Archie #232
(February 1974)

Archie, 1959 Series
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Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, August, Sept., Nov., and Dec.
On-sale Date
1973-11-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Archie Comic Publications Inc.
Brand
Archie Series [circular]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Richard H. Goldwater (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1974 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Archie / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Dan DeCarlo
Inks
Rudy Lapick
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I want to be able to break bricks right away!
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Reprints
Keywords
karate; karate schools; telephones

Indexer Notes

Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #54

Temptation (Table of Contents: 1)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Harry Lucey
Inks
Chic Stone
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis
The Christmas season doesn't seem to change Reggie's usual rottenness, but Jughead argues that even Reggie can't resist the compulsion to be nice at Christmas time.
Reprints

Cleaning Up! (Table of Contents: 2)

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
Reprints

Snow Day (Table of Contents: 3)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Harry Lucey
Inks
Chic Stone
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Beazly; Dilton Doily; Moose Mason; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis
The regular characters fail to listen to the radio on a snowy day, and wind up trapped inside the school on a day when all the schools are closed.
Reprints

Shopper Comes a Cropper (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
George Gladir
Pencils
Harry Lucey
Inks
Chic Stone
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis
Archie once again double-books, promising to help Veronica and Betty with their Christmas shopping at the same time.
Reprints

The Giving Game (Table of Contents: 5)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Harry Lucey
Inks
Chic Stone
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate
Synopsis
Archie is angry at Reggie for buying him a cheap Christmas gift. Betty encourages him to pretend she's Reggie and take out his hostility on her.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from the reprint in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011 series) #316.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["I want to be able to break bricks right away!"]
    Archie
  2. 1. Temptation
    Archie
  3. 2. Cleaning Up!
    Li'l Jinx
  4. 3. Snow Day
    Archie
  5. 4. Shopper Comes a Cropper
    Archie
  6. 5. The Giving Game
    Archie
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Joey Beretta
  • Steve Coates
  • Merlin Haas
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jaime Weinman