Laugh Comics Digest
#143
[Direct Edition]
(August 1998)
Archie,
1974 Series
- Price
- 1.95 USD; 2.19 CAD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 762816468527 14311
Issue Notes
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Unglued Stamps
Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey (credited)
- Inks
- Rex Lindsey
- Colors
- Rex Lindsey
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Chuck Clayton; Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy assigns the class the task of creating some new stamp designs.
- Reprints
Fashions
Betty and Veronica / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Fashion page
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #283 (July 1979)
-
Looking for Love
Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Barbara Slate (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Smith (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Carlos; Hiram Lodge; Randolph
- Synopsis
- While on a beach in Brazil, Veronica tries using a metal detector to help her meet a cute boy.
- Reprints
- from Veronica (Archie, 1989 series) #28 (June 1993)
-
Rap Flap
Reggie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Reggie listens to a tape recording of himself paying himself compliments.
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #25 (May 1973)
-
The Rare Bird
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- Sensitive Archie takes Betty to the park to bird watch on her birthday, but ends up watching other girls instead.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #63 (February 1975)
-
Fashions for Sunshiny Days
Betty and Veronica / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #484 (September 1979)
-
Indexer Notes
Reader-submitted fashion page.
Responsibility
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Mr. Wilkin tells Bingo to call off his date with Samantha so he can stay home and help paint the house.
- Reprints
- from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #21 (January 1973)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #195, writing is credited to Frank Doyle.
Odds on it
Betty's Heart / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Michael Gallagher
- Pencils
- Doug Crane
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty's statistics class is beginning to affect her personal life.
- Reprints
- from Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #3 (December 1992)
-
One for the Books
Betty's Diary / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Reprints
- from Betty's Diary (Archie, 1986 series) #25 (June 1989)
-
A Date with Destiny Jones!
Archie 3000 / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Rich Margopoulos
- Pencils
- Dan Parent
- Inks
- Scott McRae
- Colors
- Dan Parent; Bill Golliher
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau
- Genre
- science fiction; teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Destiny Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and Reggie have a race on astro water skis to win a date with rock star Destiny Jones (who turns out to be Jughead's cousin). Naturally, Reggie sabotages Archie's skis, but Archie wins anyway.
- Reprints
- from Archie 3000 (Archie, 1989 series) #10 (August 1990)
-
The Purr-fect Crime
Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie rescues a cat stuck in a tree. Now who's going to rescue Archie?
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #88 (October 1977)
-
Betty's Bikinis
Betty / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #298 (October 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Betty in various bikinis.
Reggie’s Gift
Betty's Diary / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Sam Kujava (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear diary, I love Grandma Cooper, but shopping for her birthday gift is the absolute pits!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Betty sees Reggie go into a retirement home and follows him in there. She learns that he goes there twice a month to visit an elderly woman who used to babysit him as a child.
- Reprints
- from Betty's Diary (Archie, 1986 series) #20 (September 1988)
-
Clipping Penalty
Betty and Me / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie gets a job trimming a hedge in order to pay for his date with Betty. Betty decides to help him so he won't be too tired.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #72 (February 1976)
-
Campout Capers!
Archie 3000 / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie 3000; Reggie 3000; Chuck 3000; Moose 3000; Veronica 3000; Betty 3000; Nancy 3000; Midge 3000
- Synopsis
- The boys are bored because the girls have gone on a camping trip, so they decide to have some fun by scaring the girls.
- Reprints
- from Archie 3000 (Archie, 1989 series) #9 (July 1990)
-
- Keywords
- camping
Just Like Us!
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Veronica (Archie, 1989 series) #24 (October 1992)
-
Get A Life
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Smithers the butler; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Watching his daughter and Betty engage in a vigorous badminton game gets Mr. Lodge pining for his youth. So he grabs Smithers and challenges the girls to a doubles match.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1987 series) #65 (July 1993)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Reggie's finally found a TV show that he likes!"]
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1.
Unglued Stamps
Jughead -
2.
Fashions
Betty and Veronica -
3.
Looking for Love
Veronica -
4.
Rap Flap
Reggie -
5.
The Rare Bird
Archie -
6.
Fashions for Sunshiny Days
Betty and Veronica -
7.
Responsibility
That Wilkin Boy -
8.
Odds on it
Betty's Heart -
9.
One for the Books
Betty's Diary -
10.
A Date with Destiny Jones!
Archie 3000 -
11.
The Purr-fect Crime
Archie -
12.
Betty's Bikinis
Betty -
13.
Reggie’s Gift
Betty's Diary -
14.
Clipping Penalty
Betty and Me -
15.
Campout Capers!
Archie 3000 -
16.
Just Like Us!
Archie -
17.
Get A Life
Betty and Veronica -
18.
Working Stiffs
Archie
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- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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