Archie
#162
(March 1966)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1966-01-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (uncredited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! I'm in with the "in crowd"!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Keywords
- classrooms; music; radios; student desks
Fleet Foot
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Veronica sets up a race between Archie and Reggie, with the winner getting a "big surprise" from her. But Jughead and Betty slow Archie down and he loses the race.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #182 (February 1971) - in Life with Archie (Bantam Books, 1973 series) #H7450 (March 1973)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #26 (May 1978)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #3 (January 1994)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #247 (February 2014)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics-Palooza (Archie, 2014 series) ([February] 2014)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #315 (January 2021)
-
It Figures
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's dad [Hap Holliday]
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx's dad tries to do a figure "8" on the frozen pond. After he falls, she suggests he start with a figure "1".
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #182 (February 1971)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Pin-Up / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, er..Archie, I forgot to mention the doorbell has been discon…er - out of order…
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie is frozen waiting for the Lodges to answer their door during a blizzard.
Strong Contender
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie uses some junk to convince Reggie that he's got incredible strength and a short temper. Rather than get on his bad side, Reggie offers Archie some tickets to a concert he and Veronica had planned on going to, just as Archie planned.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #29 (April 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
The band the kids are going to see is the Scarabs on the Ned Sullenpan show. This is a parody of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Dance Crazy
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie finds he can't stop dancing after he and Veronica leave a dance hall.
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #32 (1978)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #159 (May 2005)
- in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #4 ([August] 2014)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #268 (June 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 2 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
Text article about Pureheart the Powerful and a letter by Christine Morris.
Stamp of Approval
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie hightails it out of the Lodge home when Betty calls and says she's found a rare stamp. Annoyed, Veronica does the same thing after Archie gets to Betty's house.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hey! I'm in with the "in crowd"!"]
Archie -
1.
Fleet Foot
Archie -
2.
It Figures
Li'l Jinx -
3.
["Oh, er..Archie, I forgot to mention the doorbell has been discon…er - out of order…"]
Archie's Pin-Up -
4.
Strong Contender
Archie -
5.
Dance Crazy
Archie -
6.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
7.
Stamp of Approval
Archie
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