(June 2004)
Archie,
1984 Series
- Price
- 3.59 USD
- Pages
- 196
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 2004-04-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 762816469517 15111
[no title indexed]
Archie’s Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Miss Beazly!
- Genre
- humor; teen
Tall Tale Test
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Jughead's friend Waldo tells outlandish stories.
- Reprints
-
from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #424 (June 1994)
-
The Price You Pay
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #83 (December 1981)
-
Science Friction
Reggie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Reggie dresses up as a Martian to scare the gang because they laughed at him for reading science fiction magazines, but Mr. Lodge calls the police.
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #27 (January 1968)
-
Equal Wrongs
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Coach Clayton; Chuck Clayton
- Synopsis
- Coach Clayton isn't treating everyone equally.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #158 (June 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #57.
Scare Affair
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie changes the Beware of Dog sign after getting yelled at by Mr. Lodge.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #251 (December 1978)
-
Petal Power
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie must go but the roses can stay.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #251 (December 1978)
-
The Giant Eggplant That Conquered the World
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Rich Margopoulos (credited)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey (credited as Rex W. Lindsey)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Colonel Archie Andrews [also as Archie Andrews]; Commander Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Dr. Dilton Doiley; Professor Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; General Weatherbee; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie falls asleep and imagines himself in a B-movie.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #270 (January 1989)
-
- Keywords
- Antarctica; B movie; eggplant; UFO
Indexer Notes
In two parts.
Credits from the reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #21.
That's the Ticket
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Mary Andrews; Hubert Smithers; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie wants to surprise Veronica when she returns from a big trip with tickets to her favorite band.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #104 (December 1998)
-
Date Strait
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #245 (June 1978)
-
Impossible Journey
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Reggie keeps sabotaging Archie to prevent him from getting to a date with Veronica.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #178 (December 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
This story has no dialogue until the final panel.
Country Calamity
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton; Floyd Clayton; Moose Mason; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Coach Kleats wants to be a country music star.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #78 (February 1981)
-
Rep Rap
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Reggie asks Archie what everybody thinks of him.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #44 (January 1978)
-
Fright Sight
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Reggie is at Midge's house when Moose calls.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #44 (January 1978)
-
Getting the Treatment
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Fernando Ruiz (credited)
- Pencils
- Fernando Ruiz (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Reggie has the hiccups.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #20 (July 2016)
-
- Keywords
- hiccups
The Good Skate
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie makes it to school on time despite oversleeping, by using his roller skates. But of course it ends in disaster.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #105 (June 1976)
-
- Keywords
- roller skates
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #287.
Forget Regret
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Svenson; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee spills coffee on his pants.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #258 (July 1979)
-
It's Our Business!
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey (credited)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Dilton Doiley; Chuck Clayton; Nancy Woods; Hiram Lodge; Hermione Lodge; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Coach Kleats; Coach Clayton; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- With business slowing down, Pop Tate considers selling the malt shop but the kids and their parents help improve Pop's business.
- Reprints
- from World of Archie (Archie, 1992 series) #6 (November 1993)
-
Just Like That
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Riverdale High's computer goes down before Archie and Jughead are able to use it to solve a big math problem they've been assigned. Dilton assigns a small part of the problem to each of the gang and they are able to solve it on their own.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #120 (January 1978)
-
Pop's is Tops!
Archie & Friends / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Chuck Clayton; Pop Tate; Nancy Woods
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #422 (April 1994)
-
Bottled Up
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- The gang looks for a time capsule they buried five years earlier during summer camp.
- Reprints
The Jokers
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dexter Taylor (credited)
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor (credited)
- Inks
- Reggie Orr (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Reggie Orr (credited)
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Reggie Mantle; Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Geraldine Grundy; Little Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- When Archie gets in trouble at school, Archie, Reggie and Jughead try to intercept Miss Grundy's phone call to Archie's parents.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #45 (November 1990)
-
Name Treasure
Little Archie / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
A Seeing Star
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Fangs Fogarty; Penny Peabody; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge; Little Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Little Dilton Doiley (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica try coaching Fangs for his role in the school play.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #308, no credits listed in this digest.
Catch Me If You Can
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Mary Andrews
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #212 (December 2010)
-
Oh My! The Fly
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Fred Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Hot Dog
- Synopsis
- Little Archie and Little Jughead go fly fishing.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #90 (August 2019)
-
- Keywords
- fishing
For Business Ache
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Fangs Fogarty; Little Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Little Archie decides to take a job shining shoes to raise money to take Veronica to a concert.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #45 ([Winter] 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #20.
