Archie & Friends
#97
[Newsstand]
(March 2006)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 2.25 USD; 2.65 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., Mar., Apr., May, July, Aug., Sept., Oct. and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 071896469653 97
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Archie & Friends (Archie, 1992 series) #97 [Direct Edition].
[no title indexed]
Archie & Friends / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Smith (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch those curves, Arch!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
snow; snowmobiles
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Can a Sled Be Smarter Than Archie?
Archie & Friends / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Angelo De Cesare (credited as Angelo DeCesare)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- John Lowe
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Mindy Eisman
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Dilton invents a super-fast bobsled and the guys want to enter it in a contest so they can win a spring break trip to Miami.
- Reprints
-
in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #2 (March 2011), #2 (March 2011) - in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #15 (April 2019)
-
- Keywords
- bobsleds; racing
Unvoiced
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Tania del Rio
- Pencils
- Chris Lie
- Inks
- Dan Davis
- Colors
- Jason Jensen
- Letters
- Jeff Powell
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick; Nelson Ribeiro
- Feature Logo
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Melody Valentine; Alexander Cabot III
- Synopsis
- Josie loses her voice, and is afraid that everyone will like Valerie's lead vocals better than hers.
Brain Freeze
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- Al Milgrom
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- The boys go ice fishing.
The Characters
Tomoko / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Tomoko Yoshida; Miss Grundy; Bessy [Betty Cooper]; Monica [Veronica Lodge]; Starchie [Archie Andrews]; Lughead [Jughead Jones]; Heggie [Reggie Mantle]; Milton [Dilton Doiley]; Caboose [Moose Mason]
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy advises Tomoko to write about people she knows in order to make her stories more believable, so she writes about her classmates, slightly changing their names. However, her uncle, a book publisher, laughs that her stories are more unbelievable then ever with these crazy characters.
- Reprints
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #219 (January 2012), #266 (February 2019)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Watch those curves, Arch!"]
Archie & Friends -
1.
Can a Sled Be Smarter Than Archie?
Archie & Friends -
2.
Unvoiced
Josie -
3.
Brain Freeze
Archie -
4.
The Characters
Tomoko -
5.
["Ever wonder what it would be like to meet the fine folks..."]
Editor's Notebook
This issue was modified by
- Thomas Johnson
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