Archie
#287
(December 1979)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-10-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000696512
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from Comic Reader #173.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, what's the saddest thing you ever read?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie has another traumatic experience with the gas pump.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- gasoline; jalopies; reading
in Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #215
The Star
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie is desperate to take Veronica to a dance where Reggie is squiring a professional actress, in order to try to be as impressive as he fears Reggie will be.
Stop, Look and Glisten
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
- Synopsis
- Jinx misinterprets her father's demands.
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You’ll find that’s a very fine pair of binoculars for forty-five dollars, sir!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Jughead spots a bargain. Moose gets a lesson.
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
These are reprints of two late seventies era Archie syndicated newspaper strips.
Getting Your Letter
Archie / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Maze puzzle.
The Skin Game
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead decide to market the mud from their fishing hole as a beauty treatment.
A Fuel Fool
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Sick of paying through the nose for gasoline, Archie goes to Dilton in hopes the genius can solve his fuel problems.
Reserve Decision
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Smithers the butler
- Synopsis
- With Smithers' help, Archie tumbles to the scam Reggie is using to impress Veronica.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Archie, what's the saddest thing you ever read?"]
Archie -
1.
The Star
Archie -
2.
Stop, Look and Glisten
Li'l Jinx -
3.
["You’ll find that’s a very fine pair of binoculars for forty-five dollars, sir!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
4.
Getting Your Letter
Archie -
5.
The Skin Game
Archie -
6.
A Fuel Fool
Archie -
7.
Reserve Decision
Archie
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