Archie
#239
(November 1974)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, August, Sept., Nov., and Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1974-08-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [vertical]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1976 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why don't you go outside and patch your tent?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
- Keywords
- camping; rain; tents
Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie... Archie Andrews Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #23.
Sandman
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eeyah! Let's hit the beaches, men! What a day for ye olde youthful horseplay and hijinks!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- The pain of walking on a hot beach with bare feet leads Archie into even worse disasters as he tries to get some relief for his aching tootsies.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #35 (1979) - in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #266 (September 2010)
- in Archie Comics Super Special (Archie, 2012 series) #3 (July 2013)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #280 (August 2017)
-
Attractive Nuisance
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That big thing is a magnet?
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie brings a big magnet to the beach, and while he's arguing with Jughead about who the "they" are in the term "they say," everyone's metal possessions are attracted to the magnet.
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #35 (1979)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #54 (October 1998), #105 (September 2004)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #265 (August 2010)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #80 (September 2018)
-
- Keywords
- magnet
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 0.5 page
- Feature Logo
Archie Club News- Characters
- Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from: Joy Skelton ($6.00 1st prize); Deirdre Barry ($4.00 2nd prize); Kay Piszor ($3.00 3rd prize).
Cool Cookie
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You are out of your tree, man! It's hot and muggy and steaming!... And look at how you're dressed up!
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie has to attend an outdoor party at the Lodges' on a "hot, muggy and steaming" night, and finds that all the guests except Veronica are just as miserable in the heat as he is.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #24 (September 1979)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #266 (September 2010)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Hoopla (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #279 (July 2017)
-
Hat Trick
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A person could burn to a crisp under this blazing sun!
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- On a hot day at the beach, Archie wears a huge sombrero to get some shade, and demonstrates that the hat can also be used to fight crime.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #24 (September 1979)
- in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #5 (February 2017)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Why don't you go outside and patch your tent?"]
Archie -
1.
["Famous name prizes or cash"]
Olympic Sales / Olympia Sales Cards -
2.
Sandman
Archie -
3.
["Meet Snoopy, my new pencil pal!"]
Kenner Toys -
4.
["Shazam! It's socko Saturday on CBS"]
CBS Saturday Cartoons -
5.
["Magic cards"]
Honor House Products -
6.
Attractive Nuisance
Archie -
7.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
8.
["Be an Archie Club member eligible to win cast prizes and a big byline in an Archie Series Comic!"]
Archie Club -
9.
Cool Cookie
Archie -
10.
["Super tee shirts"]
Canyon House Iron-on Transfers -
11.
["Free album of fast selling personalized Christmas cards to show how easy it is to make money and earn prizes!"]
Youth Opportunity Sales Club -
12.
["Here's Love Spray Perfume"]
Blair Quality Products -
13.
["Make excellent extra cash..."]
Engravaplates Social Security Cards -
14.
Hat Trick
Archie -
15.
["The nuttiest, most fantastic offer ever!"]
Super Values Products -
16.
["Hey, kids! Stay in the groove with Archie Series comics!"]
Archie Comics -
17.
["The Winner. Built by Converse. Just for Sears."]
Converse Shoes; Sears, Roebuck and Co. Shoes -
18.
["Do you need extra money?"]
Cheerful Card / Cheerful House Cards and Stationery
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- Steve Coates
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- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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