(April 1973)
Archie,
1972 Series
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 7 times a year in Feb., April, June, Aug., Sept., Oct. & Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series [circular]
- Editing
- ?
Paint by Numbers
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Got your nose buried in the yearbook again, eh son? The staff did its usual great job!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Tom
- Synopsis
- The kids sacrifice their trip to Washington to buy paint and paint the school before Mr. Weatherbee has a big meeting with other principals.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #36 (June 1979) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #17 (July 1985) [with Archie logo]
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #234 (June 2007)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1.
[The Archies meet the Archies on Welch's jams and jelly glasses.]
Welch's Jelly / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Short Cut to Success
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Moose! You can't mean it! Drop out of school?--You're making a terrible mistake!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Moose Mason; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When Moose drops out of high school, Archie and Jughead visit his workplace to persuade him to return.
- Reprints
- in The Best of Archie (Putnam Publishing Group, 1980 series) (1980)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #104 (May 1991)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #84 (April 1996)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #233 (May 2007)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
- Keywords
- high-school drop-out
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1.
The Cut-Ups
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Then it's settled! Right, cats? I mean, this is what we're going to do!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead ask Mr. Weatherbee how to divide a circle into 5 equal parts.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #31 (March 1998)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #145 (January 2009), #198 (February 2014)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics-Palooza (Archie, 2014 series) ([February] 2014)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #307 (April 2020)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Jughead Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #198.
When reprinted in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1, inks are credited to Jon D'Agostino.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Archie, I will write to you about Holland since that is where I live.
Indexer Notes
Letters from Susan Raulston (1st prize) and Jeffrey Boyd (2nd prize), plus instructions on joining the Archie Club.
That Human Touch
Archie at Riverdale / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Should woes beset, and fate decree, a world both cruel and cold, we'll struggle through to victory for you, our blue and gold!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; William Weatherbee; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- The kids discover that Mr. Weatherbee had a wild streak when he was in high school.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #16 (November 1980)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #233 (May 2007)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #266 (April 2016)
- in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 2018 series) #1.
In this one story, Mr. Weatherbee's name is given as "William."
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Short Cut to Success!
Archie at Riverdale High -
1.
Paint by Numbers
Archie at Riverdale -
2.
[The Archies meet the Archies on Welch's jams and jelly glasses.]
Welch's Jelly -
3.
Short Cut to Success
Archie at Riverdale -
4.
The Cut-Ups
Archie at Riverdale -
5.
["Dear Archie, I will write to you about Holland since that is where I live."]
Archie Club News -
6.
That Human Touch
Archie at Riverdale
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- Joey Beretta
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Mike Nielsen
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