Pep
#293
(September 1974)
Archie,
1960 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-07-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [vertical]
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Pocket Checklist page of Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #108, July 1974.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At a rock festival we're free to leave the material world behind!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- The Pussycats [Melody; Josie; Valerie]; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Request Zest
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Jon D'Agostino ?
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; The Foxman
- Synopsis
- Reggie uses a radio call-in dedication line to cause trouble for everyone else.
Indexer Notes
"The Foxman" is a thinly-veiled parody of radio personality Wolfman Jack.
Weight and Fate
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie samples an old fashioned fortune scale.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Story & Game Digest Magazine (Archie, 1986 series) #24 (September 1992)
-
[no title indexed]
Jughead Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jughead Jones! I baked two apple pies last night
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Gladys Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead's mom is missing a pie.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #21 (October 1996)
-
Horn of Plenty
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Archie starts playing the tuba in order to join the school marching band, then shows his utter inability to play it correctly.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #111 (November 1999)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #28 (August 2013)
-
Cluck Cluck
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse; Gigi
- Synopsis
- Charley gets a job delivering take-out chicken in a chicken costume. Jinx gets an idea on how he can deliver his routes faster.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #114 (October 2007)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #229 (November 2012)
-
Sting Fling
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Ethel Muggs; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty's home remedy for sunburn suddenly makes Ethel attractive to Jughead.
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #96 (September 2003), #152 (September 2009)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #101 (September 2020)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["At a rock festival we're free to leave the material world behind!"]
Archie -
1.
Request Zest
Archie and the Gang -
2.
Weight and Fate
Archie -
3.
["Jughead Jones! I baked two apple pies last night"]
Jughead Pin Up -
4.
Horn of Plenty
Archie -
5.
Cluck Cluck
Li'l Jinx -
6.
Sting Fling
Archie and the Gang
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Igor Dybzinski
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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