Laugh Comics
#168
(March 1965)
Archie,
1946 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cover / 1 page
Pirate Prose
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews (as Captain Kidd); Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Arrr! Archie, aka Captain Kidd, tries to be the scurviest swine on the high seas with the help of a book that teaches him how to talk pirate. Meanwhile, Betty, the booty, shoots the Cap'n in the behind with a pistol.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #1 (August 1973) - in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #1 (January 1982)
-
- Keywords
- island; lifeboat; marooned; pirates; pistol; sword
Indexer Notes
A parody of pirate stories.
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica's Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ronnie!! You're going out on the ski slopes dressed like that?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica displays her form-fitting ski outfit.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #32 (June 1965)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #51 (March 1991)
-
- Keywords
- skiing; skis
Up to Date
Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Veronica Lodge; George
- Synopsis
- Betty's mom alters her skimpy new dress into an old-fashioned gown with bustles and a high neckline, which Betty finds humiliating but which attracts a cute guy who loves the "old-fashioned girl."
- Reprints
- Keywords
- closet; dress; house-cleaning; sewing
A Good Skate
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4.33 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx learns skateboarding. Her father decides he wants to try it, too.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #187 (November 2003)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #238 (June 2014)
-
- Keywords
- skateboards
[no title indexed]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals / text article / 0.67 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You've come to the right place--
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx (cameo)
Indexer Notes
List of 41 persons (ages 7 to 17) desiring pen pals. In addition to the United States, countries include West Germany, Congo, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, Columbia, Scotland, Philippines, Iran, and West Pakistan.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to David Irving (Chicago, Ill.) for article on football. Second prize of $3.00 to Bill Hall (St. Louis, Mo.) for poem about the Beatles. Third prize of $2.00 to Wendy Crespi (Cheshire, Conn.) for three jokes. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Eli Martel (Rockville, Md.) for three jokes.
Sale Tale
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Mr. Jones; Melody; Pepper
- Synopsis
- Josie and Pepper have violently fought off legions of other shoppers to get great dresses in a bargain sale at Bramble's department store. But Melody, who isn't nearly as smart a shopper as Josie and Pepper, gets more male attention by ending up with the wrong outfit.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #43 (December 2014)
-
- Keywords
- department stores; sale
Indexer Notes
Dan DeCarlo caricatures himself as the first boy from the left in the final panel.
This is the last regular appearance of the "Josie" feature in Laugh Comics. The feature will still appear occasionally, next in issue 285.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Maybe if they invented a hamburger-flavored lipstick I could get Jughead to kiss me!"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Pirate Prose
Archie -
2.
Mean Teen!
Moose -
3.
["Ronnie!! You're going out on the ski slopes dressed like that?"]
Betty and Veronica's Pin Up -
4.
Up to Date
Betty -
5.
Send a Dollar and Save 44¢
Archie Comics -
6.
A Good Skate
Li'l Jinx -
7.
["You've come to the right place--"]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
10.
Sale Tale
Josie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jaime Weinman
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