Archie
#158
(September 1965)
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November and December
- On-sale Date
- 1965-08-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tsk! Tsk! The world's in a mess!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Keywords
- beachballs; beaches; newspapers; reading; swimsuits
Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #26
The Wrong End
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- After Reggie soaks him with a water balloon, Archie has to wear Veronica's negligee while waiting for his clothes to dry.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- negligee; water balloon
in [no title indexed]
The Adventures of Patty & Andy, The Popsicle Twins; Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What gift are you going to get this time, Andy?
- Characters
- Popsicle Twins [Patty, Andy]
- Synopsis
- Patty and Andy are deciding what premiums to get with their Popsicle wrappers when they are interrupted by a baby goat.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Popsicle frozen treats.
Old Finger!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx takes up finger-painting.
- Keywords
- finger-painting
The Umbrella Man
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- A girl with the same beach umbrella as Betty's sets of a series of misunderstandings that get Archie in trouble with two jealous boyfriends.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- beach; beach ball; harpoon gun; skin diving; umbrella
[no title indexed]
Rocky and Bullwinkle; Cheerios / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Are Cheerios your favorite cereal, Bullwinkle?
- Characters
- Rocky; Bullwinkle
- Synopsis
- Bullwinkle uses his Cheerios energy to chop down a tree.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Cheerios breakfast cereal. General Mills. Appears between pages one and two of "The Umbrella Man."
The Giant of Them All Is Still the Greatest Buy in Comics!
Archie Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for Archie Annual #17 with mail-in coupon. Cost is 25 cents with free bonus of 1966 Archie Pin-up Calendar. Cover is depicted along with calendar and probable clip-art head shots of the Archie characters. Appears between pages four and five of "The Umbrella Man."
Well Worth Digging For...
How's Trix?; Trix Rabbit / advertisement / 0.75 page
- Characters
- Trix Rabbit
- Synopsis
- The Trix Rabbit digs his way to a box of Trix, but a kid in a miner's cap takes it away from him.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Trix breakfast cereal. General Mills.
[no title indexed]
Life with Archie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This might be your life
- Characters
- Archie Andrews (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Mostly text promo for Life with Archie comics.
Push Button
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Veronica covers everything in her house, including the floors, with a wax spray that makes things look shiny, but also makes them extremely slippery.
- Keywords
- aerosol can; golf shoes; wax
Archie Gets All the Brakes
Archie; Bendix Corporation / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- The Archie gang tell the benefits of riding bikes with the Bendix Automatic 2-Speed.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Bendix bicycle Automatic 2-Speed axle. Bendix Corporation, Eclipse Machine Division, Elmira, N.Y.
The Cuckoo Bird Yuks It Up!
Cuckoo Bird; Cocoa Puffs; General Mills / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Cuckoo Bird; Gramps
- Synopsis
- The Cuckoo Bird tells Gramps a bad joke about a bald man and a comb.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Cocoa Puffs breakfast cereal. General Mills.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to Beth Martin (Shreveport, La.) for article on "Famous Women in History." Second prize of $3.00 to Robin Forman (Carle Place, N.Y.) for a poem. Third prize of $2.00 to Michael Charness (Torrance, Calif.) for article on whittling. Fourth prize of $1.00 to George Scott for article on the American Bald Eagle. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Mae Padgett (Richmond, Va.) for article on raccoons.
[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.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Manufacturing Company / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now rainy days can be fun days!
- Synopsis
- On a rainy day, Bill's Dad gives him his birthday present early and sets up an indoor shooting area for his Daisy Model 26 B-B gun.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Daisy B-B Guns. Daisy Manufacturing Company, Rogers, Ark.
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0.
["Tsk! Tsk! The world's in a mess!"]
Archie -
1.
The Wrong End
Archie -
2.
["What gift are you going to get this time, Andy?"]
The Adventures of Patty & Andy, The Popsicle Twins; Popsicle -
3.
Old Finger!
Li'l Jinx -
4.
The Umbrella Man
Archie -
5.
["Are Cheerios your favorite cereal, Bullwinkle?"]
Rocky and Bullwinkle; Cheerios -
6.
The Giant of Them All Is Still the Greatest Buy in Comics!
Archie Annual -
7.
Well Worth Digging For...
How's Trix?; Trix Rabbit -
8.
["This might be your life"]
Life with Archie -
9.
Push Button
Archie -
10.
Archie Gets All the Brakes
Archie; Bendix Corporation -
11.
The Cuckoo Bird Yuks It Up!
Cuckoo Bird; Cocoa Puffs; General Mills -
12.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
13.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
14.
Off the Hook
Archie -
15.
["Now rainy days can be fun days!"]
Daisy Manufacturing Company
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jaime Weinman
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