Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #277

(May 2017)

[Road to Riverdale] (Table of Contents: 1)

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House ad for the Road to Riverdale collection.

Pinarchio! (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Dan Parent (credited)

Pencils

Dan Parent (credited)

Inks

Bob Smith (credited)

Colors

Glenn Whitmore (credited)

Letters

Jack Morelli (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Pinarchio [Archie Andrews]; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Blue Fairy [Betty Cooper]; Jugocchio [Jughead Jones]

Synopsis

A spoof of the story Pinocchio, with Hiram Lodge creating a marionette named Pinarchio that comes to life.

Keywords

marionette

Tips and All (Table of Contents: 3)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Ruth (credited)

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Samm Schwartz (credited)

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Samm Schwartz (credited)

Colors

Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Samm Schwartz (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Stan Karlin; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Coach Kleats

Synopsis

When Archie hears that one of the guys in town used to play major league baseball, he asks him for some tips.

Reprints

• from Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #52 (October 1987)

Keywords

baseball

Drive By Knight (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Pellowski (credited)

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Stan Goldberg (credited)

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Bob Smith (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Tyler

Synopsis

Archie refuses to use directions to get to Tyler's party and gets lost.

Reprints

• from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #482 (April 1999)

A Date with Fate! (Table of Contents: 5)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Mike Pellowski (credited)

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Tim Kennedy (credited)

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Mike Esposito (credited)

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humor; teen

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Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews

Synopsis

Betty and Archie decide they've been seeing a lot of each other so break a date to spend some time apart. They both end up at the local mall and keep running into each other. They run into each other so many times they decide to have lunch together.

Reprints

• from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #187 (October 1990)

Keywords

mall

Doin' Home Work (Table of Contents: 6)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Greg Crosby (credited)

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Stan Goldberg (credited)

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Bob Smith (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

humor; teen

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Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones

Synopsis

Archie needs to study.

Reprints

• from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #535 (July 2003)

Career Sphere (Table of Contents: 7)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

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Tim Kennedy (credited)

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Ken Selig (credited)

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Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Jack Morelli (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Ms. Burble

Synopsis

Archie talks to his guidance counselor about what he wants to do when he grows up.

Reprints

• from Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #217 (May 2011)

Keywords

pyramid; Sphinx

[The Boys Are Back!] (Table of Contents: 8)

Diamond Select; MiniMates / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Ad for Ghostbusters mini-mates.

Strike Strategy (Table of Contents: 9)

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humor; teen

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Archie; Veronica; Caroline

Synopsis

Archie shows Veronica the baseball team's pitching machine. When he tries to make time with Caroline, Veronica turns the machine on him.

Reprints

• from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #107 (December 1966)

Keywords

baseball; sports

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Archie's SuperTeens / illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Fernando Ruiz (signed)

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Bob Smith (signed)

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Pureheart the Powerful [Archie Andrews]; Captain Hero [Jughead Jones]; Superteen [Betty Cooper]; Evilheart [Reggie Mantle]

Indexer Notes

Illustration used as the title page for the next section featuring Super Teens reprints.

Knack of Time (Table of Contents: 11)

Archie as Captain Pureheart / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle (credited)

Pencils

Bill Vigoda (credited)

Inks

Mario Acquaviva (credited)

Colors

Sal Contrera (credited)

Letters

Mario Acquaviva (credited)

Genre

humor; superhero; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews [as Captain Pureheart]; Reggie Mantle [as Evilheart]; Veronica Lodge; Time Wizard

Synopsis

Pureheart, Evilheart and Veronica take a trip through time with the dastardly but incompetent Time Wizard, whose time-travel box keeps sending them all to the wrong era in history.

Reprints

• from Archie as Capt. Pureheart (Archie, 1967 series) #4 (May 1967)

Keywords

abominable snowman; colonial America; dinosaur; Egypt; knights; pirate; Salem MA; time travel; walk the plank

Postage Due (Table of Contents: 12)

Archie as Captain Pureheart / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle (credited)

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Dan DeCarlo (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

Colors

Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

humor; superhero; teen

Characters

Captain Pureheart [Archie Andrews]; Unnamed villain; Two unnamed postal employees; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge

Synopsis

An unnamed villain robs the post office, poses as a mailman and uses a special perfume in an attempt to get Mr. Lodge and fellow business associates to lose their jobs after an invention of theirs caused this villain to lose his job. Archie becomes Captain Pureheart, and through various blunders, captures the villain and saves the day.

