Archie
#487
[Direct Edition]
(September 1999)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 1.79 USD; 1.99 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816467476 48711
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
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Taking the Plunge
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie and his friends go to Carson’s Creek where they used to swim as kids and find it all polluted so they work to clean it up.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #208 (August 2004) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #210 (September 2010)
- in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #19 (September 2019)
- in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #14
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- Keywords
- pollution
Beach Botch
Sabrina / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Sabrina Spellman; Salem
- Synopsis
- Sabrina wants to go to the beach so uses a spell to take her to a place with lots of sand and clear blue skies.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #194 (September 2004)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #204 (October 2012)
- in Archie Comics Super Special (Archie, 2012 series) #3 (July 2013)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #275 (September 2019)
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- Keywords
- Sahara Desert
Let’s All Scream for Ice Cream
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Archie fills in as an ice cream salesman for his friend Juan.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #208 (August 2004)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #210 (September 2010)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #320 (July 2021)
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It's in the Cards
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie needs some extra money to buy a present for Betty so he convinces his father to pay him to fill out the Christmas cards in advance even though it's only July.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #208 (August 2004)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #300 (August 2019)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jubilee (Archie, 2019 series) (2019)
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The Big Psych
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Cheryl Blossom
- Synopsis
- Reggie tries to psych out Archie ahead of a jet ski race by convincing Archie it's not even worth the effort of entering because Reggie is so much better.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #208 (August 2004)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #210 (September 2010)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #290 (August 2018)
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- Keywords
- jet ski
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Jug, are you seasick?"]
Archie -
1.
Taking the Plunge
Archie -
2.
Beach Botch
Sabrina -
3.
Let’s All Scream for Ice Cream
Archie -
4.
It's in the Cards
Archie -
5.
The Big Psych
Archie
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