(September 1974)
Archie,
1972 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October and December.
- On-sale Date
- 1974-07-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [vertical]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Pocket Checklist page of Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #108, July 1974.
The Center Ring
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, guys! The new youth center looks great!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie, Betty and Jughead set up a youth center but a town councilman tries to take the credit.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #48 (June 1981) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #29 (July 1987)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #2 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Listed on cover.
Alphabet Soup
Teach In / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Letters, letters, letters, letters! Letters of the alphabet! Not all of them! Just a few! But there's a story and a history behind each letter that we use!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- A very interesting history behind each of the six letters in Archie's name. It starts with the Egyptian hieroglyph, progresses to the versions used in the Sinai, then the Phonetician versions, the Greek versions and finally the Roman versions.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #48 (June 1981)
-
By the See
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Jinx! It's nice of your father to take all of us to the beach!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx Holliday; Greg; Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Greg borrows Charley's swim trunks and they wash up to the beach without Greg.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #36 (September 1981)
-
Home Town
Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's my kind of town, Riverdale is...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie's Riverdale pride gets him in trouble with some guys from Central City while at the beach.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #49 (August 1981)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #36 (September 1988)
- in Archie Americana Series (Archie, 1991 series) #10 - Best of the Seventies Book 2 (2010)
-
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Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Center Ring
Archie -
1.
The Center Ring
Archie -
2.
["Meet Snoopy my new pencil pal!"]
Kenner Snoopy Pencil Sharpener -
3.
Alphabet Soup
Teach In -
4.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
5.
By the See
Li'l Jinx -
6.
Home Town
Archie
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- John
- Steve Coates
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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