Archie
#131
(September 1962)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year in February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1962-07-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, if only Dr. Kildare or Ben Casey could help me!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Keywords
- first aid; injuries; swimming; swimming pools; swimsuits; television
The Lazy Ones
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie does push-ups to try and obey President Kennedy's call for the youth of America to exercise more, but it turns out that the gang actually gets more exercise when they're just having fun.
- Keywords
- badminton; beach; dancing; pushups; record player; swimming
Indexer Notes
One of several stories in Archie comics that reference JFK's then-recent push for physical fitness.
A Jet Bet
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Jinx pretends to be a pony and Greg pretends to be a jet. The two have a race.
- Keywords
- imagination; race
Wayward Whirl
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie tries the hammer throw, but he's the one who gets thrown.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #156 (October 1968) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #18 (September 1985)
-
- Keywords
- hammer throw; track and field
The Avenger
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie makes up an elaborate scenario to argue that when he brought a baseball glove to a date with Veronica, it was actually for her own protection.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- baseball; baseball glove
Wanted
The World of Jughead / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
Indexer Notes
Promo for The World of Jughead #19, with mail-in coupon. Cover is depicted, along with original art mug shot of Forsythe P. (alias Jughead) Jones.
Start To Finish
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead and Betty discuss the fact that whenever Archie starts well, he finishes badly. Then Jughead points out to Betty that the reverse is also true.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #321 (August 2021)
-
- Keywords
- boxing; diving; hurdles; movie theater; swimming pool
Fun with the Popsicle Kids
Popsicle Kids; Popsicle / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Popsicle Kids
- Synopsis
- The kids show off the baseball glove and gold chain necklace that they received by sending in Popsicle wrappers.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Popsicle frozen treats.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to Mike Smith (Garden Grove, Calif.) for article on Tahiti. Second prize of $3.00 to Violet Cruz (New York, N.Y.) for article about dinosaurs. Third prize of $2.00 to Nattia Lo Scalzo (Raytown, Mo.) for article on the Fennec. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Diane Jeffries (Washington, D.C.) for article on nursing. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Ronnie Hall (Richmond, Va.) for two jokes.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
Prisoner of Love
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie dreams he's on a planet where robots are terrorized by gorgeous Amazon "monster" women. He's captured and taken to meet their Queen, who prepares to give Archie her kiss of death.
- Keywords
- aliens; dream; kissing; snare; spaceship
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Oh, if only Dr. Kildare or Ben Casey could help me!"]
Archie -
1.
The Lazy Ones
Archie -
2.
A Jet Bet
Li'l Jinx -
3.
Wayward Whirl
Archie -
4.
The Avenger
Archie -
5.
Wanted
The World of Jughead -
6.
Start To Finish
Archie -
7.
Fun with the Popsicle Kids
Popsicle Kids; Popsicle -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
10.
Prisoner of Love
Archie
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