Archie's Madhouse
#22
[15¢]
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- ?
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater (uncredited)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #22.
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[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you seen the new TV show featuring skin-diving witches?
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch; Chester Square; Lester Cool; The Pink Martian
- Keywords
- hot foot; undersea
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Two cartoons.
Presenting Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch
Sabrina / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Sabrina; Salem; Della; Archie Andrews (cameo); Betty Cooper (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Meet Sabrina, a sexy teen witch who lives a typical teen-age life -- except that her job is to hex her fellow teens. She introduces us to the rules of witchery: witches can't cry, can't sink when they're in the water, and if they ever fall in love, they lose their powers.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66) - in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
- in The Best of Archie's Madhouse (IDW, 2011 series) (July 2011)
- in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #[1] (August 2011)
- in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (IDW, 2010 series) #4 (October 2012)
- in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Archie, 2014 series) #1 (December 2014)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #260 (May 2015)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Blow-Out (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
- in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #3 (December 2016)
- in Sabrina the Teenage Witch Complete Collection (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - 1962-1972 ([2017])
- in Archie's Big Book (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Magic, Music & Mischief (August 2017)
- in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Occult Edition (Archie, 2019 series) (2019)
- in Sabrina: 60 Magical Stories (Archie, 2022 series) (2022)
- in Sabrina Annual Spectacular (Archie, 2023 series) #1 (October 2023)
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Sabrina, her cat Salem, and Della the Head Witch.
Much of this early version of Sabrina appears to be based on the play "Bell, Book and Candle" and the film version, starring Kim Novak. The rule about witches losing their powers if they fall in love and the inability of witches to cry (both of which were dropped in subsequent versions of Sabrina) were used in "Bell, Book and Candle," and Sabrina's cat Salem is similar to Pyewacket, the witch's familiar in "Bell, Book and Candle."
In the COMICS v10 #5 G. Gladir states that Sabrina was named after a woman he remembered from his teens who he later found out was actually named Sabra not Sabrina. He also states that he wrote all Sabrina and Hilda stories until Sabrina went to Saturday morning animation in 1969.
Name Game
Les n' Ches / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Chester Square; Lester Cool
- Synopsis
- Chester can't get in a fancy restaurant, but Lester can.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
-
Big Rig
Les Cool and Ches Square / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Lester Cool; Chester Square
- Synopsis
- Les goes into a haunted house full of mouse traps.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
-
Scare Your Fellow Monsters
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Starchie [Archie Andrews] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- An advertisement for methods that monsters can use to scare each other.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66) [Only the first page is reprinted]
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975) [Only the first page is reprinted]
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
-
A Funny Thing About Monsters...
text article / 1 page
- Characters
- Frankenstein's Monster
- Synopsis
- Article about the definition of monsters, ranging from dinosaurs to Frankenstein's monster.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #141 (September 1966)
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #46 (September 1981)
-
Indexer Notes
Text with 1/3 page illustration.
The Romances of Marcia the Mermaid
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Marcia Mermaid; Mark the Shark; Father Neptune; Max the Lifeguard; Scuba Dooba
- Synopsis
- The tale of Marcia, a mermaid who constantly falls in love with human teenage boys.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #4 (September 2005)
- in The Best of Archie's Madhouse (IDW, 2011 series) (July 2011)
-
The Act
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Synopsis
- A journalist is sent to interview a ventriloquist.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975)
-
Your Money Buys More When You Buy Archie Giant Series Magazines
Archie Giant Series Magazines / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Hexy Pin-Ups
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Hilda; Ava
- Synopsis
- Hilda and Ava, the witches, fight each other by proxy.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #197 (December 2004)
-
Bombs Away
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- The Pink Martian (host)
- Synopsis
- Two aliens encounter a hideous weapon on earth.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
-
Animals From Outer Space
comic story / 2 pages
- Characters
- The Pink Martian (host)
- Synopsis
- Hybrid animals from other planets.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #2 (1976-77)
-
Space Sports
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Synopsis
- Aliens try to go to a sci-fi movie.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #2 (1976-77)
-
Go Modern Young Man
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Synopsis
- A witch doctor's son comes back to Africa after studying in America.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #12 (1974-1975)
-
Snowboy
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch (host); Art Tick; Abe Ominable; Dagmar
- Synopsis
- A living snowman gets the cold shoulder from all the other teens until he falls in love with a warm-blooded girl.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #3 (1965-66)
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #1 (1975-76)
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #10 (June 2006)
- in The Best of Archie's Madhouse (IDW, 2011 series) (July 2011)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["Have you seen the new TV show featuring skin-diving witches?"]
-
2.
Presenting Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch
Sabrina -
3.
Name Game
Les n' Ches -
4.
Big Rig
Les Cool and Ches Square -
5.
Scare Your Fellow Monsters
-
6.
A Funny Thing About Monsters...
-
7.
Dig This Crazy Offer!
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals -
8.
The Romances of Marcia the Mermaid
-
9.
The Act
-
10.
Your Money Buys More When You Buy Archie Giant Series Magazines
Archie Giant Series Magazines -
11.
Hexy Pin-Ups
-
12.
Bombs Away
-
13.
Animals From Outer Space
-
14.
Space Sports
-
15.
Go Modern Young Man
-
16.
Snowboy
-
17.
Happy Endings
-
18.
Wanted!
The World of Jughead
This issue was modified by
- William Alexander
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Mike Nielsen
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