Reprints

• from Archie as Capt. Pureheart (Archie, 1967 series) #6 (November 1967)

Indexer Notes

This is a two-part story.

[Archie #18] (Table of Contents: 13)

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House ad for Archie #18.

[Riverdale #1] (Table of Contents: 14)

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House ad for Riverdale #1.

Jog Agog (Table of Contents: 15)

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Veronica can't jog with Archie because their jogging suits clash.

Reprints

• from Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #52 (1988)

Keywords

jogging

Mail Travail (Table of Contents: 16)

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Archie tells Veronica about the new postal worker.

Reprints

• from Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #52 (1988)

[Jughead #13] (Table of Contents: 17)

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House ad for Jughead #13.

Alone At Last (Table of Contents: 18)

Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Gladir

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Stan Goldberg

Inks

Matt Maley

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Barry Grossman

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Bill Yoshida

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Archie can't seem to keep Veronica away from other men.

Reprints

• from Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1987 series) #64 (June 1993)

Indexer Notes

Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.

[Little Archie and His Pals] (Table of Contents: 19)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Is this Armand A. Legg at "Ski High Motors"? This is Archie Andrews!

Genre

teen

Characters

Armand A. Legg; Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews

Synopsis

Archie calls the dealer about a problem with his father's new car.

Reprints

• from Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #11 (November 1975)

Bounce Back Talk (Table of Contents: 21)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Pellowski (credited)

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Tim Kennedy (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

Colors

Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Vickie Williams (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Veronica thinks a kid is wasting his time bouncing a ball off a wall, but Archie explains he used to do the same thing and think about various things while doing it.

Reprints

• from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #142 (June 2003)

Fair Is Fair (Table of Contents: 22)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Al Hartley (credited)

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Al Hartley (credited)

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Jon D'Agostino (credited)

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Jon D'Agostino (credited)

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Mr. Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews

Synopsis

Mr. Lodge is upset because Archie spends too much time in his house.

Reprints

• from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #46 (June 1968)

Video Strategy (Table of Contents: 23)

Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

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Howard Bender (credited)

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Henry Scarpelli (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Miss Beazly; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

Archie imagines what it would be like if his life was a video game.

Reprints

• from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #284 (May 1991)

Keywords

video games

Ground Game (Table of Contents: 24)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Pellowski (credited)

Pencils

Tim Kennedy (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

Colors

Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Vickie Williams (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

Fred and Archie dig a garden.

Reprints

• from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #141 (May 2003)

Plant Problems (Table of Contents: 25)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

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Stan Goldberg (credited)

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Henry Scarpelli (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Hiram Lodge

Synopsis

Archie talks to Veronica's plant and Reggie tries to trick him into thinking the plant talked back.

Reprints

• from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #49 (July 1976)

Big Blow-Up (Table of Contents: 26)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

Pencils

Samm Schwartz (credited)

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Samm Schwartz (credited)

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Samm Schwartz (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Andy

Synopsis

Archie finds a note that was tied to a balloon from a class trying to see how far their balloons will travel before they are found.

Reprints

• from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #273 (January 1973)

Skateboard Bummer (Table of Contents: 27)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

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Chic Stone (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Smithers; Winfield

Synopsis

Winfield is unsure about giving his business to Mr. Lodge, fearing Mr. Lodge can't connect with teenagers because of his age. An accident with Archie's skateboard convinces Winfield that Mr. Lodge can handle the youth market.

Reprints

• from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #60 (September 1977)

Keywords

skateboard

A Cheap Date Contest! (Table of Contents: 28)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

Pencils

Tim Kennedy (credited)

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Bob Smith (credited)

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Barry Grossman (credited)

Letters

Phil Felix (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

The local paper is having a "Cheap Date" contest and Archie takes Betty on a date in an attempt to win the contest.

Reprints

• from Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #252 (May 2009)

Indexer Notes

This is a sequel of sorts to an earlier Archie story where Betty won a Cheap Date contest sponsored by the paper.

