Archie Comics #87

(July-August 1957)

How Tee & Eff Helped the Hometown Sluggers Win! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Tee & Eff; Tastee-Freez / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Two For One (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Melvin

Synopsis

Melvin, the new kid, gets Jughead to introduce him to Veronica. He asks her for a date and she accepts. Later she realizes that she'll need to stay away from Archie when she goes on her date with Melvin, so she goes to the museum, thinking Archie would never go there. Meanwhile Archie asks Jughead where Veronica is, and he tells him the museum, figuring Veronica would never go there.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

black eyes; date; jealousy; mummy; museum; sarcophagus

Hat's My Girl (Table of Contents: 3)

Veronica / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Betty Cooper

Synopsis

Veronica makes her own hat. While going to show it to her father, she stumbles over a bench and upsets the lamp. The lampshade ends up on her head and her father compliments her on it, at the same time placing the hat Veronica made on the lamp.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

hat; lampshade; sewing

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Archie Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

Father Glows Best (Table of Contents: 5)

Archie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harry Lucey

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Homer Mason

Synopsis

Archie's father thinks he's spending too much time at Veronica's and makes him stay home. An old friend of Fred's drops by unexpectedly and reveals that Fred won Mary by spending all his time at her house.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Weighed Down! (Table of Contents: 6)

Moose / comic story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Tom Moore ?

Pencils

Tom Moore

Inks

Tom Moore

Colors

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Letters

Tom Moore

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Moose Mason; Midge Klump

Synopsis

Midge is upset because a penny scale said she was getting fat. Moose responds by destroying the scale.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

insult; scale; weight

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Midge / comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Tom Moore ?

Pencils

Tom Moore

Inks

Tom Moore

Colors

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Letters

Tom Moore

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gee, Midge you look sweet enough to eat!

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Moose Mason; Midge Klump

Synopsis

Moose pays Midge a complement. Midge uses it to suggest they go out to eat.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

compliment; date

Indexer Notes

The first appearance of the Midge [Archie] feature?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Archie Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Sentence Stricture (Table of Contents: 9)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harry Lucey

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

The boys are speaking in "reverse English" (example: "Trying past you to sneak he was!") and Mr. Weatherbee is refusing to pay attention to them unless they use proper grammar.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

cymbals; detentions; grammar

George Mikan Teaches Tommy the Hook Shot! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

U. S. Keds; United States Rubber Company / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1.4 pages (report information)

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

First prize of $5.00 to Gloria Levy (Bronx, N.Y.) for paragraph on collecting funds for the Blind Institute. Second prize of $3.00 to Ruth Anson (Chicago, Ill.) for paragraph about an upcoming science fair. Third prize of $2.00 to Carol Wade (Morrilton, Ark.) for paragraph about her hobby of making artificial flowers. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Paulette Passalacqua (Shaker Heights, Ohio) for paragraph on helping the Red Cross. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Barbara Steiner (Jamaica, N.Y.) for a paragraph on her school's Student Council. Sixth prize of $1.00 to Martha Cook (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for paragraph on her hobby of collecting post cards. Seventh prize of $1.00 to MaryRita Sullivan (Arlington, Mass) for paragraph on her hobby of collecting old books. Eighth prize of $1.00 to Terry Kelliher (West Hempstead, N.Y.) for two jokes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.6 page (report information)

Phone for All (Table of Contents: 13)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Bill Vigoda ?

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Mr. Snitt

Synopsis

Veronica sets up the telephone so she can pretend to take calls from other boys and make Archie jealous. Archie gets mad and insults the next caller, who happens to be a legitimate caller with business with Mr. Lodge.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #6 (June 1974)

Keywords

telephone