(January 1965)
Archie,
1954 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD; 0.35 CAD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Six times yearly: January, August, September, December, and semi-monthly in June
- On-sale Date
- 1964-10-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
Canadian price is from the indicia. On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Me, Santa Claus? Gosh! Whatever gave you the idea that I'd make a good Santa?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #88
Santa Mantle
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There he goes! This is it! He's on his way to buy Veronica's Christmas gift!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Reggie is determined to buy Veronica a more expensive version of everything Archie gets for her.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #167 (January 1970) - in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #16 (February 1976), #52 (February 1982)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #17 (February 1990)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #53 (December 2015)
- in The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series) (2020)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Indexer Notes
Color credits from The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).
Christmas Fashions For Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica / illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- fashion; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- The girls model winter fashions.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #16 (February 1976)
-
Exchange Student
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Archie buys Veronica a bottle of perfume for Christmas, but accidentally gets it spilled all over him before he can give it to her. When Veronica smells him, she thinks he's been with some other girl.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #167 (January 1970)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #22 (February 1977), #52 (February 1982)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Gift Wrapped!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx wraps gifts.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #167 (January 1970)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #6 (January 1975)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #70 (February 1985)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #11 (February 1989)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Mr. Weatherbee's Dilemma
Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie's screw-ups almost ruin Christmas for Mr. Weatherbee and have him saying "Bah, humbug," until he gets a special gift from his students.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica's Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're spending all your money on my Christmas presents...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty gets revenge on Archie for only buying presents for Veronica.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #32 (June 1965)
-
Man's Best Friend
Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Jughead tells Archie that he's planning to buy a transistor radio for himself, to make sure he'll get what he wants for Christmas. Archie decides to buy the same thing for himself, but everyone else winds up buying him the same thing.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #167 (January 1970)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #6 (January 1975)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #52 (February 1982)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #11 (February 1989)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
letters from: Peggy Domengeaux, Colette Kennett, June Miller;
page also includes membership application for the Archie Club
Just Be Claus
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Say, Moose! Big Moose! We want to talk to you!
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Coach Kleats; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Thanks to one too many hits in the head during football practice, Moose is suffering from intermittent memory loss. When Moose temporarily forgets who Midge is, Reggie tries to make time with her while Moose is busy playing Santa Claus .
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #167 (January 1970)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #28 (February 1978), #52 (February 1982)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #11 (February 1989)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #53 (December 2015)
- in The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series) (2020)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
Indexer Notes
Color credits from The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).
[no title indexed]
Betty Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Betty, please!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa won't give Betty Archie for Christmas.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #32 (June 1965)
- in Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (Archie, 1997 series) #9 (December 2004)
- in Archie Comics Super Special (Archie, 2012 series) #1 (December 2012)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #279 (February 2020)
- in Archie 80 Years of Christmas (Archie, 2021 series) (2021)
- in B&V Friends Forever [Betty and Veronica Friends Forever] (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (18) - Christmas Party (January 2023)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
Well Suited
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie asks Mr. Lodge to play Santa Claus.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
[no title indexed]
Christmas Pin-Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, Big Ethel!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Ethel has her own theories about why Veronica is raising more money for the charity drive than she is.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #32 (June 1965), #167 (January 1970)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #58 (February 1983)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #11 (February 1989)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
[no title indexed]
Veronica Pin Up Page / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, stop!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie's overdoing the mistletoe bit.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #32 (June 1965)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Spell of Spells
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Jingles
- Synopsis
- After being humiliated by Jingles, Reggie takes up black magic and starts casting spells on the pudgy brownie. Archie has to work a little magic of his own to stop Reggie from destroying Jingles.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #28 (February 1978)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #17 (February 1990)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Me, Santa Claus? Gosh! Whatever gave you the idea that I'd make a good Santa?"]
Archie -
1.
Santa Mantle
Archie -
2.
Christmas Fashions For Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica -
3.
Exchange Student
Archie -
4.
Gift Wrapped!
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Mr. Weatherbee's Dilemma
Archie -
6.
["You're spending all your money on my Christmas presents..."]
Betty and Veronica's Pin Up -
7.
Man's Best Friend
Jughead -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
Just Be Claus
Archie -
10.
["Betty, please!"]
Betty Pin Up -
11.
Well Suited
Archie -
12.
["Gosh, Big Ethel!"]
Christmas Pin-Up -
13.
["Archie, stop!"]
Veronica Pin Up Page -
14.
Spell of Spells
Archie
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- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Kirk House
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
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