Archie #116

(February 1961)

Hurry Up and Wait! (Table of Contents: 1)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Terry Szenics

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers

Synopsis

Archie tries to lay down the law with Veronica and insist that she be ready on time for their next date, but then he has to go to extremes to avoid being late himself.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #38 (January 1982)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #38 (January 1989)

Keywords

flat tire

Indexer Notes

Mr. Lodge's repeated line "Don't tell me, let me guess, you're waiting for a streetcar" is a reference to an old Vaudeville routine.

Skating Feat (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Chicago Roller Skates / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Muscle Man! (Table of Contents: 3)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse

Synopsis

Charley shows up Jinx by building a muscle-man snowman.

Keywords

snowman

Call of the Wild! (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis

Archie and Mr. Lodge go on a hunting trip, with all the comforts of home.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #57 (December 1982)

Keywords

camping; generator; hunting; shotguns; television

Good For Nothing! (Table of Contents: 5)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Sy Reit ?

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Terry Szenics

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee

Synopsis

The kids decide that the best way to deal with Miss Grundy is to make a special effort to be good, but she's driven crazy waiting for them to misbehave.

Keywords

detention; homework; paranoia

Nip and Buck! (Table of Contents: 6)

Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

Archie mistakenly pours rum sauce instead of water into his car's radiator.

Reprints

• from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #3 (1956)

Keywords

radiator; rum

Here They Are! (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Archie Giant Series / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Current Events (Table of Contents: 8)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Terry Szenics

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis

Mr. Lodge thinks he fixed an appliance, when all that happened was that Archie plugged it in.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #57 (December 1982)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #50 (January 1991)

Keywords

repairs; television; washing machine

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

First prize of $5.00 to Judy West (Jamestown, N.Y.) for article on the Statue of Liberty. Second prize of $3.00 to Virginia L. Oaks (San Diego, Calif.) for article on the lobster. Third prize of $2.00 to Suzette Wanat (Chicago, Ill.) for article on the Fox Terrier. Fourth prize of $1.00 to David Breen (Trumbell, Conn.) for article about ant-eaters. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Jeffrey Benson (Waterloo, Iowa) for three jokes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Bell Boys (Table of Contents: 11)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Terry Szenics

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis

Archie and Jughead remove their wet shoes before coming into the Lodge home, but because they're walking around in their socks, Mr. Lodge never knows when they're sneaking up on him.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #64 (February 1984)

Keywords

attic; bells; boots; Christmas; closet; presents; snow