Archie 3000 #13 [Direct]
(December 1990)

Archie, 1989 Series
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Price
1.00 USD; 1.20 CAD; 0.75 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
7 times a year in Jan., Mar., May, July, Aug., Oct. and Nov.
On-sale Date
1990-10-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Archie Comic Publications Inc.
Brand
Archie Series
Editing
Scott Fulop (editor); Victor Gorelick (credited) (managing editor); Richard H. Goldwater (credited as Richard Goldwater) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #383.
This issue has variants:

[Someone to Watch Over Me] (Table of Contents)

Archie 3000 / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Dan Parent (signed)
Inks
Jon D'Agostino (signed)
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida

Genre
humor; science fiction; teen
Characters
Archie 3000; Waldo Weatherbee 3000

Someone to Watch Over Me (Table of Contents: 1)

Archie 3000 / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Parent (credited)
Pencils
Dan Parent (credited)
Inks
Pat Kennedy (credited)
Colors
Barry Grossman (credited)
Letters
Pat Brosseau (credited)

Genre
humor; science fiction; teen
Characters
Archie 3000; Betty 3000; Geraldine Grundy 3000; Veronica 3000; Waldo Weatherbee 3000
Synopsis
Mr. Weatherbee places Archie in Super Detention, a pre-programmed detention room with a robot version of Mr. Weatherbee, but later the principal finds himself accidentally locked into the room for the night.
Reprints
Keywords
detention

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ellen Leonforte (signed) (illustrations); ? (illustrations)
Inks
Ellen Leonforte (signed) (illustrations); ? (illustrations)
Colors
? (illustrations)
Letters
typeset

Feature Logo
Archie's Club News

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Valory Banistar, Kevin Thomas.

Smooth Sailing (Table of Contents: 3)

Archie 3000 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Kathleen Webb
Pencils
Kathleen Webb
Inks
Scott McRae
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Pat Brosseau

Genre
humor; science fiction; teen
Characters
Archie 3000; Betty 3000; Ethel 3000; Hot Dog 3000; Jughead 3000; Hiram Lodge 3000; Veronica 3000
Synopsis
Betty and Veronica compete to see who can sell the most "Galaxy Girl" manicures.

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie 3000 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Kathleen Webb
Pencils
Chris Allan
Inks
Jon D'Agostino
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Pat Brosseau

Genre
humor; science fiction; teen
Characters
Archie 3000; Betty 3000; Dilton 3000; Geraldine Grundy 3000; Reggie 3000; Veronica 3000; Dexter Andrews; Gloria Gudlucks; Vivian Vavoom
Synopsis
Betty and Veronica are not happy when they are paired with Dilton and Archie's cousin Dexter for the class picnic, but things work out better than they expected.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Veronica's Future Fashions / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dan Parent ?
Inks
?
Colors
Barry Grossman ?
Letters
?

Genre
fashion; science fiction; teen
Characters
Veronica 3000

Indexer Notes

Fashions submitted by Ria Tsetsekas, Rebecca Woodruff, Angie Faxon, Tammy Johnson, Brigid McKenna.

Mental Midget (Table of Contents: 6)

Archie 3000 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Rich Margopoulos
Pencils
Howard Bender
Inks
Jon D'Agostino
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
?

Genre
humor; science fiction; teen
Characters
Archie 3000; Betty 3000; Dilton 3000; Midge 3000; Moose 3000; Reggie 3000; Veronica 3000; Sam Scorpio
Synopsis
Sam Scorpio, an exchange student from Jupiter, comes on to Midge and Moose challenges him to a fight, However, Moose is already injured, so Dilton takes his place, using a mental arm wrestling invention which helps bring down Sam.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Someone to Watch Over Me]
    Archie 3000
  2. 1. Someone to Watch Over Me
    Archie 3000
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Archie Club News
  4. 3. Smooth Sailing
    Archie 3000
  5. 4. Never Judge a Book by Its Cover
    Archie 3000
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Veronica's Future Fashions
  7. 6. Mental Midget
    Archie 3000
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Merlin Haas
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Joey Sayer
  • Ramon Schenk