(1981-1982)
Archie,
1975 Series
- Price
- 0.95 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- once a year
- On-sale Date
- 1981-06-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000690812
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia date is "1981-82 Edition."
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, mighty wizard! Transform me from a barbarian into a gentleman!!!
- Genre
- humor; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Invisible Man; Mermaid; two-headed man; wizard; barbarian
- Keywords
- barbarian; deodorant; wizard
Indexer Notes
Mirror writing at bottom says "Congratulations! You've got a great mag in your hands!"
[no title indexed]
Space Section / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just look at these fantastic photos of my space adventures!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket poses for some heroic photos by sticking his head through a hole in a mural.
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #30 (December 1963)
-
- Keywords
- photographs; publicity
Mr. Fix-It of the Space World
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Sabrina (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket gets an award for his discovery of the planet Nishdu.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #27 (August 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Appearance of Sprocket's unnamed nephew.
Space Patrolman
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Abner McKlunk
- Synopsis
- A space patrolman makes one mistake after another.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #51 (December 1966)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; bank robbers; flying saucer; movie-making; Neptune
Indexer Notes
Credits confirmed in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #9.
Jungle Bungle
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Malurians reach Earth, only to find it is an impenetrable jungle and give up. They are only an inch tall.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #48 (August 1966)
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The Lanolites
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain BZXQW; Lieutenant PRZQX; Alrauna; Lipton the Reporter
- Synopsis
- Three aliens visiting Earth from the planet Lanolin maintain they have a mathematical formula to explain everything. Then their secretary, Alrauna, runs into the concept of love.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #28 (September 1963)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; horse racing; kissing; predictions
Girl Whirl
Space Ranger Kaz A. Nova / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; romance; science fiction
- Characters
- Private Kaz A. Nova; Zelda; Klanko; Blips
- Synopsis
- Kaz gets involved in a love triangle with Pizzarovian robots.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #57 (October 1967)
-
- Keywords
- robots; spaceship
Planet Plight!
Mad House Shorty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Aliens from Mercury plan to invade earth, but find that the Sahara desert is much too cold for them.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #42 (September 1965)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; camels; desert; pyramids
Shrink Drink
A Mad House Maddy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A scientist creates a health formula with a drastic side-effect.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #44 (December 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Three vertical panels.
Tank Crank
A Mad House Maddy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two robot aliens mistake a gas pump for an Earth inhabitant.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #44 (December 1965)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; gas pump
Indexer Notes
Three vertical panels.
[no title indexed]
Good Guy Section / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Madhouse heroes are very colorful!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hero Sandwich
- Synopsis
- Various color/emotion related puns.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #56 (September 1967)
-
Razzle Dazzle
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Super Dazzle; Joe Slushwell; Leprechaun
- Synopsis
- A Leprechaun turns Slushwell into his hero Super Dazzle for 24 hours.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
- Keywords
- baseball; golf; leprechaun; phone booth; pizza
Rhyme Time
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #60 (April 1968)
-
Indexer Notes
Each panel is a question that can be answered with two words that rhyme.
The Cupid Caper
Super Cupid / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Super Cupid; Gladys; Gerald Gooch
- Synopsis
- Girl-hater Gerald Gooch appears to be immune to Cupid's arrows, so he dips his arrows in a super love potion.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #48 (August 1966)
-
- Keywords
- arrows; Beatles; bow; Cupid; love potion; statues; submarine sandwiches
Horse Man
Horse Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Horseman [Rodney J. Sidesaddle]; Fishface; Mary
- Synopsis
- When Fishface robs a bank, it's up to Horseman to track him down.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #49 (September 1966)
-
- Keywords
- aquarium; bank robbers; sea horse
Introducing Agent X-48
Miss X / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir ?
- Pencils
- Chic Stone (signed)
- Inks
- Chic Stone (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Agent X-48; Chief; Big Bertha; Blips
- Synopsis
- In an effort to get promoted to Agent X-1, Agent X-48 goes after Big Bertha and her gang.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #57 (October 1967)
-
- Keywords
- department stores; gossip; judo; makeup; spies; umbrella
Car Man
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Car Man; Blue Bolt (villain)
- Synopsis
- Car Man (half-man, half automobile) captures villain Blue Bolt and his Blue Thunder car.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #53 (April 1967)
-
- Keywords
- automobiles; traffic light
Indexer Notes
Script credit from the digest reprint.
