(March 1987)
Archie,
1974 Series
- Price
- 1.35 USD; 1.50 CAD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 0271000699679
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Jughead with Archie Comics Digest Magazine."
This issue has variants:
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Rhyme Without Reason
Jughead with Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- Barry Grossman; Lisa Goldwater; Ginny Sykora; Nanci Dakesian
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Jughead starts talking in rhyme all the time, and infects everyone else with the rhyming bug, to the point where no one in the entire school can stop rhyming. Betty and Veronica team up to accomplish the only thing that can break the spell: hitting Jughead in the head.
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #94 (March 1963)
-
- Keywords
- rhyme
Pet Set
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Reggie's favorite pet is a parrot.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #46 (August 1978)
-
- Keywords
- parrot
Vain Vein
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Reggie thinks the security guards are lucky, they get to look at Reggie all day.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #46 (August 1978)
-
Say the Magic Word
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Reggie!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Pop Tate; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Everybody has a special word that they respond to.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #268 (February 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
Get the Message?
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jughead!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Archie makes Veronica mad, then hides behind Jughead.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #359 (February 1981)
-
Attention Getter
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Halliday; Jinx's mother
- Synopsis
- Jinx wears a top-hat and funny glasses, trying to get noticed by her parents.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #63 (August 1960)
-
It's No Joke
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, would you take this to Mr. Weatherbee? He's got a terrible cold!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Miss Beazly; Waldo Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Miss Beazly sends Archie to deliver some hot tea and lemon to Mr. Weatherbee.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #99 (February 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
A Fast Shovel
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Gred; Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Charley tries to earn some money by shoveling walks.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #323 (March 1977)
-
Great Day for a Picnic
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hot Dog! It's Saturday!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie has to shovel the driveway and decides to use the grill to heat the shovel to speed things along. Soon his friends show up and they have a cook-out in the snow.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #99 (February 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
[no title indexed]
Veronica Pin-Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wha..?!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica brings home empty boxes from shopping.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #255 (April 1979)
-
A Wrap Session
Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- At the ski slope, everyone tries to go down Suicide Hill--except Jughead, who has another idea.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #313 (April 1977)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
Doing a Number Number
Moose / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Moose Mason; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Midge questions Moose about his grades.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #358 (January 1981)
-
Puck Pluck
Moose / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Moose fails to grasp the finer points of ice hockey.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #358 (January 1981)
-
Shoe Shoe Baby
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Svenson the janitor
- Synopsis
- To get to school after a night of freezing rain, Archie wears a pair of spiked golf shoes. But he doesn't consider what to do once he gets to school.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #323 (March 1977)
-
That's the Spirit
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- The Riverdale marching band spells out a message for the football team.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #52 (February 1961)
-
- Keywords
- football; marching band
Hole in One
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #52 (February 1961)
-
Never Say Die
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Jughead gives Archie advice on how to get his allowance raised.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #52 (February 1961)
-
Race Chase
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, wow! So this is your Dad's new snowmobile!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- Archie wants to see the demonstration of Mr. Lodge's new snowmobile.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #90 (February 1981)
-
- Keywords
- snowmobile
The Sound of Music
Dilton / comic story / 6 pages
- Feature Logo
- Dilton Doiley
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Dilton Doily; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Mr. Lodge; the Archies
- Synopsis
- The Archies recruit Dilton to troubleshoot electrical problems in their sound system. He grounds to the water line, piping music throughout the Lodge mansion, then to the sewer line, piping music throughout the city.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #229 (May 1969)
-
- Keywords
- rock music; the Archies
Court Report
Jughead / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir; Samm Schwartz
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- Feature Logo
Jughead- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead; Archie; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- When Coach Kleats discovers that Jughead has an uncanny skill at basketball, he drafts him onto the varsity squad. With a big game about to start, though, Jughead decides to take a little nap. And nothing his friends can do will wake him.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #314 (July 1981)
-
- Keywords
- basketball
Time Clock
Reggie / comic story / 1 page
- Feature Logo
Reggie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Reggie dislikes punching in every day.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #52 (January 1980)
-
Noteworthy
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eeyabbadabba dooby-doo!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mrs. Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When Veronica breaks her date with Archie, Fred tries to cheer his son up.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #165 (January 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
Paper Mates
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Gigi; Hap Holiday; Charley Hawse; Greg
- Synopsis
- Rather than buy Jinx an expensive Japanese doll to compete with Gigi, Hap shows her the art of origami.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #311 (March 1976)
-
Skate Mate
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Jughead has trouble ice-skating.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #94 (March 1963)
-
- Keywords
- hug; ice-skating
Knock on Jug
Ethel / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- Feature Logo
- Big Ethel
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Ethel protests that she isn't superstitious, even as she manipulates her Jughead voodoo love doll.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #311 (March 1976)
-
Man Talk
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Pop Tate; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie's grades are slipping so his father tries to stop him from going out on a Saturday night.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #313 (February 1982)
-
Blind Luck
Jughead / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #63 (August 1960)
-
Now 'ear This
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Lacking earmuffs, Jinx improvises.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #94 (March 1963)
-
Dance Fever
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Veronica; Betty; Reggie
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #314 (March 1982)
-
Science Saga
Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Dilton's robot; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Jughead borrows Dilton's robot and uses it to do everything for him.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #244 (September 1975)
-
Trail’s End
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's something wrong with the world when a guy's got to work this hard just to get to school!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; Svenson; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy reminds everyone how Mr. Weatherbee feels about dirty floors after the students track in snow and slush from outside. They all pitch in to mop the floors and yell at the next 'idiot' to mess up the floors - Mr. Weatherbee.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #90 (February 1981)
-
Quiz Fizz
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- After a multiple choice test, Reggie can only communicate with multiple choice options.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #46 (August 1978)
-
Gas Sass
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Reggie reminds Veronica of a jet.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #46 (August 1978)
-
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Table of Contents
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0.
["Isn't it silly to sell ice cream in the winter?"]
-
1.
Rhyme Without Reason
Jughead with Archie -
2.
Pet Set
Reggie -
3.
Vain Vein
Reggie -
4.
Say the Magic Word
Archie -
5.
Get the Message?
Archie -
6.
Attention Getter
Li'l Jinx -
7.
It's No Joke
Archie -
8.
A Fast Shovel
Li'l Jinx -
9.
Great Day for a Picnic
Archie -
10.
One for the Book!
Betty and Veronica -
11.
["Wha..?!"]
Veronica Pin-Up -
12.
A Wrap Session
Jughead -
13.
Doing a Number Number
Moose -
14.
Puck Pluck
Moose -
15.
Shoe Shoe Baby
Archie -
16.
That's the Spirit
Archie -
17.
Hole in One
Jughead -
18.
Never Say Die
Archie -
19.
Race Chase
Archie -
20.
The Sound of Music
Dilton -
21.
Court Report
Jughead -
22.
Time Clock
Reggie -
23.
Noteworthy
Archie -
24.
Paper Mates
Li'l Jinx -
25.
Skate Mate
Jughead -
26.
Knock on Jug
Ethel -
27.
Man Talk
Archie -
28.
Blind Luck
Jughead -
29.
Now 'ear This
Li'l Jinx -
30.
Dance Fever
Archie -
31.
Science Saga
Jughead -
32.
Trail’s End
Archie -
33.
Quiz Fizz
Reggie -
34.
Gas Sass
Reggie
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