Life with Archie
#157
(May 1975)
Archie,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [vertical]
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor)
The Crossing at Devil's Gorge
Life with Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie!!! The bridge is collapsing!!!
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
-
in Archie (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) (1976)
-
The Crossing at Devil’s Gorge
Life with Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gollee! Was that ever a rain! The road back to town is flooded!
- Feature Logo
Life with Archie [skinny 'Life with']- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie makes a dangerous crossing on an old railroad bridge to help a lady and her sick dog.
- Reprints
-
in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #273 (December 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Listed on cover.
Credits taken from reprint in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #273.
Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1 page
- Feature Logo
Archie Club News- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hot Dog
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Pamela Pichowicz (Radisson, Wisc.) First prize - $6.00 and Tina Wentworth (Mount Tabor, New Jersey) Second prize - $4.00.
Includes membership application form for the Archie Club.
That Far Out Feeling Part One
Life with Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sure it seemed strange... stars out, not a cloud in the sky! Who's going to notice one, lone snowflake on a dark winter night? And, if you're invading an alien planet, it's not a bad method of entry!
- Feature Logo
- Life with Archie [skinny 'Life with']
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Supro
- Synopsis
- An alien comes to Riverdale from the planet Astromid in an attempt to enslave the world.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #224 (January 2012), #276 (March 2017)
- in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #5 (December 2019)
-
- Keywords
- alien invasion
Indexer Notes
Part one of a two-part story, continued in this issue.
That Far Out Feeling Part Two
Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Two weeks have gone by and the insidious influence of the space visitor has taken its toll! From county, to state, to nation, to world... Astromidian brainwash has made Planet Earth ripe for plucking!
- Feature Logo
- Life with Archie [skinny 'Life with']
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Supro
- Synopsis
- Archie unwittingly stops Supro's attempt to take over the Earth.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #224 (January 2012), #276 (March 2017)
- in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #5 (December 2019)
-
- Keywords
- alien invasion
Indexer Notes
Part two of a two-part story, continued in this issue.
Tall Timber Tale
Life with Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gotta stop here, boys to lay in supplies! The larder was almost empty last time I left the cabin!
- Feature Logo
- Life with Archie [skinny 'Life with']
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Purdy
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge takes Archie and Jughead to his cabin in the woods, but they are chased by a bear.
- Reprints
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #25 (April 2017)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Crossing at Devil's Gorge
Life with Archie -
1.
["Earn famous name prizes or cash the easy Olympic way"]
Olympic Sales / Olympia Sales Cards -
2.
The Crossing at Devil’s Gorge
Life with Archie -
3.
["Second chance for high school dropouts to get a diploma"]
Wayne School Courses -
4.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
5.
["Karate - kung fu - judo - jiu jitsu - savate - aikido - tae-kwon-do"]
Universal Bodybuilding -
6.
["Enter the wonderful world of amazing live sea-monkeys"]
Sea-Monkeys -
7.
["Go stick crazy"]
Super Values Products -
8.
That Far Out Feeling Part One
Life with Archie -
9.
Good Deal
Archie; Hostess Cup Cakes -
10.
That Far Out Feeling Part Two
Life with Archie -
11.
["Dog tags"]
Canyon House -
12.
Tall Timber Tale
Life with Archie -
13.
["Save these valuable postage stamps now while they last!"]
Kenmore Stamps -
14.
["Make excellent extra cash... with no real 'selling'... just showing this sample which we give you... free!"]
Engravaplates Social Security Cards -
15.
["Who can resist a Betty & Veronica Spectacular? I can't, because everything they do is spectacular!"]
Archie Giant Series Magazine -
16.
["Now you can have six times the enjoyment or just check off your favorite Archie comic and have it mailed right to your home!"]
Archie Comics -
17.
["You can win a $5 a week allowance for a whole year!"]
Kellogg's Cereals -
18.
["Join now for super prizes and plenty of cash!"]
Junior Sales Club of America Cards -
19.
["Make money get prizes with fast selling American Seeds"]
American Seeds
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katy Hayhurst
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.