Pep #394

(May 1984)

Vidiocy (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

Stan Goldberg

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

The Archies [Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle]; Dilton Doily

Synopsis

The Archies try to make a music video for NTV.

Rain Refrain (Table of Contents: 2)

Jughead / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

Chic Stone

Inks

?

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate

Synopsis

Jughead makes good on a promise from Archie.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #39 (March 1989)

Great Literature Match-Up! (Table of Contents: 3)

Archie's Puzzle Page / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Rod Ollerenshaw

Pencils

Rod Ollerenshaw

Inks

Rod Ollerenshaw

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Rod Ollerenshaw

Genre

teen

Characters

Archie Andrews

Synopsis

A puzzle involving literary characters and authors.

Episode 16: Wards a Whammy, or "When Diplomacy Fails, Fire Works" (Table of Contents: 4)

Marvelous Maureen / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Lori Walls

Pencils

Lori Walls (signed)

Inks

Jon D'Agostino

Colors

Lori Walls (signed)

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

adventure; humor; science fiction

Characters

Marvelous Maureen; Wonder Blunder; Clarissa; Cecily; Repticus

Synopsis

The inept space witch Cecily threatens to put a curse on Maureen.

Lover's Lament (Table of Contents: 5)

Hot Dog / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

Stan Goldberg

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bill Yoshida

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Hot Dog; Delilah

Synopsis

Hot Dog falls in love with a cute French Poodle from a dog food commercial.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #82 (May 1989)

The Noose Behind the Nightly News, or It Was a Real Hang Up (Table of Contents: 6)

Wanda Wunderbuss / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Bolling (signed)

Pencils

Bob Bolling (signed)

Inks

Bob Bolling (signed)

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Bob Bolling

Genre

humor

Characters

Wanda Wunderbuss; Gary Grimlove; P.R. Picker

Synopsis

The story of Wanda Wunderbuss, an anchorwoman for the NIT Nightly News. Secretly engaged to the handsome but dumb co-anchor, Gary Grimlove, Wanda begins to wonder why she's constantly sent out on dangerous assignments in foreign countries while Gary is given all the cushy jobs. When she's finally had enough of the unequal treatment, she hits Gary, who self-destructs: he was a robot created by NIT to be the perfect pretty, bland anchorman. Wanda takes the loss of her fiancé in stride, and threatens to reveal NIT's secret unless she is allowed to pick her own assignments and her own co-anchor.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #81 (March 1989)

Indexer Notes

This strange satirical story was a pilot for a series that never happened; the title page proclaims "introducing Wanda Wunderbuss!" but she never appeared again.

At one point Wanda refers to herself as "Wunderbust." Most appearances of the name "Wunderbuss" have the last "s" looking slightly different from the other letters. It appears that "Wunderbust" was changed for being too suggestive, but one mention of the original name slipped through.