Archie
#193
(August 1969)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year: In February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1969-06-03
- 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 1969 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Crowds are a drag! Let’s look for some privacy!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Reprints
- Keywords
- beach balls; beaches; sunglasses; surfboards; swimsuits
in 
The Big Hit
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Tony; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica brags about going to a ball with her date Tony and rubs it in that Archie and Betty can't come.
- Reprints
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #25 (November 1980) - in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #12 (April 1985)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #13 (June 1989)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (vignettes); Bob Montana ? (Archie images on a club press card and a club button)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee (all vignettes)
Indexer Notes
Letters from Patricia Tarmey, Alicia Davis, Susan Woods, Linda Woyt, Mary Hall, Margaret Matassa, and Gail Cohen
Stamp Out Archie
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Hiram Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- When Archie gets Veronica a stamp for a letter, he grabs a rare stamp valued at a $1000. The stamp was part of Mr. Lodge's collection and was sitting on his desk.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #225 (September 1974)
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #39 (1981-82)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #58 (June 2016)
-
- Keywords
- stamp collecting
Indexer Notes
The first and last line of this story, "What we have here is a failure to communicate," is a quote from the then-recent movie "Cool Hand Luke."
A Mouthful
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Greg gives L'il Jinx a dozen packs of bubblegum. Then, when she has several pieces in her mouth and can't talk or scream, he gives her the bad news about a radio he borrowed from her.
Who Is the Stranger in Town
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; the stranger [The Spoiler]
- Synopsis
- A stranger comes to Riverdale, but Archie and the gang refuse to let him introduce himself, as doing so would invalidate the story title.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #25 (November 1980)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #11 (July 1984)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Crowds are a drag! Let’s look for some privacy!"]
Archie -
1.
The Big Hit
Archie -
2.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
3.
Stamp Out Archie
Archie -
4.
A Mouthful
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Who Is the Stranger in Town
Archie
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- Gregg Whitmore
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