Richie Rich Digest Winners #14

When a planet-juggling alien race shows up on Earth’s doorstep, Richie Rich and his friends must team up with the eccentric Professor Squintmore to outwit a fleet of intergalactic collectors—led by a king, a queen, and a crew of bizarre alien officials—before the entire solar system gets packed into a cosmic storage unit.

In a tale of unexpected abundance, a woman captivated by diamond mines watches in disbelief as the mine owner reveals his entire stock is split between just two recipients: Mrs. Rich and the rest of the world. The sheer scale of the distribution leaves her both amazed and bewildered, as the usual rules of scarcity seem to vanish in the face of such generosity.

Richie Rich stumbles upon a strange gadget that turns anything it touches into a source of uncontrollable laughter. When a thief tries to steal it, Richie quickly flips the switch and sends the intruder into fits of giggles—then calls the cops to clean up the mess.

In "Sketching Trip," Richie and his friends set out on a nature drawing adventure with their art teacher, only to find their sketch pads filled with her instead—caught in a series of comical mishaps as the outing takes a delightfully unpredictable turn.

In "Get a Pee Wee," a sudden wave of fame hits when a woman photographs Pee Wee and turns him into a popular doll. The attention overwhelms him, so Richie steps in to help, buying up all the dolls and giving Pee Wee a disguise to escape the spotlight. But the next week, a new doll hits the market—one that looks just like the disguise.

Richie Rich wakes up to find the Rich mansion drifting through space—no, not in the clouds, but in the vast, star-strewn void—before landing on the strange, green-lit planet Zoog. With only his wits, a few odd gadgets, and a mysterious note from Professor Snerd, he’s suddenly the guest of a very unusual alien world.

When Earth’s atomic tests throw Zoog’s weather into chaos, its citizens—unused to shelter—faced with a crisis they’ve never known, turn to the only solution: the Rich mansion. Quarn, the President of Zoog, hatches a bold plan to relocate his people by commandeering the estate, setting off a series of misadventures that test both the limits of their new environment and the generosity of Richie Rich.

Richie Rich is uneasy when his mother brings a backpack full of jewelry on their mountain-climbing trip, but the gems unexpectedly come in handy when a crook and a pair of condors make trouble — and even a mountain goat gets in on the action.