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Issue: The Adventures of Little Archie #20
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/27/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Goldwater
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Title Pages Job Number Notes
Little Archie and the Sea-Going Dinosaur
Illustration on Cover, Front
1    
Plesiosaur
Story on Interior Page(s)
13   The premise of this story is similar to (and possibly inspired by) the Ray Bradbury short story "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (aka "The Fog Horn") and its 1953 movie adaptation.

Bolling usually did his own lettering and much of the lettering appears to be his, but some of the punctuation looks like it has been re-lettered in a more typical Archie house style.
Baseball Dope!
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
The Strange Case of Crawford Crab
Story on Interior Page(s)
10    
The Mighty Midgets
Text Article on Interior Page(s)
1    
Buzzin' Cousin
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
By the Sea!
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
Just His Luck
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
The Long Walk
Story on Interior Page(s)
9   One of the great masterpieces of comics, this is also Bob Bolling's personal favorite among his stories (see http://www.comic-con.org/common/03upd2005_little_archie_50th.shtml).

"The Long Walk" was also selected as the best Little Archie story by Gary Brown in Comic Book Artist magazine (March 2004).

Page 6 of this story is one of the most famous Bolling creations: Little Archie and Betty's entire walk is portrayed in one huge panel, in the form of a map.
Nature's Notebook
Text Article on Interior Page(s)
1    
Ghost of a Chance
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
Dollar Deal
Story on Interior Page(s)
2   This story is told with no dialogue.
Law and Disorder
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   This is a remake of an earlier "big" Archie story where Archie and Reggie became hall monitors. It even carries over some of the earlier story's dialogue in simplified form ("The entire faculty will have to stay" becomes "all the teachers will have to stay too").
Boat Goat
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
On His Level
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
The Fearless Heart
Story on Interior Page(s)
9   Dexter Taylor's first adventure story.

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