Archie
#418
[Direct]
(December 1993)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Archie, I knew you wouldn't forget about taking ME to the dance!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- It's dance night and Archie apparently forgot he asked both Betty and Veronica to go with him.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- fashion
in 
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie (1959 series) #418 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/105/w100/105258.jpg?-3156821434339694198)
Heaven Scent
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead plan to have a final barbecue before it's too cold. Events, however, conspire against them.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #203 (December 2009) - in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #282 (October 2017)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Festival (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Man with a Horn
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Waldo Weatherbee; Chuck Clayton; Phil Harmonic; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Archie has ambitions to learn to play the trumpet, but his tin ear gets in the way.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #146 (November 2003), #203 (December 2009)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #54 (January 2016)
-
Bicycle Safety
Archie and Friends / public service announcement / 1 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs
- Synopsis
- Archie and the gang demonstrate safe bike riding practices.
Indexer Notes
At the bottom of the page is a contest blurb, soliciting bicycle safety tips with a chance to win a Huffy bicycle. Page may have been co-sponsored by Huffy.
Bad Hair Day
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited as Stan G.)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Midge expresses an interest in hair styling. Reggie offers to let her cut his hair as a way to worm his way into her affections.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #146 (November 2003)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #255 (November 2014)
-
Squirrely Tale
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to help Betty and her mom chase a squirrel out of the Cooper's attic.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #146 (November 2003)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Celebration (Archie, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #254 (October 2014), #314 (December 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Lara Li Aliasia writes about Piranhas.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Oh, Archie, I knew you wouldn't forget about taking ME to the dance!"]
Archie -
1.
Heaven Scent
Archie -
2.
["Archie trading card offer"]
-
3.
["Archie lucky 13 offer"]
-
4.
Man with a Horn
Archie -
5.
Bicycle Safety
Archie and Friends -
6.
Bad Hair Day
Archie -
7.
["Archie top ten subscription offer"]
-
8.
["Multi-Issue subscription offer"]
-
9.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook -
10.
Squirrely Tale
Archie -
11.
["Sonic free card offer"]
-
12.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News
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