Wilbur Comics
#90
(October 1965)
Archie,
1944 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1965
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Wilbur / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Y'know, Bolo, nothing sends a chill down my spine like looking at Laurie!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Bolo Brown; Laurie Lake; Alec
Indexer Notes
Redrawn from the cover of Wilbur #73.
Shadow Boxed
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Alec; Linda Moore; Mert
- Synopsis
- Linda follows Laurie and Wilbur because she feels they are acting suspicious. She follows them to an unknown house where Laurie brings her inside and introduces her to a blind date named Mert.
- Reprints
-
from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #82 (January 1959) [New colors]
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Part-Time Help!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx Holliday; Hap Holliday
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx's father decides to give Li'l Jinx a quarter for cleaning her room, but Li'l Jinx only cleans a nickel's worth.
- Reprints
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #271 (August 2019)
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Water on the Brain
Tiny / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Tiny; Wilbur Wilkin; Sheldon Broadbeam; Slats Morgan; Laurie Lake
- Synopsis
- Tiny thinks that the chemical formula for water is the letters from H to O.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #87 (November 1959) which is reprinted
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #2 (1954) [Slightly modified script with same punchline]
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Something Fishy
Wilbur / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Pop's
- Synopsis
- When Wilbur orders fish because it is brain food, Pop's suggests buying a whale.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #87 (November 1959)
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Prank and File
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Linda Moore; Alec; Mr. Bumble
- Synopsis
- Linda and Alec scheme to let Linda go to the state fair with Wilbur and Alec instead of Laurie.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #82 (January 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Script, Pencils, Inks, and Letters confirmed by Archie's Double Digest Magazine #224.
Dark Eyes
Wilbur / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Laurie Lake; Mr. Lake; Wilbur Wilkin; Tiny; Dodo
- Synopsis
- Laurie gives herself a black eye but covers it with mascara. Wilbur gives her another on the opposite eye at the dance. Tiny says he will beat Wilbur up if he hurts Laurie again and when the mascara washes off, Tiny gets the wrong idea.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #82 (January 1959)
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Smart As an Ox!
Linda and Laurie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Linda Moore; Laurie Lake; Dodo; Wilbur Wilkin; Bolo Brown; Mr. Bumble; teachers
- Synopsis
- Linda, not to be beaten by Laurie, goes to great lengths to receive a most helpful student award. It turns out that Laurie was only helping to raise her grades.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #82 (January 1959)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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["Y'know, Bolo, nothing sends a chill down my spine like looking at Laurie!"]
Wilbur -
1.
Shadow Boxed
Wilbur -
2.
Part-Time Help!
Li'l Jinx -
3.
Water on the Brain
Tiny -
4.
Something Fishy
Wilbur -
5.
Prank and File
Wilbur -
6.
Dark Eyes
Wilbur -
7.
To Be a Nurse
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8.
Smart As an Ox!
Linda and Laurie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Bill Devine
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Brian Humphress
- Keith Alan Morgan
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