Archie & Friends
#54
[Direct Edition]
(March 2002)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 1.99 USD; 2.39 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times per year
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816469654 05411
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Ice Princess of the Lost Civilization
Josie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (signed as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza (signed)
- Colors
- Holly Golightly ?
- Letters
- John Costanza ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hail, Ice Princess!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine; Valerie Brown; unidentified lost civilization natives
- Synopsis
- Melody sits on a throne, proclaimed Ice Princess by a lost civilization, while Josie and Valerie look on askance.
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie & Friends (Archie, 1992 series) #54 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/219/w200/219448.jpg?1272509946396812314)
Ice Princess of the Lost Civilization
Josie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Feature Logo
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine; Valerie Brown; Alexander Cabot; Alexandria Cabot; Alan Mayberry; Oola
- Synopsis
- While skiing in Alaska, the Pussycats and Alan stumble upon the lost civilization of Icelandia. The people proclaim Melody their lost princess and all want her to stay - - all except Oola, the current leader of the tribe.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #200 (February 2010) - in The Best of Josie and the Pussycats (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #267 (March 2019)
-
- Keywords
- Alaska; skiing
[no title indexed]
Creative Corner / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Art and poetry submitted by Bethany Butle,; Felicia Schwartz, and Anoop Sangra.
Window Shopping
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Peterson; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- At his job at Peterson's Pet Shop, Archie starts to clean out the window display without noticing the sign in the window.
- Reprints
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #17 (March 2007)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #12 (March 2012)
-
Dreamland
Archie & Friends / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper (dream sequence); Veronica Lodge (dream sequence)
- Synopsis
- Jughead tries to get Archie to stop daydreaming and help with their project.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #231 (February 2007)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #13 (April 2012)
- in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #14 (March 2019)
-
- Keywords
- ice skating; rollerblading; skiing; surfing; volleyball; water skiing
Color Confusion
Mr. Weatherbee / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; unidentified DMV workers
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee has some trouble with his vital statistics while renewing his driver's license.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #231 (February 2007)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #17 (June 2012)
-
Yak Flak
Reggie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Reggie gets a little too full of himself, so Veronica feels obliged to burst his bubble.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #231 (February 2007)
- in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2012 series) #[nn] (2012)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #14 (May 2012)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #97 (April 2020)
-
Lost Chance
Archie & Friends / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- While watching a reality show named "Lost Chance" (a combination of "Survivor" and "The Great Race"), the gang imagine how they would fare if they were contestants on the show.
- Reprints
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #19 (May 2007)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #14 (May 2012)
- in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #15 (April 2019)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Ice Princess of the Lost Civilization
Josie -
1.
Ice Princess of the Lost Civilization
Josie -
2.
[no title indexed]
Creative Corner -
3.
Window Shopping
Archie -
4.
Dreamland
Archie & Friends -
5.
Color Confusion
Mr. Weatherbee -
6.
Yak Flak
Reggie -
7.
Lost Chance
Archie & Friends
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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.