Little Archie #60
Little Archie #60 arrives at a pivotal cultural moment: 1970 was the same year CBS launched the Filmation animated Sabrina the Teenage Witch series, making Archie's witch-centered comics a hot property. As a giant-sized issue — part of the run spanning #54 through #84 that Archie published in that oversized format — it represents the series at its most expansive, with Dexter Taylor carrying the title solo and folding the Sabrina cast (Aunts Hilda and Zelda, Salem) into the elementary-school universe of Riverdale. The issue lands in the immediate neighborhood of Little Archie #61, which multiple collector sources identify as the first standalone Little Sabrina story in the series, making #60 a direct prelude to that landmark debut.
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By 1970, Dexter Taylor had been the primary writer and artist on Little Archie for roughly five years, having taken over from series creator Bob Bolling starting with issue #36 in Fall 1965. Taylor continued in the storytelling tradition Bolling had established — mixing gentle humor, adventure, and emotional sincerity for a young audience — while also expanding the cast to include kid versions of characters from across the Archie line. Heritage Auctions records confirm that Taylor's original story art for Little Archie #60 survives, including a five-page story and a four-page piece titled 'Stand By for Food,' offering a rare window into his working process on this specific issue.
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- Little Archie #60 was published in 1970 by Archie Comics, with Dexter Taylor serving as writer and artist — the role he had held since taking over from series creator Bob Bolling with issue #36 (Fall 1965).
- The issue falls within the giant-sized run of the title: the Grand Comics Database confirms that Little Archie issues #54 through #84 were all published in an oversized giant format.
- The full cast indexed for this issue includes Little Archie, Little Betty, Little Jughead, Little Reggie, Little Veronica, Little Sabrina, Little Salem, Aunt Hilda, Aunt Zelda, Miss Grundy, Mr. Weatherbee, Coach Kleats, and Miss Beazly — the complete roster of the Riverdale Elementary and Spellman household characters.
- Little Sabrina's in-series billing in Little Archie comics was 'Little Sabrina: That Cute Little Witch,' an elementary-school-aged adaptation of the character created by George Gladir and artist Dan DeCarlo, who had first appeared as a teenager in Archie's Madhouse #22 (October 1962).
- Multiple collector sources (eBay listings, CBSI Comics key-issue guide) attribute the first dedicated Little Sabrina appearance in the Little Archie series to issue #61, published the same year — making #60 the immediately preceding issue.
- The 1970 publication date coincides with CBS's debut of the Filmation animated Sabrina the Teenage Witch Saturday-morning series, giving the Sabrina-featured Little Archie issues heightened reader attention at the newsstand.
- The Little Archie series ran from 1956 to 1983 for 180 issues and is regarded as the most successful alternate-universe spin-off in Archie Comics history; Bolling's earlier work on the title earned him the Inkpot Award in 2005 and the Bill Finger Award in 2022.