Reach Out and Fool Someone (Table of Contents: 29)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Fernando Ruiz (credited)

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Fernando Ruiz (credited)

Inks

Al Nickerson (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Both Betty and Veronica pose as telemarketers trying to get Archie to change his phone service.

Reprints

• from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #134 (July 2002)

Keywords

telemarketer

The Times Are a-Changin' (Table of Contents: 30)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

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Al Milgrom (credited)

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Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Artie Andrews; Professor Flutesnoot; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews

Synopsis

Archie's grandfather, Artie, visits Riverdale High and is surprised at all the progressive changes that have been made.

Reprints

• from Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #239 (January 2008)

Slow Burn (Table of Contents: 31)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir (credited)

Pencils

Bob White (credited)

Inks

Jon D'Agostino (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Miss Grundy

Synopsis

Archie claims to have a bad sunburn as an excuse for not doing his homework.

Reprints

• from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #13 (April 1971)

Archie's Lotsa Yocks Puzzle!! (Table of Contents: 32)

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Archie Andrews

Indexer Notes

Unscramble the words puzzle.

Mr. Clean (Table of Contents: 33)

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Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy

Synopsis

Miss Grundy catches Archie sleeping in class.

Reprints

• from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #134 (March 1969)

[Betty and Veronica by Rachel Antonoff] (Table of Contents: 34)

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Ad for a clothing line inspired by Betty and Veronica.

Talent Fight (Table of Contents: 35)

The Little Archies / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Dexter Taylor (credited)

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Dexter Taylor (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

children

Characters

Little Betty; Little Veronica; Little Archie; Little Jughead; Little Reggie; Fangs Fogerty

Synopsis

The Little Archies win a talent contest with a humorous music act.

Reprints

• from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #56 (November 1969)

Flower Power (Table of Contents: 36)

Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Dexter Taylor (credited)

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Dexter Taylor (credited)

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Ken Selig (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

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Little Archie; Little Betty; Little Reggie; Little Veronica; Hiram Lodge

Synopsis

Trying to outdo Little Archie, Little Reggie takes a bouquet of flowers to Little Veronica but unknown to him they are really poison ivy.

Keywords

poison ivy

A Dusty Destiny (Table of Contents: 37)

Little Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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teen

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Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Little Archie; Little Jughead

Synopsis

Little Archie and Little Jughead accidentally cover Mr. Weatherbee in powdered charcoal.

Reprints

• from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #141 (May 2003)

[20% off all Archie Comics] (Table of Contents: 38)

Midtown Comics / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Ad for Midtown Comics, a comic shop in New York City.

Neat Feat (Table of Contents: 39)

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humor

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Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews

Synopsis

Archie is oblivious to noise when studying.

Reprints

• from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #365 (March 1989)

[Graphic Novel Super Store] (Table of Contents: 40)

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Race Ace (Table of Contents: 41)

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones

Synopsis

Archie wears a race suit to rind an amusement park ride.

Reprints

• from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #266 (March 1980)

[Double Digest Bundle Pack] (Table of Contents: 42)

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Base Bawl (Table of Contents: 43)

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Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats

Synopsis

Archie drops a fly ball.

Reprints

• from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #249 (October 1978)

Keywords

baseball

[Welcome to the new Archie Comics] (Table of Contents: 44)

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Double Trouble (Table of Contents: 45)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Fernando Ruiz (credited)

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Fernando Ruiz (credited)

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Rudy Lapick (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

humor

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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Sharon Taylor; Karen Taylor

Synopsis

Archie has a date with Sharon Taylor and Reggie has a date with her twin sister Karen Taylor. Things get confusing when they are both at the same restaurant.

Reprints

• from Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #66 (June 1995)

Keywords

twins

Wrong Number (Table of Contents: 46)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Pellowski (credited)

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Stan Goldberg (credited)

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Mike Esposito (credited)

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Bill Yoshida (credited)

Genre

teen

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

An inter-dimensional delivery service accidentally delivers to the Andrews house an answering machine from the future.

Reprints

• from Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #139 (March 1996)

[Subscribe to all your favorite comics double digests...] (Table of Contents: 47)

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[Try these new Archie comics digests!] (Table of Contents: 48)

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House ad for other Archie digests on sale roughly the same time as this digest.

[Read it all on the Archie App.] (Table of Contents: 49)

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[Riverdale] (Table of Contents: 50)

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