Power Struggle
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Dynamo Man; The Pink Martian (host)
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket must face the electrical menace of Dynamo Man.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #28 (September 1963)
-
- Keywords
- electricity; short-circuit; Sprocket's Rocket; Washington D.C.; Washington Monument
Can a Mighty Girl (from a Small Town) Find Romance (in a Small Town)??
Mighty Chick / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Chick; Mickey Mouse (cameo); Blips; Golden Boy; Melvin
- Synopsis
- Mighty Chick searches for love.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #56 (September 1967)
-
[no title indexed]
Bad Guy Section / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mad House villains always get it -- in the end!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A Mad House villain is chased by vicious dogs.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #53 (April 1967)
-
Captain Shark
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Shark (villain); Union of Super Heroes; Captain Sprocket; Diver Jiver; Porpoise Man; Water Beetle Man
- Synopsis
- Water Beetle Man uses his brains to capture Captain Shark.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #40 (June 1965)
-
- Keywords
- electric eels; mermaids; octopus; phone booth; sawfish; sharks; underwater
Indexer Notes
Art previously thought to be Samm Schwartz.
Henchman in second panel is reading the same story.
Nonsense Zone
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Three two-panel gags: witches on radar; advice on painting Martian canals; inspector tag in a mummy case.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #29 (October 1963)
-
- Keywords
- Martian; mummy; painting; radar; witches
Indexer Notes
Three two-panel gag cartoons.
The Diamond Demon
Carbo Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Carbo Man [short for Carborundum Man]; Ruby (villain); Emerald (villain); Sapphire (villain); Union of Super Heroes; Steel Men; Sabrina the Teenage Witch (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Ruby, Emerald, and Sapphire easily defeat the efforts of the "Union of Super Heroes" to stop their crimes because the villains' bodies are made of solid gemstone, and "diamonds are the hardest substance in the world". Carborundum Man defeats the male villains "with psychology", and ends story by proposing to Sapphire.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #46 (April 1966)
-
- Keywords
- baseball; jewels
Indexer Notes
Super-hero parody introducing Carbo Man. Sapphire looks like a cross between Smurfette and Bizarro Lois Lane. The Diamond Man is colored red like a ruby. At the super-hero headquarters, one of the heroes is reading a "Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch" comic book.
[no title indexed]
Hilda's Monster Section / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In my find, you'll find only choice, top quality monster entertainment!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch
- Synopsis
- Hilda promises to never use Brand X monsters in her Monster Section.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #27 (August 1963)
-
Our Monster is Hip. Oh, Where Did We Slip?
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes, Ludwig! The most fearsome monster of all time is aobut to be made!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Dr. Krankenstein; Ludwig; Krankenstein's monster
- Synopsis
- A Frankenstein-type monster has the brain of a maniac, but the heart of a hippie.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #64 (October 1968)
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The Broom Boom!
Hilda the Witch / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch; unnamed store keeper
- Synopsis
- Hilda can't replace her broom because of the new fad of broom skiing.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #28 (September 1963)
-
- Keywords
- brooms
Everything Happens in Transylvania
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Three Transylvania-themed cartoons: a woman paints a mustache onto a painting of a woman; two women wear hats in a theater; Transylvania children are cleaned.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #41 (August 1965)
-
Stretch Strategy
Ronald the Rubber Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Ronald; Gladys; The Smasher
- Synopsis
- Ronald and Gladys try to spend time at the beach, but the Smasher keeps pestering Ronald.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #29 (October 1963)
-
- Keywords
- beach; buoy; trash can; volleyball; water-skiing
Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #8, no credits listed in this issue.
