Archie
#150
(November 1964)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year in February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1964-10-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We just arrived and already Archie has the ball rolling!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Keywords
- bowling; bowling alleys; bowling bags
Cruise Director
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Hiram Lodge; Chip (a boat mechanic)
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge has Archie take a borrowed boat back to the mechanic and exchange it for Mr. Lodge's boat, which was being repaired. But Archie isn't sure about the boats' controls and ends up causing more damage.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #200 (October 1972) - in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #19 (August 1981)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #18 (September 1985)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #330
-
- Keywords
- canoe; guitar; speedboat
Indexer Notes
Archie is singing "I wanna hold your hand" (a Beatles song) in the splash panel.
[no title indexed]
Bendix Corporation / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You called for a piano tuner?
- Synopsis
- A boy calls a piano tuner to help him fix all the cables on his bicycle. The piano tuner recommends replacing the cables with the Bendix automatic bike axle.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Bendix Automatic bicycle axles. The Bendix Corporation, Eclipse Machine Division, Elmira, N.Y. Art style is influenced by Peter Max.
A Gasser
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Joe (a gas station attendant)
- Synopsis
- Archie gets Joe to give him some gas quick as Archie is late to a ball game. But Archie comes back when he forgets his stamps.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #200 (October 1972)
-
- Keywords
- gas station; trading stamps
That's What Counts
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- One boy is "it" in a game of hide and seek because he can count higher than anyone else.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #52 (October 2000)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #271 (August 2019)
-
The Acid Test
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Professor Flutesnoot; Waldo Weatherbee; Mr. Johnson (the janitor); Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Archie accidentally drops a beaker of acid that eats through the chemistry floor. Banned from the chemistry lab, Mr. Weatherbee asks Archie to polish his chair and desk. But Archie accidentally adds a small test tube of acid into the varnish, which eats away the varnish brushes as well as the legs of Mr. Weatherbee's desk.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #208 (March 1973)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #37 (March 1980)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #225 (March 2012), #295 (February 2019)
-
- Keywords
- acid; chemistry; turpentine; varnish
Dig This Crazy Offer!
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Indexer Notes
Promo for subscriptions to Archie's Pals 'n' Gals, with mail-in coupon. Four issues for $1.00 plus a bonus issue.
Spellbound
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- When Archie leaves Betty and Jughead to spend time with Veronica, the two jilted friends curse the two lovers. Unbeknownst to all of them, the curses come true.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #2 (October 1973)
-
- Keywords
- curse; Indian dance; magic
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to James Busby (Oyster Bay, N.Y.) for article on having mice for pets. Second prize of $3.00 to Zena Bruinsma (Holland, Mich.) for her story of immigrating from the Netherlands to Michigan. Third prize of $2.00 to Debra Rochtaschel (Rochester, N.Y.) for five jokes. The third prize article on the second page has the same border used on the Archie's Madhouse covers.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Harris (a neighbor of the Lodges)
- Synopsis
- Archie picks some of Mr. Lodge's prize roses as a gift to Veronica. To make up for the blunder, Archie then digs up one of the Lodges' neighbor's rose bushes and gives it to Mr. Lodge as a replacement.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bouquet; roses
Indexer Notes
The title comes from the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the 1959 Broadway musical "Gypsy."
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["We just arrived and already Archie has the ball rolling!"]
Archie -
1.
Cruise Director
Archie -
2.
["You called for a piano tuner?"]
Bendix Corporation -
3.
A Gasser
Archie -
4.
That's What Counts
Li'l Jinx -
5.
The Acid Test
Archie -
6.
Dig This Crazy Offer!
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals -
7.
Spellbound
Archie -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
10.
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Archie
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- Katy Hayhurst
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
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- Gregg Whitmore
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