(November 1973)
Archie,
1970 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- 5 times a year in Feb., May, Aug., Sept. & Nov.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
The Velvet Touch!
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; teen
- Characters
- Clyde Didit; Rod the Mod; Fran the Fan; Popo (a dog); Holly; Velvet Touch
- Synopsis
- Clyde and Rod try to trap the infamous master criminal Tony Velvet.
Indexer Notes
First of a few stories to feature Clyde and Rod as student criminologists, who often get unwanted help from Fran and her dog detective Popo.
[no title indexed]
Archie Comics Digest / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 160 pages of stories and fun in Archie's full comics color digest!
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Big Ethel Muggs; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Li'l Jinx
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Archie Comics Digest #2. Contains an order blank, a paste-up of the cover, and original art with the heads of the gang.
One of Those Days!
Li'l Jinx Featuring Charley Hawse / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Charley is having a bad day.
Wise Guise
Madhouse / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A Maharishi is asked the meaning of life.
- Keywords
- Maharishi
Tee'd Off
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Dick Didit; Fran the Fan
- Synopsis
- Dick teaches Fran how to play golf.
- Keywords
- golf
[no title indexed]
Archie Quarter Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get in the groove for a giant fun-in!
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Archie Quarter Comics. Contains an order blank and the logos of the 20 titles.
Appears between pages 3 and 4 of the previous sequence.
The Case of the Handmade Frame
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; teen
- Characters
- Clyde Didit; Rod the Mod; Fran the Fan; Holly; Inspector Dwight; Popo (a dog); Sir John Mandrake (villain)
- Synopsis
- When student criminologists Rod and Clyde are hired to investigate the disappearance of a painting, they are framed for insurance fraud and it's up to Fran to clear their names.
- Reprints
-
in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
- Keywords
- insurance fraud
Notes to You
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Clyde Didit; Dan Didit
- Synopsis
- Clyde and Dan have a guitar duel.
- Reprints
- from Mad House Ma-ad Freak-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #71 (October 1969) [Ma-ads relettered to read Glads.]
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Flee Glee
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Madhouse Glads [Clyde Didit; Dan Didit; Dick Didit; Dippy Didit]
- Synopsis
- The Madhouse Glads attempt to escape from their female fans.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #73 (May 1970)
-
Pick Kick
The Madhouse Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Madhouse Glads [Clyde Didit; Dick Didit; Dippy Didit; Dan Didit]
- Synopsis
- A radio station reveals how they pick hit songs.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #73 (May 1970)
-
Dough Woe
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Madhouse Glads [Clyde Didit; Dan Didit; Dick Didit; Dippy Didit]
- Synopsis
- The guy that pays the Glads for their gigs is the tightest one of all.
- Reprints
- from Mad House Ma-ad Freak-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #71 (October 1969) [Ma-ads re-lettered to read Glads]
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Bus Fuss
Madhouse Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Madhouse Glads [Clyde Didit; Dan Didit; Dick Didit; Dippy Didit]
- Synopsis
- Dippy did a paint job on the bus.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #74 (August 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Credit from the index of the original printing.
The Mr. Clean Scene
Mad House Glads / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Clyde Diddit; Dan Diddit; Peter P. Pushy
- Synopsis
- Dan tricks a vacuum cleaner salesman into demonstrating his product and, in the process, cleaning the entire house.
- Reprints
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Indexer Notes
The cord of the vacuum on page 2 is tangled in such a way to spell out "Samm."
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Case of the Handmade Frame
Madhouse Glads -
1.
The Velvet Touch!
-
2.
["160 pages of stories and fun in Archie's full comics color digest!"]
Archie Comics Digest -
3.
One of Those Days!
Li'l Jinx Featuring Charley Hawse -
4.
Wise Guise
Madhouse -
5.
Tee'd Off
Madhouse Glads -
6.
["Get in the groove for a giant fun-in!"]
Archie Quarter Comics -
7.
The Case of the Handmade Frame
Madhouse Glads -
8.
Notes to You
Madhouse Glads -
9.
Flee Glee
Madhouse Glads -
10.
Pick Kick
The Madhouse Glads -
11.
Dough Woe
Madhouse Glads -
12.
Bus Fuss
Madhouse Glads -
13.
Dear Fran
Dear Fran -
14.
The Mr. Clean Scene
Mad House Glads
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- Gregory Fischer
- Mike Nielsen
- Jaime Weinman
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