Archie #289

(February 1980)

The Winner (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Josie; Hostess Twinkies / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Boogie Buggy (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo Jr.

Inks

Jim DeCarlo

Colors

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Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Sandra; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones (cameo); Pop Tate; Raul; Wilma

Synopsis

Archie wants to compete in a roller disco contest. Sandra asks him to be her partner, but he finds that she controls his life for the two weeks of training before the contest.

Reprints

• in Archie Americana Series (Archie, 1991 series) #5 - Best of the Eighties (2001)
• in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #3 (December 2016)
• in Best of Archie Americana (Archie, 2017 series) #3 - Bronze Age

Keywords

diet; roller disco; roller-skating

Indexer Notes

Credits from the reprint in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #3.

Don't Worry (Table of Contents: 3)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

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Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday

Synopsis

Jinx tries to prepare her father before telling him everything that happened in school today.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gee! Pop's still sticking to his crash diet...

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones

Synopsis

Two four-panel strips: Archie's father finds a way to cheat on his diet; Archie reads about a clairvoyants' convention in town.

Reprints

• from Archie daily newspaper strips

Keywords

clairvoyants; diet; newspaper; wood-working

Grundy - A Historic First (Table of Contents: 5)

Miss Grundy / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Miss Grundy (host)

Synopsis

Word puzzle solved by blackening out letters.

The Plane Truth (Table of Contents: 6)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Dan DeCarlo Jr.

Inks

Jim DeCarlo

Colors

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Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Archie needs a sticky door fixed. Veronica has a fully-equipped wood-working shop as a hobby, so she comes over and fixes the door, leaving Archie's father a little bewildered.

Reprints

• in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #16 (December 1985)
• in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #18 (April 1990)

Keywords

door; wood plane; wood-working

Indexer Notes

Fantasy Island joke with a pun on wood plane and airplane on page three. Credits from the index for the digest reprint.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Jughead with Archie Digest / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Archie 3 for $1.00 Checklist / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

The Cane Mutiny (Table of Contents: 9)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo Jr.

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

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Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis

After hurting his leg, Archie has to use a cane for a while. Veronica thinks he needs a more sophisticated outfit to go with the cane, so she takes him to her house and loans him some of Mr. Lodge's clothes. Archie looks more sophisticated, but is still a menace with his cane.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #72 (January 1986)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #141 (May 2003)
• in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #249 (April 2014)

Keywords

cane; vase

Indexer Notes

Credits from the index to the digest reprint.

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Archie Club News / letters page / 0.6 page (report information)

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typeset

Indexer Notes

Youth Day Contest winners: first prize of $6.00 to Ann Quinn (Dorchester, Mass.) and second prize of $4.00 to Neal Atchley (Maryville, Tenn.).

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Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.4 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Archie's Pin Up / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fill 'er up!

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Archie tells the gas station attendant to fill his car up, but after he pays for the gas, he doesn't have enough money left to go on a date.

Reprints

• in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #16 (December 1985)
• in Archie's Story & Game Digest Magazine (Archie, 1986 series) #19 (June 1991)
• in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #84 (June 2004)
• in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #6 (August 2014)

Keywords

gas

Indexer Notes

Though it's labeled a "pin up," it's is really a three-panel story.

Operation Imagination (Table of Contents: 13)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Mrs. Lodge

Synopsis

Archie is broke, but with Jughead's help and some imagination, he is able to turn a date with Veronica into a night on the town, complete with dinner and dancing at a disco.

Reprints

• in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #16 (December 1985)
• in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #19 (June 1990)

Keywords

basement; chauffeur; disco; hamburgers; imagination

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Star Trek: The Motion Picture / advertisement / 1 page (report information)