Life with Archie
#27
(May 1964)
Archie,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Seven times a year in January, March, May, July, August, October, and November
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (credited) (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
Editor credits taken from Statement of Ownership.
[no title indexed]
Life with Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Relax, girls, patient X will be all right! Then we'll know who he is, and what this is all about!
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Cover based on a scene from the story inside. No credits, but art appears to be by White.
The Strange Case of Patient X
Life with Archie / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- George Gladir ? (sourced)
- Pencils
- Bob White (sourced)
- Inks
- Marty Epp (sourced)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (sourced)
- Letters
- Marty Epp (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The time: 3 a.m. - the place: Riverdale, U.S.A. Cloaked in its mantle of darkness, the city sleeps -
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; "Patient X"; man with the red mustache; Dr. Ben Lacey; Nurse Burke
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica become nurse's aides at the hospital, where one of the new patients is a comatose man known only as "Patient X." Betty notices a mysterious man with a red mustache peeking into "Patient X"'s room. When "Patient X" starts to come out of his coma, his only words are "Must protect Carezzo." Archie and the gang take it upon themselves to solve the mystery of who "Patient X" is, what he's trying to protect, and what the man with the red mustache has to do with all this.
- Reprints
-
in Where's Archie? (Bantam Books, 1974 series) #S6461 (March 1974) - in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jamboree (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #245 (December 2013)
- in Life with Archie (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer postulates the script is by Sy Reit from the style and by an in-joke in the story: a hospital P.A. announcer calls for "Dr. Reit" on p. 9. (On p. 7, the announcer calls for "Dr. White," referring to Bob White, the penciller.) Previous indexer credited inks to Bob White.
When reprinted in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #245, script is credited to Frank Doyle.
E-Motion Pictures
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Daddy! The whole gang is going.. Is going to the movies...
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Hap Holliday; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Jinx cajoles her father into giving her money for the movies.
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #47 (March 1991)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.67 pages
- Feature Logo
Archie Club News
Indexer Notes
Letters from Tylor Lubsen (South Plainfield, N.J.) First prize - $5.00, Abbe Fares (San Pedro, Calif.) Second prize - $3.00, Sandy Arnold (Peoria, Ill.) Third prize - $2.00.
Includes membership application form for the Archie Club.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Louis H. Silberkleit (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Average number of copies of each issue during preceding 12 months: 316,106.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Relax, girls, patient X will be all right! Then we'll know who he is, and what this is all about!"]
Life with Archie -
1.
["Brother, can you spare a dime 10ยข?"]
American Body Building Club -
2.
The Strange Case of Patient X
Life with Archie -
3.
["Isn't that your bicycle?"]
Bendix Bicycle Transmission -
4.
["Play your guitar in 7 days or your money back"]
Ed Sale Secret System -
5.
["America's most exciting war game"]
Task Force -
6.
["Spectacular is the only word for it"]
Archie Giant Series Magazine -
7.
["Reward $11,750 for this coin"]
Best Values Coins and Currency -
8.
E-Motion Pictures
Li'l Jinx -
9.
["Boys! Men! I'll help you master yubiwaza"]
Yubiwaza System -
10.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
["Bike bonanza of big buys"]
Honor House Bicycle Accessories -
13.
["Nationally famous prizes at no cost to you!"]
Junior Sales Club of America Cards -
14.
["Smoothest... cushioned ride on the Medalist"]
Chicago Roller Skates
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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