Dates
- Cover date
- October 1982
- On sale
- August 5, 1982
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Canadian price edition1.25 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.25 CAD.
Barcode 0716585196209 · shared with another edition
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Stories
- Untitled · 1 pages
Gloria discovers that almost everything on the Rich estate involves money—even what looks like a hill in the distance.
- Richie Rich and Uncle Hyder · 5 pages
Uncle Hyder offers Richie and Reggie his twenty five million dollar fortune to the first one to find it hidden somewhere in his mansion.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Reggie's plan to test Cadbury's promptness backfires.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie, Freckles and Pee Wee discover their families have something in common—both families hide spare money in old sugar bowls.
- A Fortune Found · 5 pages
Richie and his friends explore the mysteries of Uncle Hyder's scary mansion as they and Reggie try to find the hidden fortune.
- You Can't Catch Me! · 5 pages
Richie runs away from Reggie's mean pranks and takes shelter in an impregnable robotic playhouse.
- The Party · 5 pages
Richie invites Gloria to a party, but she seems unenthusiastic about "another party." Riche appears at Gloria's house pursued by a sinister man in black and an extended chase ensues, only for it to be revealed that it is, in fact, Cadbury in disguise, and that this is a "different sort of party!"
- Untitled · 1 pages
Richie reads a book on magic tricks. Later, while walking on the street one boy whispers to another than Richie is so rich that money comes out of his ears. Richie decides to a magic trick, and pulls hundred dollar bills out of his ears, nonplussing the boys who think Richie is just showing off.
- Dr. N-R-Gee Returns, Part 1 · 5 pages
Dr. N-R-Gee's submarine sinks Richie's cruise ship, leaving Richie floating in a life raft in the ocean.
- A World of Slaves · 5 pages
Dr. N-R-Gee plans to enslave the world with his "zero-energy" ray.
- The House Fixers · 5 pages
Grouchy Mr. and Mrs. Slarber plan to extort money from Richie by asking Peewee and Freckles and Richie to house-set their ramshackle home and then suing for any damage. When a simple rubber ball collapses the house, Richie has his dad deploy a house-fixing machine, which makes it better than new. Forced to pay for the house-sitting, Slarber complains about damaged grass, and Richie offers experimental seeds: the world's fastest growing plants, or grass seeds. Slarber seizes the fast-growing plants and dismisses the children, only to discover that the plants are for Hollywood monster movies.
- Super-Secret Toys · 5 pages
Two crooks working for a rival manufacturer steal the million-dollar prototype toys Richie's father's company has developed.
- Glorious Gloria · 5 pages
Richie torments the crooks using a master control for the stolen toys, then captures the crooks using what is revealed to be a robot double of Gloria.
- Heat Waif · Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers · 5 pages
During a heat wave, Richie invites Jackie to Hotel Frigid on Thin, Nice Island. Jack arrives to the airport in a parka, only to discover that the island is an even warmer tropical paradise. Arriving back in Richeville in a bathing suit, Jackie is chilled by the worst cold snap to hit the city in years.
- Cheeps · Jackie Jokers TV Special · 5 pages
In a CHiPs parody, Punchy (Jackie) and Jonk (Richie) are moved from a squad car to motorcycles. Initially enthusiastic, they encounter assorted problems and return to the precinct to quit.
- Mr. Versatile · Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers · 5 pages
Jackie takes up playing the guitar in order to be a versatile performer, only to turn out to be terrible despite lessons. He attempts to trade it in on "a book on show business greats who never played a musical instrument."
- Alert Butling · 5 pages
Cadbury recounts a story to Richie about a previous employer, Sir Ruddy Blighter, "sportsman and upper class vagrant", who Cadbury had to rescue from falling rocks, bears, and hidden crevasses, only to be accused to taking a nap when he's knocked unconscious.
- Uncle Bloney · 5 pages
Nobody believes the tall tales that Dot's Uncle Bloney tells (football touchdowns, foiled bank robberies, a mugging, etc.) As they are walking in the park, Dot and her Uncle are confronted by a drill-nosed ship emerging from the ground, from which emerges a subterranean man who orders them to board the ship, because their leader will love Uncle Bloney's polka dotted tie. Dot suggests simply taking the tie, and Dot and her uncle exit the ship before it departs. When Dot then tells Lotta the story, Lotta declares that "My gosh! Fibbing is catching!"
- Untitled · 1 pages
Little Lotta ends up making repeated trips to the grocery store for her mother, with it finally revealed that the store is offering free cookies.
- The Folks Next Door · 5 pages
Lotta's new neighbors are planning to rob the town's bank, but after she repeatedly sneaks into their house to surprise them, they decide to go straight.
- Bumps and Lumps · 5 pages
Jackie attempts to ingratiate himself with "Nino De Lawrentes", the world-famous motion pictures producer-director by arranging to repeatedly bump into him around town, prompting De Lawrentes to hire Jackie to be beaten up in a Western film for bumping into someone.
- On the Ball · 5 pages
After breaking a store window while playing baseball with Peewee and Freckles, Richie invites them to his house where the play on various fields, accidentially striking oil, digging up gold, and tripping over Richie's allowance in a giant money bag, before finally resorting to renting the Honeyville Hornets stadium for a week.
- Wild About the Wilderness · 5 pages
Feigning a broken leg to avoid coming with them, Reggie secretly follows Richie and Gloria on their hike in the woods and tries to scare them with assorted gadgets, only to have the tables turned on him and run away screaming.