Archie
#283
(August 1979)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.40 US
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-05-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000696508
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #169, June 1979.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll polish off the hubcaps, Betty!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Reprints
- Keywords
- automobiles; car washes; charity; International Childrens Appeal; picnic baskets
in Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #74
Right Now With the I.C.A.
Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Miss Beazly; Tommy Sloan
- Synopsis
- Archie makes a pitch for contributions to the International Children's Appeal, a charitable organization raising money to help children in accordance with the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child.
Indexer Notes
Shortly after this story was published, the I.C.A. was exposed as a fraudulent charity by a report on ABC's 20/20. Unknown to Archie Comics, the organization was actually a front for money laundering and other criminal activity.
Strangers in the Night
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie doesn't have a date for a big dance, so Jughead decides to take it upon himself to get his buddy a date by randomly asking the first girl he meets on the street.
Something Phoney
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Fred tries to make an important phone call, but Archie's friends keep tying up the line.
- Reprints
-
in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #39 (August 1985) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #55 (November 1991)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Arch! We broke our backs since daylight, digging these clams, and you want to bury them??
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow! This is the worst flood I’ve ever seen!
Easy Does It...
Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to help a little kid by getting a cat down from a tree.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #73 (August 1985)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I'll polish off the hubcaps, Betty!"]
Archie -
1.
Right Now With the I.C.A.
Archie -
2.
Strangers in the Night
Archie -
3.
Something Phoney
Archie -
4.
In My Opinion
Li’l Jinx -
5.
["Arch! We broke our backs since daylight, digging these clams, and you want to bury them??"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
6.
["Wow! This is the worst flood I’ve ever seen!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
7.
Easy Does It...
Archie
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