Archie
#173
(June 1967)
Archie,
1959 Series
- 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
- 1967-03-21
- 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
On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I make the wildest and most colorful kites in town!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
- Keywords
- aviators' helmets; kites
Lost Weekend
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee doesn't want to get involved in any punishments in the hours before he goes on his vacation, and Archie and Reggie realize that this leaves them free to do whatever they want.
Man about Town
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie becomes a well-dressed, completely obnoxious "man about town."
- Reprints
-
in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #42 (January 1981) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #142 (June 2003)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza (Archie, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #250 (June 2014), #309 (June 2020)
-
Fare Enough
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Veronica and Reggie are going on a bus trip that's exclusively for athletes and cheerleaders. Archie tries everything he can think of, including dressing in drag, to sneak on the bus too.
- Reprints
- in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #2 (August 2012)
- in Archie's Favorite High School Comics (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Archie's final line, "Leave the driving to us," is the slogan for the Greyhound Bus company.
Using Her Head!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx protects a butterfly from Greg's net.
Take a Day... Any Day!
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- The narrator introduces us to a typical day in the lives of the five core members of the Archie gang.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["I make the wildest and most colorful kites in town!"]
Archie -
1.
Lost Weekend
Archie -
2.
Man about Town
Archie -
3.
Fare Enough
Archie -
4.
Using Her Head!
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Take a Day... Any Day!
Archie
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