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Little Reggie Mantle
209 appearances · Golden Age · 1956–2025 · 7 key issues
Who is Little Reggie Mantle?
Few characters capture the mischievous spirit of childhood rivalry quite like Little Reggie Mantle, the pint-sized schemer who's been stirring up trouble in Riverdale since his 1956 debut in Little Archie #1, brought to life by Harry Shorten and Bob Bolling. A Golden Age original, he's spent nearly seven decades keeping readers grinning across beloved digest staples like Little Archie and Archie's Double Digest Magazine, sharing panels with Little Jughead Jones, Little Betty Cooper, Little Veronica Lodge, and the gang. With 209 catalog appearances and seven key issues to his name, this junior-sized schemer has proven that big personalities come in small packages — and that some rivalries are worth nurturing from the very beginning.
Little Archie
#1
#1
★ First appearance
Little Archie #1
Trivia
- Bob Bolling has written more of Little Reggie Mantle's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 43 issues.
Appearances (most recent 150 of 209)
Little Archie (1956)
Archie Comics (1942)
Pep Comics (1940)
Wilbur Comics (1944)
Little Ambrose (1958)
Little Archie Giant Comics (1957)
Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974)
Jokebook Comics Digest Annual (1977)
Archie at Riverdale High (1972)
Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (1977)
The Best of Archie (1980)
Archie Annual Digest (1975)
Archie and Big Ethel (1982)
Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (1982)
Everything's Archie (1969)
Betty (1992)
Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (1997)