[no title indexed]
Guess Which One / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...Doesn't know it's Saturday yet.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Guess which one doesn't know it's Saturday yet, is telling the joke, is happy he didn't drop out of school, and just killed her chances of being asked out on another date.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #56 (September 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
four gag cartoons
Life In Transylvania
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A series of one panel gags comparing life in Transylvania with life in normal society.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #43 (October 1965)
-
- Keywords
- gorilla; hypnotism; snakes; sweaters; trap door; TV commercials; voodoo dolls; vulture
The Teeth Feat
The Pink Martian / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- The Pink Martian
- Synopsis
- The Pink Martian develops a toothache.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #28 (September 1963)
-
- Keywords
- hero sandwich; rocket; toothache
Professor Transistor
Hilda's Mad Lab Section / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch (host); Professor Transistor; Archie Andrews (cameo); Jughead Jones (cameo); Betty Cooper (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Professor Transistor shows off the robots he invented.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #23 (December 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Professor Transistor, who would become a recurring character in Madhouse.
The Teen-Age Machine Age
Science Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The wonders of the electronic world are put to use for teenager's in such machines as the Teachitron, Jukeboxitron, and Snack-O-Mat.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
- Keywords
- machines; teens
[no title indexed]
Guess Which One / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...Just won the sweepstakes.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Guess which one just won the sweepstakes, just spotted a relative, isn't crazy about ticker-tape parades, and will give up experimenting with electrical instruments.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #56 (September 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
four gag cartoons
Campaign Pictures Sometimes Lie
Madhouse Exposure Department / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- A. Kreep
- Synopsis
- A look at high school campaign photos and the truth behind them.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
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The Trend Setters
Mad House Ma-ads Featuring The Archies / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Fran the Fan; Dan Didit; Dippy Didit; Dick Didit; Clyde Didit; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- When Fran the Fan finds out that the Archies are going to appear at the Ma-ads concert, the Archies have to find a way to sneak past souvenir-hungry fans.
- Reprints
- from Mad House Ma-ad Freak-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #72 (January 1970)
-
Teen-Agers of the Past
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- A series of gags starring Victorian-era teens.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
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Blip Quips
Blips / cartoon / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blips
- Synopsis
- Gags and puns.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #57 (October 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
The blips also appear in the center of some pages in Girl Whirl, X-48, and Mighty Chick.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Oh, mighty wizard! Transform me from a barbarian into a gentleman!!!"]
-
1.
["Just look at these fantastic photos of my space adventures!"]
Space Section -
2.
Mr. Fix-It of the Space World
Captain Sprocket -
3.
Space Patrolman
-
4.
Jungle Bungle
-
5.
The Lanolites
-
6.
Girl Whirl
Space Ranger Kaz A. Nova -
7.
Fright Sight
A Mad House Maddy -
8.
Planet Plight!
Mad House Shorty -
9.
Shrink Drink
A Mad House Maddy -
10.
Tank Crank
A Mad House Maddy -
11.
["Madhouse heroes are very colorful!"]
Good Guy Section -
12.
Razzle Dazzle
-
13.
Rhyme Time
-
14.
The Cupid Caper
Super Cupid -
15.
Horse Man
Horse Man -
16.
Introducing Agent X-48
Miss X -
17.
Car Man
-
18.
Power Struggle
Captain Sprocket -
19.
Can a Mighty Girl (from a Small Town) Find Romance (in a Small Town)??
Mighty Chick -
20.
["Mad House villains always get it -- in the end!"]
Bad Guy Section -
21.
Captain Shark
-
22.
Nonsense Zone
-
23.
The Diamond Demon
Carbo Man -
24.
["In my find, you'll find only choice, top quality monster entertainment!"]
Hilda's Monster Section -
25.
Our Monster is Hip. Oh, Where Did We Slip?
-
26.
The Broom Boom!
Hilda the Witch -
27.
Everything Happens in Transylvania
-
28.
Stretch Strategy
Ronald the Rubber Boy -
29.
["...Doesn't know it's Saturday yet."]
Guess Which One -
30.
Life In Transylvania
-
31.
The Teeth Feat
The Pink Martian -
32.
Professor Transistor
Hilda's Mad Lab Section -
33.
The Teen-Age Machine Age
Science Dept. -
34.
["...Just won the sweepstakes."]
Guess Which One -
35.
Campaign Pictures Sometimes Lie
Madhouse Exposure Department -
36.
The Trend Setters
Mad House Ma-ads Featuring The Archies -
37.
Teen-Agers of the Past
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38.
Blip Quips
Blips
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- Peter Croome
- Aaron Gullison
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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