Archie
#231
(December 1973)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, August, Sep., Nov., and Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1973-10-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [circular]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
With this issue, Harry Lucey returns as primary artist after being replaced by Dan DeCarlo for most of the two previous issues. On-sale date from 1974 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dilton has a head for figures!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Dilton Doily; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
- Reprints
- Keywords
- chalk boards; classrooms; mathematics
in Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Annual Digest #50
Age Before Duty
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Betty Lou Clutchgrapple
- Synopsis
- All the boys are crazy for the new substitute teacher, Miss Betty Lou Clutchgrapple, a gorgeous miniskirted young blonde who prefers to tell funny stories instead of teaching anything.
Ecology Logic?
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx says it's her environmental duty not to take a bath.
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Jog, Jog, Joggin' Along
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hot Dog; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead take up jogging.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #62 (November 1992), #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), #329 (June 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #250.
Apple of My Eye
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica bakes Archie an apple pie, and when it turns out to be good, he infuriates Veronica by asking her what she did wrong.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #34 (September 1979)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #27 (October 1991)
-
Miss Beazley Gets the Bird
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (sourced)
- Pencils
- Harry Lucey (sourced)
- Inks
- Harry Lucey (sourced)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (sourced)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Miss Beazly!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Miss Beazly; Jughead Jones; Professor Flutesnoot; Waldo Weatherbee; Colonel Sturdley
- Synopsis
- Archie brings a bucket of moldy fried chicken into the school, leading Mr. Weatherbee to complain to the founder of Colonel Sturdley's Southern Fried Chicken.
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #35 (1979)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #80 (January 2004)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #33 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer credited Chic Stone with inks.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Dilton has a head for figures!"]
Archie -
1.
Age Before Duty
Archie -
2.
Ecology Logic?
Li'l Jinx -
3.
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Jog, Jog, Joggin' Along
Archie -
4.
Apple of My Eye
Archie -
5.
Miss Beazley Gets the Bird
Archie
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- Joey Beretta
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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