Archie Comics Digest
#141
[Direct]
(June 1996)
Archie,
1973 Series
- Price
- 1.75 USD; 1.90 CAD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- 6 times a year in Jan., April, June, Aug., Oct., and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 762816468503 14111
- Editing
- Nanci Dakesian; Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
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Changed Man
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Arch, will you stop flipping that stupid coin?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie is annoying Jughead with his constant flipping of his lucky coin, then loses it.
- Reprints
-
in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #227 (May 2012) - in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #4 (March 2018)
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Trash Bash
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Your mother has fainted!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead takes out the trash without being asked and his mother faints.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #50 (September 1976), #60 (September 1978)
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Prize Size
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jug, why is everyone studying karate at this camp?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Everyone is studying karate to fight off the mosquitoes at camp.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #60 (September 1978)
-
- Keywords
- karate
Four-Minute Smile!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You bet I'm fast, Li'l Jinx!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx wants to eat a candy bar without sharing with Charley so she challenges him to race around the block.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #121 (August 1980)
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Tradition
Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ronnie, I can't stand this suspense any longer!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Gary Brown; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie complains that Veronica she always breaks her date at the last minute before prom.
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #16 (June 1962)
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Itch Switch
Hot Dog / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Hot Dog
- Synopsis
- Jughead buys a flea collar for Hot Dog, then needs to buy one for himself.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #124 (July 1986)
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Rad Dad
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The superintendent called to say he'd drop by shortly to congratulate the school on its safety record!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee tries to do stunts on Archie's bicycle.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #130 (July 1987)
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Hit Bit
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's a pretty good swing, Reg!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Jughead helps Archie hit the bell on a carnival game.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #395 (June 1986)
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Of Knights and Daze
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have at thee, knave! Dost thou cry "enough"?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- The gang take part in a renaissance fair.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #282 (January 1991)
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- Keywords
- jester; jousting; renaissance fair
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #8, no credits listed in this digest.
[no title indexed]
Reggie Pin Up / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's wrong with the mail, lately --...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Reggie thinks his gag about "hair mail" is funny.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #36 (January 1976)
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The Moose Is Loose
Moose / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hear your new third baseman Moose is a fantastic fielder!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Moose absentmindedly throws his baseball glove to Archie instead of the baseball.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #140 (September 1969)
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- Keywords
- baseball
Eat Treat
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whoa, boy! That pie belongs to Betty! Don't touch!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead has a snack attack.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #342 (July 1986)
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Fickle Fingers of Fate
The Archies / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie! What are you doing? That's our lead guitar, not a Louisville slugger!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie thinks a fortune teller at the fair put a curse on his fingers so he will never play the guitar again.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #153 (January 1991)
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Astro-nut!
Li'l Jinx's Pal Charley / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you building, Charley Hawse
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Charley Hawse; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Charley is building a rocket to fly to Mars.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #128 (August 1981)
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Rock Yock
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is daddy's big yacht!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica is showing off her daddy's big possessions and Jughead thinks the boulder in front of her house must be Mr. Lodge's pet rock.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #64 (July 1979)
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Hard Habit to Break
Betty's Diary / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm going to do it, Dear Diary!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mrs. Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty talks Veronica into breaking up with Archie.
- Reprints
- from Betty's Diary (Archie, 1986 series) #30 (December 1989)
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No Bones About It!
Hot Dog / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My good pal, Beejay, smells bones, but I don't see any around!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Hot Dog; Beejay
- Synopsis
- Hot Dog follows Beejay to the Riverdale museum to a dinosaur exhibit.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #342 (July 1986)
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Food for Thought
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a bummer! Everyone else gets great part time jobs. They meet lots of girls!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Sandy Martin; Betty Cooper; Melanie; Carla; Sally; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie meets a lot of girls while working a summer job at a grocery store.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #311 (September 2020)
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Sweet Talk!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Charley Hawse! You broke your promise!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
- Synopsis
- Charley promised to cut down on eating candy so he only bought one bag of jelly beans instead of two.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #228 (December 1974)
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Stunt Stint
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gang! Watch this trick!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Jughead pretends to be asleep to fool Reggie into thinking he can eat burgers in his sleep.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #56 (October 1977)
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Potions of Love
Dilton / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Duh! So whut's wrong with a guy usin' a love potion tuh make hisself more attractive to his gurrl?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Moose Mason; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley; Midge Klump; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Midge asks the girls to make passes at Moose to boost his ego and he thinks it is the love potion that Dilton gave him.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #293 (August 1975)
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Tennis Bum! Part 1
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look alive, you clumsy clod!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Chuck Clayton; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Slade Smith
- Synopsis
- Chuck plays a tennis match against Slade Smith.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #59 (December 1978)
-
- Keywords
- tennis
Tennis Bum Part 2
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nancy? Archie! Just let me at that loose-lipped lout!!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Nancy Woods; Chuck Clayton; Betty Cooper; Coach Clayton; Slade Smith
- Synopsis
- Slade finishes the tennis match against Nancy Woods.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #59 (December 1978)
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- Keywords
- tennis
Take Me to the Prom
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can't go skateboarding with you, Jug! I promised Ronnie I'd check out her prom dress!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mrs. Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty makes a list of things she could do instead of going to the prom.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #185 (August 1990)
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Take the Stuff In My Room, Please
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did you tell your dad that all creative, artistic people acquire clutter?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie decides to hold a yard sale for all the junk in his room that his dad wants him to clean out. The wind blows all the price tags around.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #153 (January 1991)
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Double Takes
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Should we get a doggy bag for this leftover food?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Beazly
- Synopsis
- Archie and Veronica get a "Juggy bag" for the leftover food for Jughead.
Archie asks Jughead if he finds Ethel attractive.
Miss Beazly thinks Jughead took too much food. - Reprints
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #11 (June 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Three 2-panel gags.
Bye, Bye Birdie
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm coming! I'm coming! Special delivery from a Thurston Andrews!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Cheryl Blossom; Dennis Linkerman
- Synopsis
- Archie's uncle Thurston sends him a parrot that can use a hula hoop. Reggie schemes to steal it and enter it on "Dumb Pet Tricks" on Dennis Linkerman's show.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Comics Digest (Archie, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #5 (October 2014)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Spray-on-hair in a can?! Who'd be crazy enough to fall for that?"]
Archie -
1.
Changed Man
Archie -
2.
Trash Bash
Jughead -
3.
Prize Size
Jughead -
4.
Four-Minute Smile!
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Tradition
Veronica -
6.
Itch Switch
Hot Dog -
7.
Rad Dad
Archie -
8.
Hit Bit
Jughead -
9.
Of Knights and Daze
Archie -
10.
["What's wrong with the mail, lately --..."]
Reggie Pin Up -
11.
The Moose Is Loose
Moose -
12.
Eat Treat
Jughead -
13.
Fickle Fingers of Fate
The Archies -
14.
Astro-nut!
Li'l Jinx's Pal Charley -
15.
Rock Yock
Jughead -
16.
Hard Habit to Break
Betty's Diary -
17.
No Bones About It!
Hot Dog -
18.
Food for Thought
Archie -
19.
Sweet Talk!
Li'l Jinx -
20.
Stunt Stint
Jughead -
21.
Potions of Love
Dilton -
22.
Tennis Bum! Part 1
Archie -
23.
Tennis Bum Part 2
Archie -
24.
Take Me to the Prom
Betty -
25.
Take the Stuff In My Room, Please
Archie -
26.
Double Takes
Archie -
27.
Bye, Bye Birdie
Archie
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- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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