(February 1974)
Archie,
1972 Series
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct. & Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
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Archie Series [circular]
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Tiger By the Tail
Archie at Riverdale / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; humor; drama
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Coach Kleats
Nothing But the Best
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor; drama
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Veronica announces that her father has decided it's time for her to leave Riverdale High and go to a private school, where she can learn to associate with people in her own social circle. Archie manages to talk Mr. Lodge out of it by reminding him of his own lower-class origins.
- Reprints
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in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #36 (January 1980) - in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #146 (March 1997)
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Indexer Notes
The first line of the story ("Well, I'm happy that we didn't lose Mr. Weatherbee") is a reference to a story from the previous issue ("The Resistance Movement").
Tiger By the Tail
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor; drama
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Just before a big game, Central High kidnaps the Riverdale mascot, Hot Dog, and threatens to sell him into servitude unless Big Moose is kept out of the game. Archie suggests benching Moose -- and putting Hot Dog's psychotically enraged owner, Jughead, in the game instead.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #26 (January 1987)
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The Account
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor; drama
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica learns that Archie has his own college savings account that he's been putting money into for years, and that it now totals almost two thousand dollars. When she asks him to use some of that money to take her out, he refuses, saying he will sacrifice anything - even her - rather than touch his college account.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #7 (June 1988)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #60 (August 2016)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #2 (2019)
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Still Water
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- When a smelly old swamp is sold to a land developer who wants to put up a shopping center, Archie objects, arguing that they ought to pitch in and clean the swamp up instead of paving it over.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #15 (August 1980)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #264 (July 2010)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Hoopla (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #68 (July 2017)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
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- Keywords
- ecology; pollution
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Tiger By the Tail
Archie at Riverdale -
1.
Nothing But the Best
Archie at Riverdale -
2.
A Spray Way
Li'l Jinx -
3.
Tiger By the Tail
Archie at Riverdale -
4.
The Account
Archie at Riverdale -
5.
Still Water
Archie at Riverdale
This issue was modified by, among others
- Joey Beretta
- Katy Hayhurst
- Thomas Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Jaime Weinman
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