The One That Got Away
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones
It's Show Time!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Edwards (credited)
- Pencils
- Fernando Ruiz (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Amash (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andres; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Chuck Clayton; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- Veronica is appearing on a trivia game show and Archie forgets to record it for her.
- Reprints
- from Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #163 (June 1999)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, did you finish repairing that chair yet?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie fixes a chair.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #37 ([February] 1980) which is reprinted
- from Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX
-
Something Suitable
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Whenever Archie decides to get to Pop Tate's a certain way, Veronica must change her outfit to suit the method of transportation.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #351 (September 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #239, the writing is credited to Frank Doyle.
Oh, A Smart House, Eh?
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Fernando Ruiz (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- Dilton has built a house that responds to Archie's voice commands.
- Reprints
A Noisy Lesson
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Svenson
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee tries to convince Archie that he knows all about solving problems.
- Reprints
- from Laugh (Archie, 1987 series) #4 (December 1987)
-
The "Bird Man"
Reggie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Reggie pulls off the "big lie" technique, claiming to find a rare grommet egg.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #59 (August 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for everything except pencils from Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #14. In Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #14, pencils are credited to John Rosenberger.
Talk Balk
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie's cousin keeps interrupting the baseball game on TV.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #226 (November 1976)
-
Freak Critique
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie's dad thinks he's too attached to his skateboard.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #226 (November 1976)
-
- Keywords
- skateboards
Tycoon
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My! The man's going up in the polishing game!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Roger
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge sells Archie a single share in one of his companies.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #74 (June 1968)
-
Job Jibe
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie is working for Mr. Lodge, but seems to have no chance of advancement.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #233 (June 1977)
-
Baseball Frank
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Fernando Ruiz (credited)
- Pencils
- Fernando Ruiz (credited)
- Inks
- Al Nickerson (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Fred go to a sporting goods store to buy some baseball equipment for Archie.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #108 (June 1999)
-
- Keywords
- baseball; sporting goods store
Happy Times
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie is in a good mood but everybody else gets him down.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #294 (July 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #12.
Alphabet Soup
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Ethel Muggs; Cricket O'Dell; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- The Archie characters are represented by a strange alphabet: ABVJRGWmBMDECL.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #139 (August 1963)
-
- Keywords
- alphabet; arrow; fourth wall; jealousy; money; phone booth
Indexer Notes
A take-off on alphabet books (A stands for apple; B stands for boy, etc.). The story is told entirely in captions.
Don't Mind Me
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy (credited)
- Inks
- Ken Selig (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie daydreams during detention.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #23 (January 2017)
- in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #8 (June 2020)
-
- Keywords
- hockey
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Archie, I think you forgot to cover the blender!"]
Archie -
1.
Carrier Pigeon
Archie -
2.
["Miss Beazly!"]
Archie’s Gag Bag -
3.
Tall Tale Test
Archie -
4.
The Price You Pay
Archie -
5.
Science Friction
Reggie -
6.
Equal Wrongs
Archie -
7.
Scare Affair
Archie -
8.
Petal Power
Archie -
9.
The Giant Eggplant That Conquered the World
Archie -
10.
That's the Ticket
Archie -
11.
Date Strait
Archie -
12.
Impossible Journey
Archie -
13.
Country Calamity
Archie -
14.
Rep Rap
Reggie -
15.
Fright Sight
Reggie -
16.
Getting the Treatment
Archie and the Gang -
17.
The Good Skate
Archie -
18.
Forget Regret
Archie -
19.
It's Our Business!
Archie -
20.
Just Like That
Archie -
21.
Pop's is Tops!
Archie & Friends -
22.
Bottled Up
Archie and the Gang -
23.
The Jokers
Little Archie -
24.
Name Treasure
Little Archie -
25.
A Seeing Star
Little Archie -
26.
Catch Me If You Can
Little Archie -
27.
Oh My! The Fly
Little Archie -
28.
For Business Ache
Little Archie -
29.
The One That Got Away
Little Archie -
30.
It's Show Time!
Archie -
31.
["Archie, did you finish repairing that chair yet?"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
32.
Something Suitable
Archie -
33.
Oh, A Smart House, Eh?
Archie -
34.
A Noisy Lesson
Archie -
35.
The "Bird Man"
Reggie -
36.
Talk Balk
Archie -
37.
Freak Critique
Archie -
38.
Tycoon
Archie -
39.
Job Jibe
Archie -
40.
Baseball Frank
Archie -
41.
Happy Times
Archie -
42.
Alphabet Soup
Archie -
43.
Don't Mind Me
Archie
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- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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