Archie
#240
(December 1974)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, August, Sept., Nov., and Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1974-10-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [vertical]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1976 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, what is about to become extinct?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy
- Reprints
- Keywords
- classrooms; economics; extinction; newspapers; student desks
in Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #49
Just Travel Along
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie sees Betty leave a travel agency with a plane ticket to Baghdad, and imagines ghastly scenarios for why she's leaving the country. Then she passes the ticket to Jughead, and Archie imagines what will happen to him in exotic lands. Then Jughead gives the ticket to Veronica...
- Reprints
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #29 (July 1980) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #36 (September 1988)
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- Keywords
- Baghdad; belly dancer; French Foreign Legion; harem
Indexer Notes
Starting with this story, Harry Lucey replaces Betty's ponytail with a more typically '70s hairstyle. He would use this look for Betty in most of his stories until his retirement in 1976, though the other Archie artists stuck with the ponytail.
Window Pain!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Rights and Wrongs
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica go with Archie to the carnival, where Veronica thinks he's acting like a chauvinist.
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #35 (1979)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #45 (December 1999)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #251 (July 2014)
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The Brush Off
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Jughead and Reggie annoy Archie while he's painting the house.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #12 (November 1979)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #29 (September 2013)
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Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #29, inks are credited to Harry Lucey.
The Protectors
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- After Archie declares that he's going to do something he never did before, his friends think he's challenged Moose to a fight.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Archie, what is about to become extinct?"]
Archie -
1.
Just Travel Along
Archie -
2.
Window Pain!
Li'l Jinx -
3.
Rights and Wrongs
Archie -
4.
The Brush Off
Archie -
5.
The Protectors
Archie
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- Steve Coates
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