Archie
#146
(June 1964)
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
- 1964-05-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! Did I get soaked picking up this package for you! What's in it?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
- Keywords
- rain
in Indexer Notes
Cover idea updated (redrawn but with same dialogue) on the cover of Archie... Archie Andrews, Where are You Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #2 and Archie Comics Digest #55
The Prom
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mrs. Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Chief Johnson (the fire chief)
- Synopsis
- On their way to prom, Archie's car gets a flat tire. Reggie shows up and offers Veronica a ride, but she declines. Right after Reggie leaves, Chief Johnson shows up and offers the two a ride to prom in his new firetruck.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Americana Series (Archie, 1991 series) #8 - Best of the Sixties Book 2 (2008) - in Archie's Americana Series (IDW, 2011 series) #3 - Best of the '60s (February 2012)
- in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #2 (August 2012)
- in Archie's Favorite High School Comics (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Fight Delight
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and Veronica have been fighting a lot lately, so Veronica takes him to the Lodge's gym for a chat, which includes a boxing ring.
Indexer Notes
This appears on the same page as the next sequence.
Silence Is Not Golden
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- The kids are trying to be quiet at the Lodge home, and that's what's troubling Mr. Lodge.
Indexer Notes
This appears on the same page as the previous sequence.
Nix Pix
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father [Hap Holliday]
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx is bored with TV, and her dad suggests she go to the movies.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #4 (February 1974)
-
Mission Accomplished!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Mrs. Jones
- Synopsis
- Mrs. Andrews asks Archie to return something Mrs. Jones left at the Andrews' house earlier -- her purse! Now Archie has to return the purse without being seen by the gang.
- Reprints
- in Life with Archie (Bantam Books, 1973 series) #H7450 (March 1973)
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #27 (1975-1976)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #13 (November 1984) [Bottom portion of page one panels removed to make space for indicia]
- in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #1 (August 2011)
-
Tiger
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump; Big Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica convince Archie that he's like a tiger, a predatory beast. Midge witnesses him around Betty and Veronica and begs Big Moose to leave him alone, fearing the worst.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Plus Betty & Veronica & Reggie, Too (Archie, 1974 series) #1 (March 1974)
- in Archie Americana Series (Archie, 1991 series) #8 - Best of the Sixties Book 2 (2008)
- in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #1 (August 2011)
- in Archie's Americana Series (IDW, 2011 series) #3 - Best of the '60s (February 2012)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jamboree (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #245 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer, Inker and Letterer credits from the credits published in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #245.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.75 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Montana ? (Archie images on a club press card and a club button)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to Wesley Marx (Chicago, Ill.) for article on Chicago Vocational High School. Second prize of $3.00 to Helen Mitchell (Turner, Ore.) for article on the origin of the term "Indian giver." Third prize of $2.00 to Patricia Casby (Boston, Mass.) for article on her horse. Includes Archie Club membership form.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Script
- Louis H. Silberkleit (publisher)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1963. Average paid circulation for the previous 12 months was 471,166. Single issue nearest filing date was 603,275.
In the Stretch
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead help the girls pull taffy. But the taffy is too big, too hot and too sticky. Then Mr. Weatherbee gets tangled up in it.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #4 (February 1974)
- in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #1 (August 2011)
- in Archie's Favorite High School Comics (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Boy! Did I get soaked picking up this package for you! What's in it?"]
Archie -
1.
The Prom
Archie -
2.
["Isn't that your bicycle?"]
Bendix Corporation -
3.
Fight Delight
Archie -
4.
Silence Is Not Golden
Archie -
5.
Nix Pix
Li'l Jinx -
6.
Mission Accomplished!
Archie -
7.
["Here It Is! Your Archie Annual"]
Archie Annual -
8.
Tiger
Archie -
9.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
10.
[no title indexed]
-
11.
In the Stretch
Archie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Mark Coale
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Gregg Whitmore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.