Archie
#103
(August 1959)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year in February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1959-06-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (uncredited)
Issue Notes
Harry Shorten had been listed as editor of this issue; however he left Archie prior to any 1959 issue. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come on in, Archie! You're missing all the fun!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
- Reprints
-
in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #255 (November 2014)
-
- Keywords
- kissing; lipstick; lovers' hearts
Indexer Notes
Redrawn from Laugh Comics #62.
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #19
Pool Sharks
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead keep causing Mr. Lodge to have accidents around the pool.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #2 (September 1975)
- in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #4 (October 1982)
- in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #[1] (August 2011)
- in Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
- in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #2 (November 2016)
-
- Keywords
- bird bath; diving board; painting; swimming pool
"Lil" Bit of Knowledge
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica's four-year-old cousin can already spell her name forwards and backwards.
Fancy Finance
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Jughead auctions off his allowance to have more money to buy hamburgers.
- Keywords
- allowance; auction; hamburgers
Double Trouble Cross!
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Midge Klump; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Reggie spoils Moose's surprise party by telling Moose that he's seen Midge with Archie.
- Reprints
- in Reggie's Revenge! (Archie, 1994 series) #1 (Spring 1994)
- in Archie: The Best of Samm Schwartz (IDW, 2011 series) #1 (September 2011)
- in Archie Showcase Digest (Archie, 2020 series) #1 (September 2020)
-
- Keywords
- birthday; cake; jealousy; surprise party
Indexer Notes
credits taken from reprint
Two Bees or Lots of Bees!
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- When he sees a beehive, Moose tries to figure out which one is the queen bee
- Keywords
- bees
Snakes Alive!
Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Reggie picks up a stick to hit a snake, but the stick turns out to be a snake.
- Keywords
- snake
The Price Is Right!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Jinx thinks she should only pay half-price for viewing the moon through a telescope because it was only a half-moon.
- Reprints
- in Reggie (Archie, 1963 series) #17 (August 1965)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #18 (January 1977)
-
- Keywords
- moon; telescope
Bound to Agree
Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Reggie lends Archie five dollars on the condition that Archie won't ask Veronica out until he's repaid the loan.
- Reprints
- in Reggie (Archie, 1963 series) #18 (November 1965)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #5 (November 1974)
-
- Keywords
- loan; rope
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to Phil Chappell (Orange, Va.) who is handicapped and has an audio link to his school room. Second prize of $3.00 to Phyllis Hill (Agana, Guam) for article on Guam. Third prize of $2.00 to Kay Wilson (Clarion, Pa.) for three jokes. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Lorraine Bova (Elmhurst, L. I., N.Y.) for article on first postage stamps. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Beverly Butterfield (Vineyard Town, Jamaica) for article on elephants.
Memory Lame
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones]; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie forgets that he has a date with Veronica, even though she specifically tells him not to forget. He fakes amnesia to cover up his goof.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #13 (March 1976)
-
- Keywords
- amnesia; memory
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Come on in, Archie! You're missing all the fun!"]
Archie -
1.
Pool Sharks
Archie -
2.
"Lil" Bit of Knowledge
Betty and Veronica -
3.
Fancy Finance
Jughead -
4.
Double Trouble Cross!
Archie -
5.
Two Bees or Lots of Bees!
Archie -
6.
Snakes Alive!
Reggie -
7.
Top Value in Comics
Archie Annual -
8.
The Price Is Right!
Li'l Jinx -
9.
Bound to Agree
Archie -
10.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
11.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
12.
Memory Lame
Archie
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- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Kopman
- Lou Mazzella
- Enrico Menin
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Gregg Whitmore
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