Laugh Comics
#305
(August 1976)
- Price
- 0.30 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 [vertical]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Veronica, would you still love me if I couldn’t afford to take you out?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Cover art credit based on the artists' distinctive style although it could be Dan DeCarlo as he and Stan Goldberg were almost identical in the 1970's. Cover dialogue is repeated verbatim on the cover of Archie's Comic Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #69 (December 1984), though the setting is different.
Handy Man
Reggie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Reggie tries to get out of paying two bucks for the dance by trying to sneak in through the window.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for story. Art is easily identified as Samm (Sam) Schwartz's by his distinctive style.
The Error
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- According to Coach Kleats, the only thing Archie can catch is a cold.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for gag. Top half page gag shared with Archie's gag bag.
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, if you’re painting the back of the garage you should start at the top!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Unnamed rival player
- Synopsis
- Two gags featuring Archie's unique trampoline painting technique and Betty's catching requests.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for gag. Bottom half of page shared with Archie "The Error" gag.
Watch Out
Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- To make sure Veronica is never 20 minutes late for anymore of their dates, Archie gives her a cheap watch that is twenty minutes fast but when she throws it off to Betty, Betty thinks Archie is twenty minutes late for their date.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for story. Art is easily identified as Samm (Sam) Schwartz's by his distinctive style.
Snooze News
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Mrs. Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead's sleep causes him to think his school day went by fast.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for gag. Art is easily identified as Samm (Sam) Schwartz's by his distinctive style.
What's Cooking Puzzle
Miss Beazly / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Miss Beazly
- Synopsis
- Miss Beazly scrambled word puzzle based on the cafeteria menu.
- Keywords
- games
Indexer Notes
No credits given for puzzle.
Guess What's for Lunch
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse; Puppy; Miss Robin; Greg
- Synopsis
- Charley Hawse finds a puppy and takes him to school.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for story.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Indexer Notes
Archie Club news page featuring news reports by Mike Breshears (Plants) & Susan Wojcikowski (Flutes). Mike Breshears recieved $6.00 for his article and Susan Wojcikowski recieved $4.00. Archie Club Membership order form on bottom of page.
Anything to Help
Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley [Dilton Doily]; Moose Mason; Unnamed Riverdale teens
Indexer Notes
No credits given for story. Bob Bolling's art credit based on his distinctive style.
[no title indexed]
Archie Pin Up / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly, Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- A pinup of Betty and Archie watching TV.
- Reprints
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #60 (September 1985) - in Betty and Veronica Annual Digest Magazine (Archie, 1989 series) #15 (July 1996)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #173 (November 2006)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #222 (November 2011), #283 (December 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
No credits given for pinup. Dan DeCarlo's art credit based on his distinctive style.
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0.
["Veronica, would you still love me if I couldn’t afford to take you out?"]
Archie -
1.
Handy Man
Reggie -
2.
The Error
Archie -
3.
["Archie, if you’re painting the back of the garage you should start at the top!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
4.
Watch Out
Archie -
5.
Snooze News
Jughead -
6.
What's Cooking Puzzle
Miss Beazly -
7.
Guess What's for Lunch
Li'l Jinx -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
Anything to Help
Archie -
10.
["Golly, Archie"]
Archie Pin Up
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Matthias Hofmann
- Thomas Johnson
- Clint Maxwell
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
- Terry Watkins
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