Archie Giant Series Magazine
#623
[Direct]
(October 1991)
Archie,
1954 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.20 CAD; 0.75 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ten times per year
- On-sale Date
- 1991-07-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Archie Annual Digest Magazine #59.
No barcode, has Archie salutes artist of the month Chic Stone instead.
This issue has variants:
No barcode, has Archie salutes artist of the month Chic Stone instead.
This issue has variants:
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Clean-Up Hitter
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (layouts); Dan Parent
- Inks
- Alison Flood
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Zerblis the alien; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica befriend an alien cleaning up the environment of Riverdale in preparation for the arrival of Queen Zelda from the planet Julius.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #59 (August 2001) - in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #144 (September 2006)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Hoopla (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #253 (July 2017)
- in Archie 80th Anniversary Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #3 (August 2021)
-
- Keywords
- alien; environmentalism
Indexer Notes
Three of the four chapters' pages are numbered as if they are stand alone stories. However chapter three's pages are numbered as if it is part of a single, book-length story.
Holidaze
Sabrina / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Hilda
- Synopsis
- Sabrina explains how witches view Fourth of July festivities.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #136 (September 1997)
-
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook / text article / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This month I'd like...
- Synopsis
- Editor Gorelick promotes the Archie Comics staff appearance at the 1991 San Diego Comic Con, as well as Archie Giant Series #622 (World of Archie) and #624 (Pep).
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty & Veronica / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My best friend...
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Betty and Veronica Spectacular
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Clean-Up Hitter
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Holidaze
Sabrina -
3.
["This month I'd like..."]
Editor's Notebook -
4.
["My best friend..."]
Dear Betty & Veronica -
5.
Snip Six-Pack Rings
Archie's Environmental Tips
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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