a $1000 bill.
- Untitled · 1 pages
While hunting with her dad, Dot puts her cap and jacket on fawn so she won't be shot.
- The Magnetic Menace part 1 · 5 pages
The Riches are threatened by a thief calling himself the Magnetic Master, who promises to extract every nail in their mansion unless they give him $10,000,000.
- Untitled · 1 pages
After declaring herself full, Lotta makes room for dessert.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Reggie and Richie have a dispute over property lines.
- The Magnetic Menace part 2: The Big Attraction · 5 pages
With the help of estate police, Richie destroys the giant magnet, apprehends the criminal and rescues his dad.