(August 1963)
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Close-Up, Inc.
- Brand:
- Archie Series
- Editing:
- Richard Goldwater
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Silver Age US; later Standard Modern Age US
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
Black Book Bluff
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils:
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks:
- Bill Vigoda
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- teen; humor
- Characters:
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis:
- Veronica threatens to break up with Archie unless he shows the gang the little black book where he's been writing down all their secrets. After sending another black book ("The Wobbsey Twins At Haunted Lodge") as a decoy, he finally gives in and is about to read the mysterious book to them, until he plays on his friends' fears of having their guilty secrets come out.
Indexer Notes
This is part of a storyline that began in "The Little Black Book" (Archie # 129) and continued in "The Black Book Returns" (Archie # 132)
The Big Black & Blue Belt
Archie / comic story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks:
- Bill Vigoda
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- teen; humor
- Characters:
- Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis:
- Archie tries to get his black belt in karate.
Moon, June, Ruin!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils:
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks:
- Bill Vigoda
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- teen; humor
- Characters:
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis:
- Archie is writing a song, which leads to his friends trying to figure out who he's writing it for, not to mention a lot of puns and mockery of his songwriting skills.
Indexer Notes
The song Reggie and Jughead sing is "You Always Hurt the One You Love," which writer Frank Doyle quoted in many stories well into the '80s.
Hikes and Likes!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Edwards
- Pencils:
- Joe Edwards
- Inks:
- Joe Edwards
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Joe Edwards
Content Information
- Genre:
- children; humor
- Characters:
- Li'l Jinx; Ga Ga; Hap Holliday
- Synopsis:
- After the President calls for the youth of America to be more physically active, Li'l Jinx prepares to go on a fifty mile hike.
Indexer Notes
One of many Archie stories from 1962-3 based on President Kennedy's call for kids to exercise more.
Daddy's Girl
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils:
- Dan DeCarlo
- Inks:
- Rudy Lapick
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Marty Epp
Content Information
- Genre:
- teen; humor
- Characters:
- Josie; Mr. Jones; Albert; Pepper
- Synopsis:
- Josie accuses her father of raising her as a tomboy because he always wanted a boy. She decides she's going to be sickeningly feminine from now on.
- Reprints:
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #13 (November 1977)
-
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Of course it's Archie!"]
Archie -
1.
Black Book Bluff
Archie -
2.
The Big Black & Blue Belt
Archie -
3.
Moon, June, Ruin!
Archie -
4.
Hikes and Likes!
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Daddy's Girl
Josie
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jaime Weinman
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Terry Watkins
- Merlin Haas
- Lou Mazzella
- Michael Eshom
- Donald Dale Milne
- Jerry Hillegas
- Gregory Fischer
- Steven Rowe
All portions of the Grand Comics Database, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.